Information for Tourism Businesses
What is Wild and Green Tourism?
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â Glasu ar 01982 552224 am ragor o wybodaeth.
This Glasu project offers grants to support green tourism projects
and enterprises in Powys which focus on innovative ways to:
- Enhance biodiversity and promote wildlife;
- Address the causes and consequences of climate change.
The project offers financial support for tourism enterprises and projects in Powys; the types of businesses eligible for grants include:
- Accommodation providers, venues and other enterprises, aspiring to be green and cater for green tourists.
e.g. Bed and Breakfast providers using renewable energy, reducing waste, using organic food, etc.
- Businesses and projects improving access to wildlife for tourists.
e.g. Habitat creation holidays, wildlife watching enterprise, etc.
- Projects employing tourist routes, trails, itineraries or packages (by foot, cycle, horse, boat, bus, train, etc) linking green accommodation, wildlife sites and other green venues.
e.g. renewable energy sites, organic farms, wildlife trails, etc
What’s on offer
- Support is available as grants for individual business and project ideas
- Funding and coordination is also available for businesses to participate in wider regional green tourism initiatives.
- Funding can cover both revenue and capital/infrastructural costs.
Particular types of activities eligible for funding could include any, or all of the following:
- Research for assessing the feasibility of new, green tourism ideas;
- Development of eco-tourism products;
- Publicity, promotion and marketing of sustainable tourism;
- Collaboration - enabling procurement cost-savings or joint marketing.
Some examples of funded regional green tourism initiatives:
Sustainable Tourism Business Scheme
Provides opportunities for accommodation providers, venues and other tourism enterprises to: gaining green quality certification; and access a regional green tourism promotional and marketing package. For more information click here.
Green Destinations — Support for local areas to become wildlife or eco destinations
Funding criteria
- Wild and Green Tourism can fund up to 74% of the total costs of a project.
- Therefore, successful applicants will need to contribute/match-fund a proportion of total project costs. The actual levels of match-funding contributions will be determined on an individual basis, but will typically be of the order of 26%.
- Match funding contributions, may be as cash or as an in-kind contribution of beneficiaries’ other resources (e.g. volunteers time).
- However, the total project costs must be fully supported by recognised evidence (receipts. timesheets, etc).