The South African Department of Tourism has invited all eligible tourism enterprises to take part in the Green Tourism Incentive Programme’s (GTIP) 9th application window – opening today (January 25) and closing on March 31.
The development of the GTIP was informed by escalating electricity prices, the intensifying pressure on the national energy grid and the negative impacts of load-shedding, as well as water scarcity and drought conditions which negatively affect the tourism sector.
The programme encourages private-sector tourism enterprises to move towards the installation of solutions for the sustainable management and usage of electricity and water resources.
For this financial year, the Department has set aside R199m (€9.6m) to disburse to successful GTIP applicants.
GTIP has already assisted 173 tourism businesses across the country with electricity and water solutions to the total grant value of R104m (€5m). The solutions that were installed as part of this…