More than 1,200 athletes from 30 countries are expected at the Atlantic Ocean resort in the south-west of the country.

The tournament will be held in association with BULA, the WFDF's official beach ultimate and beach lifestyle partner, and will run until June 24.

This year's event will be the fifth edition.

Figueira da Foz in Portugal hosted the first tournament in 2004, followed by Maceio in Brazil in 2007 and Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy in 2011.

The last World Championship was held in Dubai in 2015, where the United States won both the open and women's team gold medals and Germany took the mixed title.

Royan has hosted the National French Beach Championships six times since 2009.

WFDF President Robert Rauch claimed 200 entries for the competition were submitted and as a result, team sizes and registrations have been restricted, with 15 players in each side alongside one non-playing member.

Earlier this week the WFDF announced plans to live-stream 120 games through simultaneous coverage of three pitches.

Action from the main venue, a 4,000-seat arena, will be covered by five cameras and will be free to watch.

The action from pitches two and three will be hosted on Fanseat.com, which requires a subscription but does offer a free one-month trial.

WFDF is also partnering with leading Facebook portal and sports platform UNILAD, which will present several games and short features to its viewership of one billion weekly worldwide users.

Alterations to rules in the discipline of beach ultimate were approved by the WFDF Board of Directors in April and will be used in Royan.

The changes, which include setting the length of timeouts to 90 seconds with one permitted per game, and using fluorescent yellow game discs in all matches which are broadcast, came into effect on April 1.