It represents an extraordinary advertising for Biarritz

After having been a fishing village to the whale then resort to the mode with the enthusiasm of an empress, after valued its welfare assets related to the ocean, with the surf and the thalassotherapy, Biarritz is a city tour to great offshore and international. It is thus dream in territory of experimentation for the sport health and is the Organization of a conference bringing together the best world specialists in the sector next year. In the meantime, it is a test run this week with Biarritz operation in the form of the people, such as Jacques Perrin for his next film on the ocean, but also the medical boards of the national Committee Olympic and French. The event is available until October 31 during the week of the medicine of the sport, reserved for professionals, as well as in meetings of the form, open to the public. Program: the test form and tips to find the sport best suited to each, animations health...

A city of the ocean

Another project of size to an international clientele: the city of the ocean, which will see the end of 2010 day and is to be unveiled next week. This fun and educational equipment will be devoted to the Ocean as a living being. The city will include a scientific Observatory, a place of training and a resource centre for coastal risk, for which Françoise Pautrizel, Director of the Museum of the Biarritz sea refining project, has forged partnerships with its counterparts in Latin America.

Housed in a building referring to a wave reverse and designed by Franco-américain in tandem, this city of the ocean is to run the new emblem of the city. "This cultural equipment international must attract a tourist clientele in the year and provide a vision more modern Biarritz, still too assimilated its Belle Epoque heritage, therefore, a backward-looking vision." "The image of the city only will be more contiguous at the Palace Hotel, but the protection of the ocean, a critical problem for the planet", wants the Mayor, Didier Borotra, anxious not to make the basque Pearl "a golden retirement home".

The Museum of the Sea already existing, centering on the flora and water of the Bay of Biscay, will double it in size and open fish of the Gulf Stream, and Caribbean in Europe. For the Director of the office of tourism, Olivier Lépine, this double investment totalling EUR 36 million expected to drain 450,000 visitors annually and capture world congresses, attracted also by the new Iraty Hall that will accommodate next 4,000 people at the beginning of year. "Conferences and trade shows are already 40 million euros of annual benefits for Biarritz.". "The scientific dimension of the site will help build on new topics at the international," said the Mayor.

Because exchanges with other countries are a concern for a long time. As evidenced by the Foro de Biarritz, kind of mini-Davos on Europe-Latin America relations, the latest edition is to take place in Ecuador under the sponsorship of the local President of the Republic. Event conceived by Didier Borotra 10 years ago: "ride this forum, it was a choice to ensure the radiation of my city international. It represents an extraordinary advertising for Biarritz. "This should strengthen the links between the two continents, taking advantage of an implantation of Basques emigrated overseas as early as 1850 and a network with the Biarritz Festival cinemas and cultures of Latin America.

In the wake of the first magistrate, they delegation took the opportunity to increase awareness of its territory to personalities economic, scientific or cultural of the South American continent where the Conference takes place in alternation with the basque coast. "Now, all the Chambers of commerce of France speak to us to reach the Spanish-speaking countries", said Bernard Darretche, the Director of the Chamber of commerce Bayonne country basque. A way, this time to treat its institutional image inside the hexagon.