Tourism Law in Europe

166 TOURISM LAW IN EUROPE 2) The Sub-Directorate for Tourism Creation: Article 10 of the Order of 15 September 2014 states that the Department of Tourism, Trade, Crafts and Services, comprises the SubDirectorate of Tourism.  Tasks These missions are defined by Decree No. 2014-1048 of 15 September 2014 on the Directorate-General for Enterprise and by Article 11 of the Order of 15 September 2014. As such, the sub-directorate for tourism, through its four offices, implements and evaluates the State’s policy on tourism. It coordinates the various sectors of tourism activity, prepares regulations and ensures that they are implemented. The Sub-Directorate of Tourism contributes to the development of the tourism professions, in particular by establishing institutional relations with professional, employer and employee organisations. The Tourism Professions Office is the first intermediary. It supports the business policies of the main players in the tourism industry and proposes measures to increase their competitiveness within the country and in accessing foreign markets. It ensures the inter-ministerial coordination of sustainable tourism development policies, which it designs in consultation with the decentralised territorial authorities in metropolitan and overseas France. In this respect, within its area of competence, it coordinates the preparation and monitoring of State-Region project contracts. In addition, the Sub-Directorate for Tourism prepares and implements the policy of aid for holiday departure and supervises the National Holiday Voucher Agency. It draws up and monitors the application of the contracts of objectives and means of the structures intervening in its field of competence and benefiting from its financial contributions. It prepares and represents the Ministry at meetings organised by international institutions other than the EU, where it promotes France’s positions, particularly at the World Tourism Organisation, for which it is the French correspondent.  Composition a) Office for competitiveness and development of tourism activities Purpose: The Office of Competitiveness and Business Development prepares and elaborates general national policies on tourism and participates in European and international work, and provides economic and strategic monitoring of the tourism sector. This office provides legal expertise in tourism law. As such, it has drafted the law on the modernisation of tourist services, the legislation applicable to the classification of tourist offices and the text on the palace label.

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