Cultural and Heritage Sites Local Tour Incentive Scheme

Cultural and Heritage Sites Local Tour Incentive Scheme

Application Period: 20 October 2022 to 30 November 2023

The Government announced on 20 October 2022 the launch of a three-year Cultural and Heritage Sites Local Tour Incentive Scheme (“Scheme”) to incentivise the travel trade to develop more tourism products and itineraries with cultural and heritage elements. The Scheme seeks to attract tourists and the public to visit places in Hong Kong with cultural and heritage tourism elements and encourage the travel trade to develop attractive itineraries and products, so as to enable tourists and the public to understand more about local culture and heritage, conservation, revitalisation, etc. and promote tourism products with characteristics and diversity.

Under the first phase of the Scheme, eligible travel agents can receive cash incentives in respect of each cultural and heritage sites local tour participant they serve during the period between 20 October 2022 and 31 October 2023. There are basic and advanced versions of cash incentives:

	Basic	Advanced
Amount of cash incentive for each eligible travel agent in respect of each participant of the cultural and heritage sites local tour it arranges (HK$)	$200	$400
Cash incentive participant quota for each eligible travel agent	1 000	200

The Government has announced the adjustment of the local anti-epidemic measures, effective from 29 December 2022, licensed travel agents are not required to submit the application for “Conditional exemption for licensed travel agents to organise group tours" to Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong (TIC) for organising local tours.

Eligible cultural and heritage sites local tour must complete the pre-registration of the tour itinerary through an E-registration form prior to tour departure, and its application for the Scheme must be submitted online no later than 30 November 2023. Incomplete pre-registration of tour itinerary and/or late applications will not be accepted by TIC.

For details of the Scheme, please click into the updated Guide to Application.

 

 

 (Please read carefully the Guide to Application before making submissions)

 

 

 

Enquiries

• Tel：2969 8149
• Email：[email protected]

 

Useful Link

Licensed travel agents having been granted the conditional exemption to organise local group tours and the itineraries of local group tours having been registered (Applicable on or before 28 December 2022)