Funding to support travel to key international market development platforms and key gatherings.

The International Travel Fund supports international travel costs associated with Australian artists, creative workers and organisations attending significant market development platforms or key gatherings overseas.

This includes international performing arts markets, book fairs, art fairs, First Nations gatherings, and festivals that have a market development and international networking focus within their program.

The aims of the fund are to:

• support international travel costs for individuals, groups or organisations to attend market development platforms or key gatherings
• support Australian artists, creative workers and organisations to build and sustain international networks and connections.

You can apply for a flat amount of $5,000, $10,000, $15,000 or $20,000 only. Requests for other amounts will not be accepted.

Future closing dates are:

• 11 November 2025
• 14 April 2026
• 4  August 2026

Priority activities for the 11 November 2025 closing date:

Priority will be given to applications supporting travel to:

• Performing arts: Performing Arts Network New Zealand (PANNZ) Arts Market (March 2026); International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) Congress in Singapore (May 2026); Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo (HKPAX) (October 2026)
• Visual arts: ART SG, Singapore (January 2026); Art Basel Hong Kong (March 2026); Frieze Seoul Art Fair (September 2026)
• Literature: London Book Fair (March 2026); Bologna Book Fair (April 2026); and Frankfurt Book Fair (October 2026).

Who can apply:

• Australian individuals, groups and organisations (including small businesses). This includes:
• Australian citizens or permanent residents, whether you are based in Australia or overseas
• Australian organisations working in the arts and culture sector
• Organisations receiving funding through Creative Australia's Two-Year Investment for Organisations Pilots 2025-2026 and Four-Year Investment for Organisations.
• You can only submit one (1) application per closing date. Note you cannot submit an individual application as well as an application on behalf of a group or organisation.

Applicants working in the following arts practices:

• community arts and cultural development
• dance
• emerging and experimental arts
• First Nations arts and culture
• literature
• multi-art form
• music, excluding contemporary music as per Music Australia's definition (see 'About the grant' above for more information)
• theatre
• visual arts.

Please note: If you work in contemporary music, you are not eligible to apply to this fund. You should apply to the Export Development Fund from Music Australia instead. Australian contemporary music, as defined by the Music Australia Council, is "any genre or subgenre of music currently composed, written, produced by Australians and licensed, recorded, presented, and distributed through commercial and non-commercial activity. This includes musical works that are new, original and relevant to contemporary Australia."

• Email: international@creative.gov.au
• Website: https://creative.gov.au/about-us/contact-us/