Project Description
Portugal Events
Tourism Grants
Portugal Events offers financial support, counselling and promotion to SMEs in the events sector. It covers expenses related to infrastructure, logistics and assists in the creation of business plans and marketing and advertising strategies, strategic partnerships and collaboration with other organisations. Its aim is to strengthen the events industry, promote tourism and boost the local economy.
Support Status
Preliminary Stage
Financing
Up to 250.000€
Territory
National Territory
Eligible Entities
Enterprises
Portugal Events
Tourism Grants
Portugal Events offers financial support, counselling and promotion to SMEs in the events sector. It covers expenses related to infrastructure, logistics and assists in the creation of business plans and marketing and advertising strategies, strategic partnerships and collaboration with other organisations. Its aim is to strengthen the events industry, promote tourism and boost the local economy.
Support Status
Preliminary Stage
Financing
Up to 250.000€
Territory
National Territory
Eligible Entities
Enterprises
Incentive Conditions
- This grant is intended to promote the attraction and holding of events that, due to their positioning, notoriety, contribution to the creation of territorial dynamics, diversification of the tourist experience and tourist dispersion in space and time, boost the dynamization of local economies, particularly in low-density territories, or favor the international projection of Portugal and its regions.
- The entire national territory.
- The support to be conceived takes the form of a non-refundable incentive
- Support rate depends on the Degree of Relevance:
- Medium Relevance Degree: 10%;
- High Degree of Relevance: 30%;
- Very High Degree of Relevance: 50%;
- Support rate depends on the Degree of Relevance:
- 25% surcharge if the event takes place in a Low Density Territory;
- Minimum investment – €100,000;
- Maximum investment – 250,000 euros, including bonuses.
- There are 2 types of beneficiaries:
- Type 1 beneficiaries:
- Companies of any size that hold the rights to organize events or whose main activity is organizing them;
- Type 2 beneficiaries:
- Convention Bureaux (1), Associations and Regional Tourism Promotion Agencies recognized by the Portuguese Tourism Confederation.
- Type 1 beneficiaries:
- Beneficiary entities must meet the following eligibility conditions:
- Be legally constituted;
- Have or ensure the physical, human, material and financial resources needed to organize and hold the event;
- Have an up-to-date tax and contributory situation with the tax authorities, social security and Turismo de Portugal, I. P.;
- Have organized accounts in accordance with the applicable legislation;
- In the case of companies, have a positive net worth as of December 31, 2019 or, if not, demonstrate that they have one at the time of the application, by submitting an interim balance sheet certified by the respective certified accountant;
- They do not fall within the concept of a company in difficulty as defined in Article 2(18) of the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER);
- Have not been subject to an administrative or judicial sanction in the two years prior to the date of the application, for the use of labor legally subject to the payment of taxes and social security contributions, not declared under the terms of the rules imposing this obligation in Portugal;
- Have not been convicted in the two years prior to the date of application, by a final judgment, of unlawful dismissal of pregnant women, women who have recently given birth or women who are breastfeeding.
- 1. Rental of space for the event and its social program;
- 2. Rental of audiovisual equipment;
- 3. Travel expenses;
- 4. Hiring services directly associated with the event, such as accommodation or catering;
- 5. Construction or assembly of structures associated with the event, including accessibility;
- 6. Event organization and management services, when contracted in Portugal;
- 7. Publicity material and communication campaign;
- 8. National and international communication plan for the event, namely:
- Presence in the media;
- Travel of journalists or international media, including accommodation and meals;
- Brand activations or promotional actions about the event abroad;
- Production of content to promote the event;
- Promotional material, including digital media such as websites or apps.
- Note: In the case of Music Festivals located outside low-density territories, only expenses related to point 8. National and international communication plan are eligible.
- a) The beneficiary’s normal operating costs, not provided for in the contracted investment, as well as maintenance and replacement costs, and costs related to periodic or continuous activities;
- b) Cash payments, except in situations where this proves to be the most frequent means of payment, depending on the nature of the expenditure, and provided that the unit amount is less than €250 (two hundred and fifty euros).
