Experience Ontario 2025 supports in-person festivals or events in Ontario that will:
1. Draw tourists and increase visitor spending through innovative programming in partnership with businesses and community partners.
2. Provide job opportunities for Ontarians in the tourism, culture, and entertainment sectors.
Present in English, on Ontario.ca, the Tourism Development Fund 2023 program guidelines to potential applicants and other interested parties
Experience Ontario 2026 supports in-person festivals or events in Ontario that will:
Application Guide for grants that support Festivals an Events
1. Draw tourists and increase visitor spending through innovative programming in partnership with businesses and community partners.
2. Provide job opportunities for Ontarians in the tourism, culture, and entertainment sectors.
Apply here:
https://www.tpon.gov.on.ca/eo/#/home
Accept registration information from pre-determined individuals who have qualified to receive financial support from the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport's Quest for Gold Ontario Athlete Assistance Program. Individuals must be pre-screened by a Ministry-approved Provincial Sport Organization to be eligible to complete this form.
Application guidelines for the administration of the Foreign Cultural Objects Immunity From Seizure Act (FCOISA). Cultural/educational institution representatives must submit this form in order to have works on loan from foreign institutions protected under the Act. The form should be submitted a minimum of 90 days prior to the shipping date of art from a foreign institution. End result is the publishing of the list of works of art in the Ontario Gazette indicating the works are protected.
Ontario Sport Hosting Program Guidelines and Reference Documents
Typical Week Survey helps Ontario public libraries and First Nations public libraries to record, and then report on, their public library usage. Typical Week Survey is annually done in November and data from it is used in the Annual Survey of Public Libraries.
