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Destination Nice
Destination Nice
With 104 direct destinations including sixty European towns, the Nice hub continues to develop, often setting up new links to and from Nice. Only a few hours away, Nice has never been nearer to you and your clients!
For a family break, romantic get-away, business trip or holiday, the second French airport opens the doors of the French Riviera and Nice to you!
New links:
• Helsinki and Gothenburg with Norwegian
• Vienna with Niki
• Basel with Swiss
• Innsbruck and Olbia with Welcome Air
For the complete list of destinations, click on the link opposite (+)
Latest Nice news
Auto Bleue – self-service 100% electric vehicles!
Nice Côte d'Azur is the first public authority in France to organize a vehicle sharing system on a large scale using only electric cars. Operational since April 2011, 210 vehicles are divided among 70 stations. 24/24 et 7/7, an Auto Bleue is ready for you near your home. To get from place to place in Nice or for a peaceful, CO²-free trip around town, take the wheel of a 100 % eco-friendly Peugeot Ion or Citroën Berlingo and take advantage of the GPS system as well! (+)
Sunday opening for the shops in Nice on Sundays
The large stores and small boutiques in Nice town centre will be open every Sunday during the summer season and some of them will continue to open on Sundays all year. In ‘Vieux-Nice’, by the port, in the pedestrian precinct or on the main thoroughfare and the roads at right-angles to it, there is a vast choice. On your marks... get set... Shopping! (+)
Nice, land of events
• An eagerly awaited line-up at the NIce Jazz Festival, from 8 to 12 July 2011
Each year, the Nice Jazz Festival attracts 40.000 festival goers. Once again this year, in the very heart of Nice, in the Albert 1er Gardens, it presents an exceptional programme to the public - Michel Legrand, Didier Lockwood, John Mc Laughlin, Morcheeba, Keziah Jones, Ahmad Jamal and many others. The best French jazz musicians will pay tribute to the trumpeter Miles Davis by reinterpreting the work “Kind of Blue”, brought out 50 years ago and still the best-selling jazz album in the world. (+)
• Prom’ Party! Music in the forefront!On the Promenade des Anglais, traffic-free for the event, musical groups will move around like a merry-go-round. New and world music, jazz, Latin American, light and accordion music will rub shoulders on six podiums each evening. Accompanying these concerts on 14 July and 15 August, fireworks will be let off from the Baie des Anges at 10pm. All these concerts are free, to enjoy freely!
• Riviera Pétanque Show, from 23 to 25 July 2011
This year, Europétanque de Nice, now one of the major Pétanque competitions, is celebrating its tenth year. For this occasion, Boulisme magazine is joining in the event to set up the Riviera Pétanque show. 2,000 players will take part in three days of competitions which will take place in Place Masséna, in the Albert 1er Gardens and on the Promenade des Anglais. 65 courts, 72 hours of competition, 12 countries represented ... this event is now part of Nice’s heritage, in the same way as the Paris-Nice cycling event.
Our professional events in the near future
The Office du Tourisme et des Congrès de Nice will be present at the following professional events:
Meeting industry
• Washington DC promotion- 27 to 29 June 2011
• Workshop evening Taste of Nice - London - 5 July 2011.
• Meeting - Meet in France by Meedex - Paris - 11 to 12 July 2011
• Association Congress - London - 17 to 18 July 2011
• France - Germany Road Show - Munich Frankfort Cologne - 4 to 6 October 2011
• IMEX America – exhibition Las Vegas - 11 to 13 October 2011
• M.I.C.E. + press evening - Milan - 20 October 2011
• ICCA Congress - Leipzig - 22 to 26 October 2011
Organized Leisure Tourism
• Coach Operators’ promotion Alsace Lorraine region - 26 to 30 June 2011
• Promotion South-East Asia - 5 to 9 September 2011 – To be confirmed
• Workshop Addicted to France - Copenhagen - 7 September 2011
• Workshop France / Mediterranean - Toulouse - 17 to 18 September 2011
• Workshop France / India - New Delhi Mumbai et Bangalore - 19 to 23 September 2011
• Map Pro Trade Fair - Paris - 6 to 7 October 2011
• French Affairs - Miami - 23 to 24 October 2011
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