FRANCE | LAURENCE JÉGOUZO 177 tourist development and reservation agencies. Generic sign: In order to increase the visibility of the departments to both the general public and professionals, an easily recognisable generic sign has been created for most of the departmental tourism committee, which most often bear the name of the department followed by the word tourism (for exemple, Finistère Tourisme, Dordogne Tourisme). 2) Organisation Legal form: Created on the initiative of the departmental council, the departmental tourism committee most often takes the form of an association, but there is, however, an example of an semi-public companies (fr. SEM) and a society with limited responsibility (fr. SARL). Composition: The committee is made up, by virtue of Article L. 132-3 of the French Tourism Code, of delegates from the General Council, members representing consular bodies and, where appropriate, economic expansion committees, tourist offices and tourist information centres, tourism, spa and leisure professions, tourism and leisure associations, tourist municipalities or their groupings and classified tourist resorts, and the regional tourism committee. We thus find the main actors present at the local level. 3) Resources Extensive public funding: The resources of the departmental tourism committee are made up of subsidies from the State, the region, the department and the communes, as well as donations and legacies from private individuals23. More specifically, they include subsidies such as the global equipment grant and tax revenues set up by the Law of 7 January 198324 and intended to support the investment effort of the départements in rural equipment such as public infrastructures, green tourism and rural housing. Some of them develop the marketing of tourist products, which provides them with interesting selffinancing, which is becoming less and less true. 23 C. tourisme, art. L. 132-5. 24 Law No. 83-8 of 7 Jan. 1983 on the distribution of competences between municipalities, departments, regions and the State, OJ 9 Jan. 1983, p. 215.
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