The Vercors Drôme Tourist Office

A tourism office

To do what ?

A tourist office is a public service organization, whose mission is defined by the Tourism Code. Article L133-3 specifies:
"The tourist office welcomes and provides information to tourists, as well as promotes tourism in the municipality or group of municipalities, in coordination with the departmental committee and the regional tourism committee. It helps coordinate the work of the various partners in local tourism development. It may be responsible for […] developing and implementing local tourism policy and local tourism development programs."

The birth of the Vercors Drôme Tourist Office

A key player in local tourism

In 2017, as part of the NOTRe Law, the Royans-Vercors Community of Communes merged the two existing offices: that of the Pays du Royans and that of the Vercors.
From this union a new organism is born, in the legal form of a EPIC (Public industrial and commercial establishment) : the Vercors Drôme Tourist Office.

Since then, its missions have been clarified through an objectives agreement entrusted by the Royans-Vercors Community of Communes (CCRV). They are of public interest and include:

• welcoming and informing visitors,
• the promotion of tourism in the region, in conjunction with the departmental committee and the regional tourism committee,
• coordination of local tourism stakeholders.
  

In 2024, two additional missions were added to this base:

• assistance in defining the tourism strategy (development and implementation of the tourism plan), in collaboration with the DTAT service of the CCRV,
• the collection of tourist tax

The Office's missions

From advising visitors to supporting local stakeholders

Welcome, inform, advise

• Inform visitors and residents, directly or remotely, via suitable media (physical reception, telephone, documentation, digital tools).
• Centralize and disseminate reliable and up-to-date information.
• Ensure the quality of the information communicated

Promote the territory and its partners

• Promote the destination to spread attendance throughout the year.
• Design and distribute tourist publications.
• Deploy multi-channel communication, particularly via digital.
  

Unite and support local stakeholders

• Create synergies between tourism professionals.
• Support the improvement in the quality of the offer (rankings, qualifications, training).
  

Tourism development and planning

• Work closely with the CCRV to ensure balanced and sustainable tourism.
• Support the creation of jobs linked to the sector.
• Provide expertise in tourism engineering to public and private structures.