Maintenance of walking and mountain bike trails: acquisition of equipment (communes and tourist information offices)
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This contribution is intended for communes and tourist information offices to purchase equipment required for work on walking and mountain bike trails. These concern the acquisition costs for:
- marker posts and signs;
- materials for the construction of staircases, railings and pontoons;
- benches, picnic tables and litter bins.
Please note: in the case of tourist information centres, the purchase of tools required for routine maintenance work is also eligible (hedge trimmers, brush cutters, lawnmowers, power saws, etc.).
Who is concerned
Only communes and tourist information offices actively promoting tourism can benefit from the subsidy.
Deadlines
Applications must be transmitted at the latest one month before the acquisition of the equipment together with the required supporting documents.
Related invoices must be transmitted at the latest by 30 November of the year for which the subsidy is requested.
How to proceed
Submitting the application
You must submit a duly completed aid application using the form provided for this purpose to the General Directorate for Tourism.
If you submit the application electronically, please use the email address aides.tourisme@eco.etat.lu.
If the application is submitted by post, the following address should be used:
Ministère de l’Économie
Direction générale du tourisme
Aides financières, budget et comptabilité
B.P. 86
L-2937 Luxembourg
Supporting documents
Applications must be accompanied by:
- an itemised quotation;
- where applicable, a cadastral extract (Geoportal) providing information on the location of the equipment to be purchased (e.g. the location of a bench on a trail);
- where applicable, a photo of the current setup (e.g. of the bench that is to be replaced).
Amount of aid
The subsidy comes in the form of a financial aid paid to the beneficiary.
The amount of aid is determined by the General Directorate for Tourism depending on:
- the equipment purchased by the communal administration or the tourist information office;
- the available budget.
Payment
The subsidy is awarded as soon as possible after receiving the application, in the form of a direct payment of public financial aid to the beneficiary.
Online services and forms
Who to contact
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Ministry of the Economy General Directorate for Tourism (Financial aid, budget and accounting)
- Address:
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19-21, boulevard Royal
L-2449
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
B.P. 86, L-2937 Luxembourg
- Email address:
- aides.tourisme@eco.etat.lu
- Website:
- https://meco.gouvernement.lu/en.html
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