Galician Tourism Opens Call for 2025 Grant Applications for the Q for Quality and S for Sustainability Certification

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Galician Tourism Opens Call for 2025 Grant Applications for the Q for Quality and S for Sustainability Certification

  • Applications can be made until 11:59 p.m. on October 13.

 

The Galician Tourism Agency has published in the Official Gazette of Galicia the call for grants for tourism establishments and services for the certification, monitoring, and renewal processes of the UNE standards that allow them to obtain or maintain the Q for Tourism Quality mark and/or the S for Tourism Sustainability mark awarded by the Institute for Spanish Tourism Quality and Sustainability (ICTES).

 

The objective of the call is to support tourism destinations and businesses in their commitment to improving quality and sustainability by facilitating the costs associated with external certification, its monitoring or renewal, as well as the rights to use the Q and S marks in 2025.

 

The application period will be open from September 13 to October 13, 2025, under procedure code TU970A. These grants are open to Galician city councils and their instrumental entities that manage public tourism services, as well as private individuals or legal entities that own tourist establishments or services.

 

The call for applications has a total allocation of €210,000, divided into €50,000 for city councils and €160,000 for private entities.

 

Eligible expenses include:

 

  1. Costs of external audits conducted by accredited entities for the certification, monitoring, or renewal of the Q and S marks.
  2. Rights to use the marks invoiced by the ICTES once certification has been obtained.

 

Costs derived from internal audits, membership fees, system implementation, personnel expenses, or recoverable taxes are excluded.

 

Applications may be submitted electronically until 11:59 p.m. on October 13, 2025. The deadline for submitting justification for the grants is November 28, 2025.

 

  • Free Cluster Consulting Service

 

In 2025, the Cluster once again made its free consulting service available to the sector for obtaining and/or maintaining the Q for Quality and the S for Sustainable Tourism. This initiative aims to facilitate the certification process for companies in the sector interested in strengthening their commitment to excellence and sustainability. Those interested in accessing this service can send an email expressing their interest to secretariatecnica@clusterturismogalicia.com or call 881 24 74 36.