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Article L134-1 of the French Tourism Code

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°…

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Article L134-1-1 of the French Tourism Code

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…

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Article L134-2 of the French Tourism Code

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…

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Article L134-3 of the French Tourism Code

The provisions of articles L. 133-11 and L. 133-12 are applicable to groupings of communes or to fractions of groupings of communes constituting a single, continuous territory. The provisions of articles L. 133-13 to L. 133-15 are applicable to groupings of communes or fractions of groupings of communes constituting a single territory without an enclave when the territory is equipped for winter sports and mountaineering.

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Article L134-5 of the French Tourism Code

Under the conditions set out in articles L. 133-2 to L. 133-10-1, several groups of municipalities wishing to join together to promote tourism may set up a tourist office by joint decision of their deliberative bodies.

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Article L134-6 of the French Tourism Code

The Tourist Office budget includes the following income in particular: 1° Subsidies ; 2° Specific subscriptions and offers of assistance ; 3° donations and legacies 4° The taxe de séjour or taxe de séjour forfaitaire defined in article L. 2333-26 of the Code général des collectivités territoriales, if it is levied on the territory of the groupement de communes or within the perimeter of a metropolis or the Lyon metropolis;…

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Article L135-2 of the French Tourism Code

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…

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Article L141-2 of the French Tourism Code

The “Atout France, agence de développement touristique de la France” economic interest grouping, placed under the supervision of the Minister for Tourism, is subject to the provisions of this article and of article L. 141-3 and, insofar as they are not contrary thereto, to the provisions of Chapter I of Title V of Book II of the French Commercial Code. The Agency has a threefold objective: to promote tourism in…

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