The Gouvernement du Québec proudly declared $8 million support

Friday, April 9, 2021

For the creation and implementation of an incubator-accelerator, the Gouvernement du Québec is quite proud to declare $8 million. Its main purpose will be to motivate tourism projects north of the 49th parallel and therefore add to the economic dynamism of the territory. In the coming few years, it will support the realization of structuring and sustainable projects. This will help to upgrade the quality of the offering of the nature-culture-adventure and improve the structuring and commercialization of tourism products.

Today, the Minister of Tourism, Caroline Proulx, and the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources and Minister responsible for the Côte-Nord region, Jonatan Julien, made the declaration. They grabbed this chance to proclaim $5 million of government support for Air Tunilik.

The incubator-accelerator will provide a help to the Nord du Québec promoters to the key stages of business plan production, financial setup and execution of their tourism projects. This support will let the entrepreneurs and local communities with tourism projects to come out, while speeding up the processes so that they materialize quickly.
This project will be advanced by three sectoral tourism associations recognized for their expertise in nature-culture tourism – the Québec Outfitters Federation, Indigenous Tourism Québec and Aventure Écotourisme Québec. The intervention model will be set up together with northern Québec partners, mainly the regional tourism associations and Indigenous communities.

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