Hospitality & Tourism Business Grants
The hospitality and tourism sector can access grants for business improvement, destination development, and recovery support. Local authorities, VisitEngland/Scotland/Wales, and regional tourism bodies provide funding opportunities.
Destination Development
Regional tourism bodies and councils fund destination improvement projects. These support attractions, accommodation providers, and visitor infrastructure development.
Business Improvement
Hospitality businesses can access grants for premises improvement, accessibility, and sustainability. These often come from local authorities or business improvement districts.
Skills & Training
The sector benefits from specific skills funding including apprenticeship support and training grants to address hospitality workforce challenges.
South African Tourism & Hospitality Grants
35 grants found
Tourism Transformation Fund
The Fund aims to drive transformation in the tourism sector in a more direct and impactful manner that will not only assist black-owned tourism enterprises to expand and grow, but also catalyse the rise of a new generation of black owned youth, women and community owned tourism enterprises to take the tourism sector to new heights.
GREEN TOURISM INCENTIVE PROGRAMME
To encourage privately-owned tourism enterprises to move towards cleaner and renewable energy sources as well as the efficient utilisation of water.
Transformation Fund
The Transformation Fund provides funding for transformation projects
DTIC Women Empowerment Fund
The DTIC Women Empowerment Fund provides funding to women-owned businesses
Bakubung Fund
The NEF/BPM Enterprise and Supplier Development Fund is a funding partnership between Bakubung Platinum Mine and the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) valued at a total R3 000 000 for the benefit of businesses located in Ledig, Mahobieskraal and Phatsima villages in the North West province.
Rural, Township and Community Development Fund
Rural, Township, and Community Development Fund was designed to promote sustainable change in social and economic relations and support the goals of growth and development in the rural economy, through financing of sustainable enterprises.
uMnotho Fund
This Fund is designed to improve access to BEE capital and has five products: Acquisition Finance, Project Finance, Expansion Finance, Capital Markets Fund, and Liquidity and Warehousing.
iMbewu Fund
This Fund is designed to support black entrepreneurs wishing to start new businesses as well support existing black-owned enterprises with expansion capital.
Women Empowerment Fund
The NEF Women Empowerment Fund is aimed at accelerating the provision of funding to businesses owned by black women.
Alternative Energy Solutions Funding
The dtic and the NEF have established the Alternative Energy Fund to help black business install green energy solutions.
UIF II
To contribute towards sustainable job creation and retention by supporting job creating transactions while providing concessionary funding.
KHOEBO INNOVATION PROMOTION PROGRAM
To offer capital and business support to SMME’s during the early stages of commercialization.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about South African tourism & hospitality grants