Royal Caribbean Grant Application

Royal Caribbean Group Local Business Support Grant

Welcome! Please fill in the following information entirely for funding consideration. Please understand that filling out the following form does not guarantee funding. Make sure you have read the selection criteria before applying.

You are encouraged to participate even if you have received support from another funder or via fiscal incentives such as tax breaks. You can only submit ONE application per business. Completing this form will take 15-20 minutes.

1. First Name(s) *

2. Last Name(s) *

3. Sex *

Female
Male
Other

Phone Country Code

Country Code

Cellphone Number *

Cellphone

6. Email Address *

7. Royal Caribbean contact person's name *

8. Business name *

9. Business license number or tax ID *

10. Business Address *

Address Line 1

City *

City

Country *

Country

Zipcode *

Zip/Post Code

12. Twitter

13. Facebook

14. Instagram

15. Select which category best represents your business *

Explain business category

Established Month *

Month

Established Year *

Year

First worked with Royal Caribbean - Month *

Month

First worked with Royal Caribbean - Year *

Year

18. Describe in detail your relationship and services provided to Royal Caribbean and its customers before the pandemic. *

Include a complete description of frequency and type of service provided.

19. On average, how many Royal Caribbean tourists would you say you served weekly during high season, pre-pandemic? *

20. How would you define your business before the pandemic considering the number of years in business, size and revenue? *

Seed/start-up (Your main priority is to find and obtain customers, develop a product or service, and build a brand identity).
Growing (You have a solid business model, your consumers know about your product or service. Your revenue was increasing before COVID-19).
Maturing (Rapid year-over-year growth and a solid core of employees).
Declining (Your business has seen several months of declining revenue and you had to let go employees).
Changing/reinventing (You found a creative way to keep your business afloat despite the external challenges).

21. Have you received any relief funding from another source? *

Provide details of the amount, funder, dates and objective. *

22. Do you have a relationship with the following stakeholders? Please check all that apply. *

24. What percentage of your employees are from the local community? *

0-25%
26-50%
51-75%
76-100%

25. What was your business net revenue in 2019 in USD (approx)? *

26. What was your business net revenue in 2020 in USD (approx)? *

27. What percentage of your net income is dependent on cruise tourism? *

0-25%
26-50%
51-75%
76-100%

28. What is the primary challenge that you are facing with your business currently? *

29. What are other challenges that you are facing? (Check all that apply)

Please explain.

30. How is your business primarily keeping afloat? *

32. How did COVID impact your business? *

33. What have you done to keep your business afloat? *

34. Do you plan to provide services to Royal Caribbean and its customers in 2022? *

Yes
Maybe
No

35. Grant amount requested *

Please note that this amount should be consistent with your plan. The grants range between $3,000 to 75,000 USD. Size of the business, revenue, strategic value, and impact will be considered for validating the request.

36. What would be the primary use you would give to the funds received through this grant? *

Pay down loans
Invest in operating costs (such as rent, equipment, insurances)
Retain employees (payroll)
Other

Please explain:

37. How many persons would you help with this grant and in what ways? *

38. Let us know in less than 200 words how this grant will help you boost your business and ensure it is ready to resume supporting cruise activities. *

I understand that my information will be used only for the purpose of this program. However, if selected, I agree on completing and sending a report with information about the usage of the grant I received and the impact it had for my business, as well as 3 to 5 representative images. I give my authorization to Royal Caribbean and PADF to use the information I provided on the usage of the grant and my images to promote their actions on their marketing channels. *

I accept

Royal Caribbean Group Local Business Support Grant

Share this:

Like this: