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With such assets as the international notoriety of its tourist hub, its hotel capacity (ranking fifth in France after Paris, Lourdes, Nice and Lyon) and its exceptional transport connections, Marne-la-Vallée is prominently positioned for becoming a new cluster of excellence devoted to leisure, sports and major events.

Marne-la-Vallée area, hosting as it does the foremost integrated tourist destination of European scope, appears as the ideal location to host such a tourism cluster.

This is particularly true in view of the fact that recent agreements signed between the Government and the Euro Disney Company call for the site to double its hotel capacity and its attractions by 2030, as part of a strong densification in tourist activities (business tourism, green tourism, sustainable tourism). This position is further reinforced by such projects as Villages Nature and the Val d’Europe convention centre.

The cluster also suppose to develop research and further education channels devoted to trades in the tourist, hotel, leisure and heritage industries intensively interacting with private business and public agencies.

In addition to the university channel, with a couple of research laboratories, it will include public or private schools, issuing diplomas ranging from advanced vocational (“BTS”) to masters and PhDs, with for instance a school for major hotel group executives and general managers modeled after the Lausanne school. In fact, the Minister of Higher Education and Research has asked the Chairman of the University of Marne-la-Vallée to initiate discussions on the issue, and the Secretary of State in charge of the Capital Region Development was instructed to include this cluster among the Greater Paris development clusters.