The Convention and Visitors Bureau of Nice urged UK travellers taking cheap flights to the south of France this summer to check out the “hidden gems” of the regions, such as its speciality vineyards.
The convention’s marketing attaché Jessika Bettan said that the city has many vineyards within the city limits itself, although many visitors are unaware of them.
As well as the dedicated vineyards, there are also several castles just a 20 minute cheap car hire trip away which also produce wine – she said that a trip to explore the vineyards of Nice was a perfect day out for people on France holidays.
“You can have the morning on the markets, then you can see all the local products, and then you eat in a restaurant along the beach and you eat the specialities from the market because all the restaurants they prepare their meals with products that they buy in the morning,” Ms Bettan pointed out.
“You have a little lunch, then you take a bus or a car and you visit the vineyards.”
France holidays are becoming increasingly popular among British travellers this year, according to a recent report published by The Co-operative Travel found that Britons are switching back to traditional holiday destinations such as France in 2011.
This squares with figures published last week by the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), which showed that France remained the most popular place to go on holiday worldwide.
There are many cheap flights to Nice available from the UK, such as the easyJet service operating out of London Gatwick Airport, or KLM’s route to the southern French city from Edinburgh.
