Christian Bèzes, moved at the time of saying goodbye. MIDI LIBRE – MICHEL DESNOS
After 36 years spent within the structure, including 23 as director, he said goodbye to tourism professionals during the ceremony of vows, which took place on Thursday, January 23 at the Château Laurens. Emotion guaranteed.
He has officially ceased to be the director of the Cap d’Agde Méditerranée tourist office since December 31, but we haven’t seen the last of him yet. By accepting the mission entrusted by Sébastien Frey to ensure the overlap with his successor Hugo Alvarez and the monitoring of major ongoing projects two days a week, Christian Bèzes will now live “a relative retirement.” Which does not surprise us at all, he who has dedicated part of his life, and the term is in no way exaggerated, to the proper functioning of the structure and, more broadly, to the influence of Cap d’Agde.
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A smooth start, which did not prevent the ceremony of wishes to tourism professionals from taking a very moving turn when he spoke for a good fifteen minutes. “Exceptionally, we are not going to look back on the past year, but on the years that have passed”, warned Christian, who recalled the circumstances of his arrival in the resort, from the phone call from the former mayor Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu in 1988, to his 23 years spent at the head of the OT. Continuing the football metaphor, one could even say that he is a one-club man, he, the graduate of Sciences Po Grenoble, holder of a doctorate in tourism economics and law, who had started his professional career at La Côte-Saint-André, in Isère, before applying to the tourist office, which was no coincidence. “My parents have been coming to Cap d’Agde on holiday since 1974”, he recalled.
Tribute to Claude Siegfried and his colleagues
There was emotion when Christian Bèzes recalled the memory of his former boss, Claude Siegfried: “he gave me the most solid foundations of the profession”, the technician revealed. “I have a special thought for him and everything he did for the station.” Emotion again when paying tribute to the forty or so colleagues who accompanied him during all these years. In the first rows of the audience, many eyes were misty. One would even swear that the statuette of the Ephebe of Agde that was given to him, also went there with its little tear.
The first declarations of the new director of the tourist office, Hugo Alvarez, will be to be read in our edition of Wednesday, January 29.
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