Applications are closed.
Program overview
The Enabling Tourism Fund 2024 is investing up to $8 million to support regional and rural Victorian tourism infrastructure projects to reach investment-ready status.
Successful applicants will be supported via grants to deliver planning activities such as feasibility studies, master planning and design.
The fund will focus on the 5 product priorities identified in Experience Victoria 2033:
- First Peoples-led experiences
- wellness
- arts and culture
- food and drink
- nature.
It will be delivered via 2 grant streams:
- Stream 1 - Testing the concept: between $20,000 and $500,000 (excl. GST) for a project to test the concept of a new infrastructure project, such as a feasibility study, master plan or business case.
- Stream 2 - Preparing for investment: between $20,000 and $500,000 (excl. GST) to prepare a combination of materials to ensure that a project is ready for infrastructure investment. These could include a detailed design package, funding strategy, or stakeholder and community engagement plans.
Grant recipients
Grants between $20,000 and $500,000 (excl. GST) for a project to test the concept of a new infrastructure project, such as a feasibility study, master plan or business case.
Grant recipients
- Sustainable Earth Network – Village Bowl Geelong permanent fresh food market Feasibility Study and Business Case
- Southern Grampians Shire Council – Greater Hamilton Volcanic Trail Business Case
- Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC – Eastern Maar Cultural Tourism Business Case development strategy
- Walhalla Goldfields Railway Inc – Rails to Gold Feasibility Study
- East Gippsland Shire Council – Unlocking the Omeo Justice Precinct Business Case
- Reptile Encounters – Development of a new Phillip Island Zoo Masterplan
- City of Ballarat – Art Gallery of Ballarat Masterplan
- Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory – Dark Matter Experience Centre
- Taungurung Land and Waters Council – Taungurung Cultural Centre
- The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion – Great Stupa Masterplan and Feasibility Study
- Puffing Billy Railway – Puffing Billy Railway Belgrave Precinct Key Area Plan
- District Agency Pty Ltd – Geelong Immersive Experience Project
- Nine Stalks Pty Ltd – Luxury Farmstay Feasibility Study
- Hepburn Shire Council – Hepburn Mineral Springs Reserve Masterplan
- Alpine Shire Council – Dinner Plain Business Case and Visitor Economy Impact Study
- The Green Olive at Red Hill – Green Olive Retreat
Grants between $20,000 and $500,000 (excl. GST) to prepare a combination of materials to ensure that a project is ready for infrastructure investment. These could include a detailed design package, funding strategy, or stakeholder and community engagement plans.
Grant recipients
- COESR Pty Ltd – Detailed design progression of the CORA Masterplan
- Wandilla Estate Trust – Wandilla South Gippsland luxury tourism villas, epicurean, conference and wellness precinct investment readiness project
- Shizukana Pty Ltd – Japanese Bath House Detailed Design Plan
- Eagle Ridge Event Park – Park Development Project – Phase 2
- Reddrop Management Group Pty Ltd – Hotel Eildon Development Plan
- Castlemaine – Maryborough Rail Trail Inc – Castlemaine – Maryborough Rail Trail Pre-Construction Project
- Campaspe Port Enterprise Pty Ltd – Port of Echuca Wharf Revitalisation
- Loco Shed Echuca Inc – Echuca Loco Shed Restoration Development Plan
- The Bendigo Trust – Central Deborah Gold Mine Revitalisation Detailed Design
- Victoria Hot Springs Pty Ltd – Peninsula Hot Springs Hospitality and Accommodation Expansion
- The Ranch Mornington Peninsula – The Ranch World Class Action Sports Facility Design Development, Business Planning and Funding Strategy
- The Trustee for Experience Grampians Trust – The Bathhouse Pomonal
- The Sovereign Hill Museums Association – Sovereign Hill Gold Pavilion Schematic Design
