The Tourism Sector Conference has approved the Tourism Sustainability Strategy in Destinations at its meeting on 28 July 2021, the roadmap that will guide the selection and funding of projects aimed at supporting the transformation of our destinations into tourism innovation hubs that make them more resilient, while moving towards greater territorial cohesion, not only linking the offer and destinations of each territory, but also creating connections between destinations in different regions.

The period for Local Bodies to submit applications for the first extraordinary call for Sustainability Plans to be financed with European recovery funds will be open from Friday 30 July until 20 September. In the next three years, the plan for the modernisation and competitiveness of the tourism sector of the Secretary of State for Tourism reserves €1.858 billion euros for the extraordinary calls for Sustainability Plans.

The Strategy establishes a typology of destinations to which minimum investment thresholds per plan correspond.

• Large Urban Destination (Madrid and Barcelona): 10 million euros.
• Highly internationalised Sun and Beach: 5 million euros.
• Urban destination/ City with tourist identity/ Mixed or residential: 2 million euros.
• Rural coastal/ Natural land areas/ Rural destinations with tourist identity: 1 million euros.

Proposals must be submitted via the e-Office of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, where you will find access to the form or explanatory manuals on how to apply, among others.

It should be taken into account that in the application, the applicant must select whether the project submitted is eligible for a Tourism Sustainability Plan in Destination or for a National Tourism Sustainability Plan.

Tourism Sustainability Strategy in Destinations [PDF] [13 KB]

Aid to support the commercial activity in rural areas

Aid to strengthen the commercial activity in tourist areas

Aid to support markets, urban commercial areas, non-sedentary trade and short marketing channels

The extract the Order of October 9 has been publish, by which subsidies are called to support Innovative Business Groups, corresponding to 2021, in the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, which has Innovative Business Groups registered in the Register regulated by the Order IET/1444/2014, of 30 July as beneificaries and their members.

More information in the Ministry's Aid Portal.

Extract from Order ICT/1096/2021 of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism of 01/10/21, by which lines of aid are called to strengthen the Official Spanish Chambers of Commerce abroad and Federations of Chambers for 2021.

(BOE no. 249, of 18 October 2021)

Aid procedure for the digitalisation and innovation of the Official Spanish Chambers of Commerce abroad and Federations of Chambers.

Extract from Order ICT/1073/2021 of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism of 24 September 2021, by which the lines of aid to strengthen communications systems and online services in associations and federations of exporters for 2021 are called.

(BOE no. 243, of 11 October 2021)

Procedure for Aid to digital transformation for Associations or Federations of Exporters.

Order ICT/1116/2021, of 7 October, establishes the regulatory bases of the lines of aid for the opening of foreign markets and proceeds to its call in the year 2021.

Access to the request for aid related to the Geographical Indications Line, whose objective is to provide consultancy and legal assistance to promote the protection and defence of the intellectual property rights of agri-food products (Protected Designations of Origin and Protected Geographical Indications) when these are usurped in third markets in which the European Union has signed agreements for the protection of geographical indications.

The purpose of this aid, is to promote and facilitate the access of Spanish products and companies to third country markets, financing the costs associated with the following actions:

• Inspection visits and official audits carried out by the authorities of third countries in order to achieve the recognition or equivalence of the establishments of Spanish operators in accordance with sanitary or phytosanitary requirements.
• Obtaining mandatory certifications required for Spanish products regarding compliance with import or marketing requirements adopted by third countries.
• Consultancy and legal defence related to defending commercial interests of the exporting sector that limit its exporting capacity, including those related to trade defence procedures.

Grants for industrial research, development and innovation projects in manufacturing industry

Grants for the Connected Industry 4.0 initiative / ACTIVA Funding

Order ICT/1292/2021, of 15 November, establishing the regulatory bases for the granting of subsidies under the "Innova Invest Programme" of ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones, E.P.E., and calling for applications in 2021, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.