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Old Jun 5, 2015 | 2:55 pm
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Originally Posted by AA_EXP09
NCE I would actually say is a business destination (I know that there was a real estate conference in Cannes, a film festival also in Cannes, and many events in Monaco.)
Indeed, although Nice itself is a busier business destination than either of those. Nice has the second largest conference facility in France. The area also has a very intense concentration of high tech industry, including the main European centre for IBM, multiple pharmaceutical research centres, and - dear to the heart of all FTers, the headquarters of Amadeus!
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