Financial counselling services for Queensland tourism businesses

The Queensland Tourism Business Financial Counselling Service provides Queensland tourism businesses with free support and advice to help them navigate the impacts of COVID-19.

Overview

This program provides tourism operators with individual guidance and specialised professional advice to help them:

• look for new opportunities, markets or industries they can service
• resize their business to meet new market conditions and opportunities
• negotiate or exit property and supplier contracts
• mothball their business until a future date such as when international visitors return
• take steps to leave the tourism industry with dignity.

The Queensland Tourism Business Financial Counselling Service is a 3 stage process:

• Stage 1: free Tourism Business Health Check
• Stage 2: free Tourism Business Financial Counselling Service
• Stage 3: 50% rebate on up to $5,000 of Tourism Business Professional Advice.

Check if you can apply

To be eligible, you must:

• be operating a tourism business
• be headquartered in Queensland and primarily operate in Queensland
• hold an Australian business number (ABN) and have continuously held that ABN and been registered for goods and services tax (GST) since 1 February 2020
• have been operating before 1 February 2020
• on 1 February 2020, employed between zero and 199 employees
• be able to demonstrate that you received the JobKeeper payment between September 2020 and March 2021.