City of Napa is seeking application for its grant that enhance the experience of visitors to the City of Napa resulting in extended hotel stays and repeat visitation, all while promoting the beneficial impact that tourism and hospitality have on the local community.
Donor Name: City of Napa
State: California
City: Napa
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/24/2023
Details:
The Napa Valley Tourism Improvement District (NVTID) was created in 2010 and is funded through a 2% assessment on short-term (30 days or less) room rentals in lodging businesses throughout the Napa Valley. The intent of the assessment is to support local activities and projects that promote, support, and enhance tourism while providing a public benefit. The Napa Tourism Improvement District Local Governing Committee (Napa TID) oversees 25% of the expenditure of funds generated locally by the City of Napa’s lodging establishments and directs the expenditure of those funds to benefit the payors.
Funding Objectives
To enable, support, and enhance the creation and operation of activities and tools that result in increased visitation, extended overnight stays, and repeat visitation to lodging properties in the City of Napa.
Examples include (but are not limited to):
- Local special event programming, underwriting and promotion.
- Community and cultural arts programming activities, such as music on the plaza, movie nights, sculpture walks, film festivals, etc.
- Tourism related streetscape enhancement and maintenance or visitor-serving improvements.
- Seasonal and other tourism and visitor related programs.
- Local tourism shuttle or other visitor transportation programs.
- Seed funding for community-based programs which support or enhance tourism.
- Trails, pedestrian paths, signage, bike paths, etc. which enhance and improve upon the visitor experience and access to lodging properties.
- Enhanced maintenance and custodial municipal services to tourism-related areas.
For more information, visit City of Napa.