Qualifying Businesses/Operators

• Must be a bona fide, registered tourism business in operation for a minimum of one year.
• Must have a direct relationship/connection to the mission product theme.
• Only one delegate per company; delegate partners/spouses not permitted to attend.
• In the case of incorporated businesses, delegates are to be senior, full time employees within their respective organizations.
• A tourism ‘business’ can only participate in one mission per twelve-month period.
• Should a mission with the same focus be organized multiple times over the course of the project, a tourism enterprise may only participate once.
• Destination organizations will be examined on a case by case basis, based on merit with respect to repeat mission eligibility;
• In the event that a mission has not reached delegate capacity, and there are tourism sector nominees who do not fully meet the criteria, those nominees may be offered the opportunity to participate if willing to pay 100% of their costs, and will be handled on a case by case basis.