Where to Play

Where to Stay & Dine

Welcome Grant Seekers

This web-page was built to help seekers explore tourism grant opportunities.

When visitors stay in hotels or bed and breakfasts located within Tompkins County’s borders, they pay a room tax. Those funds are collected from the innkeepers by Tompkins County government, which has created the Tompkins County Tourism Grants program.

These grants are designed to generate more room tax dollars, align with the strategic tourism plan, and offer visitors experiences worth revisiting.

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2008 NEWS

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Release Date: January 16, 2008. Tompkins County announces a spring round of the following tourism grants:

~Community Celebrations Grants

~Project Grants

~New Tourism Initiative Grants

~Marketing and Advertising Grants

~Tourism Capital Grants

To learn more about each grant, attend a workshop on January 22, 2008 at the Convention and Visitors Bureau, 904 East Shore Drive, Ithaca at 2:30.

>>>Legislature Awards First Tompkins Tourism Partner Award - March 20, 2007

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity is the first recipient of the County Legislature's Tompkins Tourism Partner Award. The award is given to recognize...click here for full story

>>> Legislature Awards $72,000 in Tourism Grants - March 20, 2007

The Tompkins County Legislature has awarded 27 grants, totaling almost $72,000, in the latest round of the county's tourism grant program. The Legislature approved...click here for full story

– Jackie Kippola, Liaison, jkippola@tompkins-co.org

 

 

Tompkins County 5-Year Strategic Tourism Plan