The City of Menton has just been granted the status of a “tourist interest municipality.” One of the consequences of this new status is that businesses located in the tourist interest municipality can, if they wish, benefit from an exception regime regarding Sunday openings.
While a surreal debate is currently taking place in the National Assembly on this subject (the Macron law, which wants to extend the number of open Sundays from 5 to 12, is being highly contested!), the possibility given to each merchant, based on volunteering and respecting employees’ rights, to develop their business as they see fit to meet the modern challenges of a tourist city, can only be welcomed.
This classification, following a prefectural decree after examining a file, recognizes at the highest level “the heritage and cultural characteristics” of Menton, as well as “the importance of its hotel sector.”
It also confirms “leisure tourism as a major activity of the city” and “the existence of a tourist interest within a city with high accommodation capacity.”
The Deputy Mayor Jean-Claude Guibal, is delighted with the decision: “This classification confirms that our city is a leading tourist destination, with strong economic and event activity all year round. It is more broadly part of our project to revive the two historical pillars of Menton’s economic development: the culture of citrus and Riviera tourism, to which we will add a third for the 21st century, the digital economy.”
