Which organization currently organizes the Tour de France?

The Amaury Sport Organisation, usually abbreviated ASO, currently organizes the Tour de France. It is a French sports-event company within the privately owned Amaury media group.

ASO’s role is broader than the men’s Tour. It also manages or promotes major events such as the Tour de France Femmes, Paris-Roubaix, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Paris-Nice and the Dakar Rally. The company handles the practical and commercial machinery behind races, including route planning, host-city relationships, sponsorship and event operations.

The Tour’s organizational history is older than ASO. The race began in 1903 as a promotional project for the newspaper L’Auto. After the Second World War, the newspaper L’Équipe took over its organization. The Amaury group later acquired L’Équipe, and the Tour’s organizing structure became part of ASO in 1993.

A frequent mix-up is the Union Cycliste Internationale, or UCI. The UCI governs international cycling and sets sporting regulations, but it does not organize the Tour itself. ASO runs the event under the UCI’s competition framework.