Cossette Lab is calling on tourism-related tech startups to apply to its accelerator programs in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Cossette is a well-known Quebec City-based marketing communications company that provides integrated communications services. The company employs about 650 people in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver.

Cossette Lab launched in 2012 as the company looked to invest in and help smaller startups grow within their care and guidance. Through those efforts the company has “hosted” 14 companies in four years.

Now they’re ready to accept applications for the new cohorts across Canada.

“This is an exciting opportunity for us to broadly help the startup community and bring new ideas to the tourism industry,” said Cossette Canada CEO Melanie Dunn. “It is also a service to our clients in the tourism sector and our own staff, by exposing our people to the innovative thinking and entrepreneurial culture all around us.”

The accelerators will accelerate startup anywhere from six to 12 months. During that time, Cossette personnel will help the startups connect with Cossette’s tourism-related clients, including Tourisme Montréal, Via Rail, Aeroplan, and most recently Tourism Yukon.

“Innovation is a top priority across our entire organization so it makes sense to reach out to those entrepreneurs who only need a little help to take their exciting ideas from concept to reality,” said Malik Yacoubi, Chief Digital Officer of Cossette Montreal and founder of Cossette Labs.

To qualify, businesses must develop a technology that will “benefit Cossette, the agency’s clients or potential partners.”

The start-ups that Cossette Lab selects need to have reached “a sufficient maturity level in the development of their technology and business model.”

Startups have until September 15 to apply here.