Park City & Summit County’s Sustainable Tourism Plan intends to create a future where they consider community and environmental benefits with the same weight as economic benefits, resulting in a thriving community and destination.
Donor Name: Park City Community Foundation
State: Utah
County: Summit County (UT)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/24/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Sustainable Tourism Grant was developed to fund programs, initiatives, promotions, and events that help support the objectives outlined in the Sustainable Tourism Plan:
- Cultivate local pride and respect for the Park City / Summit County experience
- Implement sustainable transportation, housing, water, energy, and waste management policies and initiatives
- Protect and manage the natural environment to enable sustainable outdoor recreation
- Ensure the long-term resilience of the Park City / Summit County economy
- Equalize the economic benefits and mitigate impacts of the visitor economy
- Leverage messaging and programming to accelerate sustainable tourism
- Foster the development and management of Summit County’s art and culture tourism assets.
Funding Information
Applicants may request an award of up to $30,000 to partially or fully fund eligible Sustainable Tourism projects.
Eligible Projects
This grant program will help support diverse projects across the tourism economy. Below are some examples of types of projects they envision funding. This list is not intended to be exclusionary, just to provide food for thought.
- General
- Tourism workforce development (e.g., frontline staff training programs, skills-based training programs, advancement programs)
- Tourism-related strategic planning (e.g., stakeholder and resident engagement, event management plans)
- Development of voluntourism programs
- Spreading economic impact to need times with lower visitation (e.g., mid-week, shoulder season, off-peak, etc.) and distribute economic impact more equitably throughout the community
- Visitor education programs
- Festivals & Events
- Event-specific surveys and research (e.g., feasibility studies, economic impact reports, visitor impact studies, and visitor profile reports)
- Efforts to reduce event greenhouse gas emissions
- Measures to reduce the generation of waste and to reuse, recycle and/or repurpose unavoidable waste
- Projects to increase access and inclusion for all attendees and staff
- Projects that decrease traffic impacts from major events
- Communication campaigns to raise awareness of sustainable measures for attendees
- Hiring external consultants to create a sustainability action plan
- Outdoor Recreation
- Projects that increase the accessibility of outdoor experiences for underrepresented communities
- Recreation site development and improvements (includes wayfinding & signage)
- Cycling infrastructure (includes repair stations, cycling tours, etc.)
- Waste management & diversion solutions in recreational spaces
- Parking/transportation strategies that encourage less single occupancy vehicle use
- Visitor education on trail etiquette
- Businesses & Business Districts
- Wayfinding enhancements
- Clean-up/beautification (such as low-water landscaping, local murals, etc.)
- Increasing availability of public water refill stations
- Historical interpretation, preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration
- Projects that increase accessibility
- Projects that enhance arts and culture
- “Buy local” campaigns and incentive programs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project must be in Summit County, UT
- Government/public organizations are eligible only in collaboration with other non-profit and private sector organizations
- Funds cannot be used to support employee salaries, but may be used to hire consultants providing outside expertise (e.g., consultant to evaluate event waste management practices)
- To be eligible to receive grant funds, applicants must be a member of the Park City Chamber of Commerce in good standing as of May 1, 2024.
For more information, visit PCCF.
