Tourism Law in Europe

188 TOURISM LAW IN EUROPE are financed by public subsidies, they cannot effectively operate in the same field of activity as private companies. Thus, when a company markets the same products as an office, the latter must cease this activity to the extent that it is subsidised52. New regime: As part of the simplification of the administrative authorisation regime, the Law of 22 July 2009 modifies the scope of their intervention and makes them subject to the single registration regime applicable to tourism operators (Part 4). Furthermore, the text no longer limits their scope of intervention to their geographical area. In practice, however, it is difficult to imagine what interest a tourist office would have in marketing tourist products in a locality other than the one in which it operates. There are 512 tourist offices are registered with Atout France. Consultation on collective tourist facilities projects: This optional competence is compulsory for tourist offices constituted in the form of public industrial and commercial establishments (fr. EPIC) (the French Tourism Code, art. L. 133-9), mainly because of their size and regime, but the others may also be consulted (the French Tourism Code, art. L. 133-3). 3. REGISTRATION OF A TOURIST AGENCY OR A TOUR OPERATOR Plan: Travel and tourism operators have seen considerable changes in the conditions under which they practice their profession. Their legal status has developed since the Legal Act of 22 July 2009, and the Package Travel and Related Services Directive of 25 November 2015, which was transposed in 2017 modifying the categories of travel agencies and other operators (3.1.) and subjecting them to a new procedure: registration in the register of tour and holiday agents and other operators responsible for the selling of travel and accommodation (3.2.). As a consequence of the regulation of their activity. I, provided that these make it possible to facilitate the reception or improve the conditions of stay of tourists in their geographical area of intervention”. In this sense, see Chambre syndicale du commerce en détail de Nevers, Lebon p. 374 and CE avis, 8 Nov. 2000, Société J. L. Bernard Consultants, Lebon p. 492, AJDA 2000, p. 1066. 52 CAA Marseille, 10 Jan. 2006, no. 02MA00906.

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