High-ranking patronage of Mister Jacques Chirac President of the French Republic     Patronage   World Tourism Organisation (WTO) World Bank French Agency for Tourism Engineering (AFIT) (France) Swiss Federal Department of the Economic Affairs (Switzerland) City of Lyon (France) Espace Mont-Blanc (France, Italy, Switzerland) HEC Lausanne (Switzerland) International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST) Best of the Alps 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)