High-ranking patronage of Mister Jacques Chirac President of the French Republic     Patronage   World Tourism Organisation (WTO) French Agency for Tourism Engineering (AFIT) (France) Swiss Federal Department of the Economy (Switzerland) Espace Mont-Blanc (France, Italy, Switzerland) HEC Lausanne (Switzerland) International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST) French National Syndicate of Travel Agents (SNAV) (France) Professional Association of Solidarity in Tourism (APS) (France) Best of the Alps (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland) National Association of Elected Representatives from Mountains Areas (ANEM) (France) National Association of Mayors of Classed Sites and Tourist Communities (France) Association of Mayors of French Winter and Summer's Sports Resorts (France) Maison de Savoie (France)