- 1 – Operations to organize and hold the following types of events are eligible for the Portugal Events incentive system:
- a) Events associated with the development of strategic tourism products, which are, due to their scale, catalysts for attracting tourists, contribute to boosting local economies and are capable of projecting the image of Portugal or the region where they take place;
- b) Association or corporate events that are not consolidated in the calendar of events of the territories where they take place.
- 2 – Operations to organize and hold events that correspond to individual sponsorships or that are not aimed at the priority foreign markets defined in the Tourism 2027 Strategy are not eligible.
Incentive Conditions
This grant is intended to promote the attraction and holding of events that, due to their positioning, notoriety, contribution to the creation of territorial dynamics, diversification of the tourist experience and tourist dispersion in space and time, boost the dynamization of local economies, particularly in low-density territories, or favor the international projection of Portugal and its regions.
The entire national territory.
The support to be conceived takes the form of a non-refundable incentive
Support rate depends on the Degree of Relevance:
Medium Relevance Degree: 10%;
High Degree of Relevance: 30%;
Very High Degree of Relevance: 50%;
25% surcharge if the event takes place in a Low Density Territory;
Minimum investment – €100,000;
Maximum investment – 250,000 euros, including bonuses.
There are 2 types of beneficiaries:
Type 1 beneficiaries:
Companies of any size that hold the rights to organize events or whose main activity is organizing them;
Type 2 beneficiaries:
Convention Bureaux (1), Associations and Regional Tourism Promotion Agencies recognized by the Portuguese Tourism Confederation.
Beneficiary entities must meet the following eligibility conditions:
Be legally constituted;
Have or ensure the physical, human, material and financial resources needed to organize and hold the event;
Have an up-to-date tax and contributory situation with the tax authorities, social security and Turismo de Portugal, I. P.;
Have organized accounts in accordance with the applicable legislation;
In the case of companies, have a positive net worth as of December 31, 2019 or, if not, demonstrate that they have one at the time of the application, by submitting an interim balance sheet certified by the respective certified accountant;
They do not fall within the concept of a company in difficulty as defined in Article 2(18) of the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER);
Have not been subject to an administrative or judicial sanction in the two years prior to the date of the application, for the use of labor legally subject to the payment of taxes and social security contributions, not declared under the terms of the rules imposing this obligation in Portugal;
Have not been convicted in the two years prior to the date of application, by a final judgment, of unlawful dismissal of pregnant women, women who have recently given birth or women who are breastfeeding.
1. Rental of space for the event and its social program;
2. Rental of audiovisual equipment;
3. Travel expenses;
4. Hiring services directly associated with the event, such as accommodation or catering;
5. Construction or assembly of structures associated with the event, including accessibility;
6. Event organization and management services, when contracted in Portugal;
7. Publicity material and communication campaign;
8. National and international communication plan for the event, namely:
Presence in the media;
Travel of journalists or international media, including accommodation and meals;
Brand activations or promotional actions about the event abroad;
Production of content to promote the event;
Promotional material, including digital media such as websites or apps.
Note: In the case of Music Festivals located outside low-density territories, only expenses related to point 8. National and international communication plan are eligible.
a) The beneficiary’s normal operating costs, not provided for in the contracted investment, as well as maintenance and replacement costs, and costs related to periodic or continuous activities;
b) Cash payments, except in situations where this proves to be the most frequent means of payment, depending on the nature of the expenditure, and provided that the unit amount is less than €250 (two hundred and fifty euros).
1 – Operations to organize and hold the following types of events are eligible for the Portugal Events incentive system:
a) Events associated with the development of strategic tourism products, which are, due to their scale, catalysts for attracting tourists, contribute to boosting local economies and are capable of projecting the image of Portugal or the region where they take place;
b) Association or corporate events that are not consolidated in the calendar of events of the territories where they take place.
2 – Operations to organize and hold events that correspond to individual sponsorships or that are not aimed at the priority foreign markets defined in the Tourism 2027 Strategy are not eligible.
