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For the National Deputy and new Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, who is also President of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, President of the General Council of the Alpes-Maritimes département, tourism has become one of the municipality’s main priorities. He would like to make the city “a pole of excellence in the area of tourism”.
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The responsibility for this incisive innovative policy for tourism goes to Rudy Salles, deputy mayor in charge of tourism and international relations, vice-president of the Bureau, the CANCA conurbation and the National Assembly.
The major development orientations have been defined for the months and years to come: the Acropolis Convention Centre will be renovated soon by the architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. There is a project in the city centre to build a prestige venue on the sea for greeting convention goers; it will be a showcase of Nice as a convention venue. Furthermore, an international exhibition centre covering 50 to 60,000 m² is planned near the Airport (in the Lower Var valley) with a capacity of 40,000 participants.
There is a clear will to place Nice in the lead for tourism and make it a pole of competence.