South Africa’s Department of Tourism has asked tourism enterprises to take part in the current Green Tourism Incentive Programme (GTIP) whose objective is to encourage and support private sector enterprises to adopt responsible tourism practices.
The application window is open until the end of next February
Through grant funding, the GTIP assists private-sector tourism enterprises in reducing the cost of investing in energy and water-efficient solutions, while increasing their competitiveness, profitability and operational sustainability in the long term.
“This is a wonderful and worthwhile opportunity for any establishment.
Currently, it helps a lot with load-shedding and enables us to give a proper service to our clients,” said Cullinan Diamond Lodge’s Louw Allan.
The programme is managed by the Industrial Development Corporation on behalf of the Department of Tourism.
The GTIP broadly offers qualifying tourism enterprises the full cost for a new resource efficiency audit or the full cost for reviewing an existing resource efficiency audit.
It also offers grant funding to qualifying small and micro enterprises on a sliding scale from 50% to 90% of the total cost of implementing resource efficiency interventions, which is capped at R1 million.
