Grants for craft tourism
In brief
Craft tourism means a business or artisan opening its production site — workshop, cellar, cheese dairy, manufacturing facility — to public visits as a complementary tourist activity. Several Regions fund the setup of this type of visitor trail. This page lists the schemes currently validated for this trade, with their funder and maximum amount where available.
Craft tourism is when a production business (craft, agricultural or industrial) opens its doors to the public: workshop visits, cellar tours, cheese dairy visits or manufacturing tours, tastings, and trade demonstrations.
It is a tourist activity that complements the business's main production activity, showcasing local know-how to visitors — somewhat on the model of "behind-the-scenes tours".
Several Regions (Hauts-de-France with its dedicated Regional Fund, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Normandie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) fund the necessary improvements: signage, visitor trails, reception areas, feasibility studies.
This page helps you identify relevant funding leads. However, it does not replace an individual check of your eligibility.
Run a personalised scan to identify the public grants and funding your company may be able to access.
What projects are covered?
The grants listed here fund the setup of a visitor trail at an existing production site (workshop, cellar, farm, manufacturing facility), the feasibility study for such a project, or the development of a gourmet tourism activity.
The business remains, above all, a production site: craft tourism is a complementary activity, not a conversion into a purely tourist site.
What amount can you obtain?
The highest known amount reaches €100,000 for the Regional Craft Tourism Fund — Implementation (Hauts-de-France Region); the feasibility study is generally funded at a few thousand euros.
How do you identify the funding suited to your project?
The number of schemes listed makes manual selection lengthy, and sometimes imprecise.
The Capital OS scan automatically cross-references these criteria with the full database of referenced public grants, to identify the ones that genuinely concern you:
- Your location
- Your main production activity
- The stage of your project (feasibility study, implementation)
Public grants for craft tourism
Fonds Régional Tourisme de Savoir-Faire - Réalisation
Région Hauts-de-France
Up to €100,000
Aide au développement du tourisme de savoir-faire
Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Up to €64,000
Appel à Manifestation d'Intérêt 'Tourisme de savoir-faire'
Ministère de l’Economie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté Industrielle, Energétique et Numérique, Région Pays de la Loire
Up to €50,000
Soutien au tourisme de savoir-faire
Région Normandie
Up to €10,000
Fonds Régional Tourisme de Savoir-Faire - Audit
Région Hauts-de-France
Up to €2,500
Aide au tourisme de savoir-faire en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Aide à la création ou au développement d'une activité dans le secteur du tourisme gourmand
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Human-validated links (AideTagLink, VALIDATED status only — unreviewed proposals are never shown here). Sorted by amount, highest first (then by internal identifier to break ties between the many identical titles).
Frequently asked questions about craft tourism grants
What exactly is craft tourism?
It is when a production business opens its site to public visits as a complementary tourist activity — for example, a cheese dairy that offers guided tours and a shop, or a craftsman's workshop that organizes demonstrations.
It differs from industrial tourism in the broader sense by its scale: it is an approach accessible to a micro-business or SME, not only to large industrial sites.
What public grants exist for this type of project?
7 open schemes are listed for this trade on Capital OS, run by several Regions.
The full list is presented above on this page, with the funder and the maximum amount of each grant where known.
Is my business eligible for these grants?
It depends on each scheme: most require a precise location within the relevant territory and a genuine production activity, not merely a tourist one.
This page does not presume your business's eligibility; the personalized assessment checks it based on your actual criteria.
How do I apply for this type of grant?
The application is made directly with the relevant Region.
A personalized assessment first identifies the schemes genuinely relevant to your business, before you start the process.
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