Chapter 4: Inter-municipal groupings.

The communauté de communes, communauté d’agglomération, communauté urbaine, métropole or métropole de Lyon automatically exercises, in place of its member communes, under the conditions and subject to the reservations set out, respectively, in articles L. 5214-16, L. 5216-5, L. 5215-20 and L. 5215-20-1, L. 5217-2 and L. 3641-1 of the Code général des collectivités territoriales : 1° Responsibility for the creation, development, maintenance and management of tourist activity zones; 2°…

Under the conditions set out in article L. 134-5, urban communities, metropolitan areas and the Lyon metropolitan area may set up one or more tourist offices in all or part of their territory. The areas of responsibility of each tourist office may not overlap. When a single tourist office is set up with jurisdiction over the entire territory of urban communities, metropolises or the Lyon metropolitan area, it is called…

When the competence to promote tourism, including the creation of tourist offices, is transferred to communities of communes and conurbation communities, the tourist offices of tourist communes and classified tourist resorts are transformed into information offices of the inter-communal tourist office, except when they become the headquarters of this office. However, the deliberative body of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax authority may decide, no later…