The Lyon metropolitan area may create one or more tourist offices in all or part of its territory.
The areas of competence of each tourist office may not overlap.
When the Metropolitan Council decides to set up a single tourist office with jurisdiction over the entire metropolitan area :
– it takes the name of “Metropolitan Tourist Office” ;
– it replaces all pre-existing tourist offices and constitutes a departmental tourist committee within the meaning of article L. 132-2 ;
– the other tourist offices in tourist municipalities and classified tourist resorts are transferred to the Lyon Metropolitan Area and transformed into the information offices mentioned in article L. 133-3-1 of the Tourism Code, except when they become the headquarters of the office thus created.