DMC / Seminars
Competitiveness, relaxation, stimulation, creativity, exploration, team building, the Rhône-Alpes region presents several incentive destinations full of news ideas for motivating your teams.
The Bike and See company was established in May, renting out electric bikes for groups of up to 40 people to discover Lyon. Groups can choose to explore on their own, making use of their individual iPhones which offer a GPS multimedia guide to the city or, if preferred, in the company of an experienced guide. As part of its marketing strategy, the company participated at the first edition of ...
Once a fortified manor house situated in the Combe de Savoie, close to the thermal centre and casino at Challes-les-Eaux, the Château des Comtes de Challes was bought in 2002 by the Trèves family, who own the luxury hotel Les Grandes Alpes in Courchevel 1850. The family has spent over 2 million euros in transforming [...]
La Plateforme is a former oil barge which operated between Marseille and Lyon over a 30-year period before becoming, in 2005, one of Lyon’s trendiest event venues. Moored right in the heart of the city, on the Rhône’s left bank, it offers 600 m2 of space divided into four separate areas, with capacity for groups [...]
Set up by Valéry Leblond, a qualified mountain guide, this agency specialises in organising seminar and team building events. It is based close to the TGV station in Valence and has made the Vercors its “playground†of choice. Specialising in team building activities, its two main areas of expertise are night-time orienteering courses on the [...]
The Lyon-based agency Front de Neige, an established partner in the competition ski world, has also built a reputation for handling VIP trips to some of the biggest snow events. Offering a range of services, including sports marketing consultancy, event organising plus seminar and corporate travel business, the agency now shares its offices with Malls, another agency, and Vodka Fraise, a design ...
This Annecy-based agency now boasts six offices, four of which are in the Rhône-Alpes, and has plans to set up new ones in a number of other sites. Seminar business represents 60% of its activity, which explains the addition of new products aimed at encouraging loyal companies to book again. New products this year include a teepee village in La Féclaz and an igloo hamlet at the Col des Aravis.
Having only arrived in Lyon five years ago, Domitille Durrenberger has fallen head over heels in love with the city. She now shares her passion for its streets and neighbourhoods with corporate seminar clients via her agency, Un instant de ville , which offers a host of great ways to explore the real Lyon.
With an office in Aix-les-Bains and a branch in Paris, the Montélimar-based agency Latitude Organisation mainly specialises in organising seminars which make up 80% of its business. It counts a number of the biggest national companies amongst its clientele and works on about 60 projects a year in France and abroad.
Established ten years ago by a Northerner who fell in love with both the Savoie and paragliding, the Darentasia agency is located in Bourg-Saint-Maurice and specialises in all sorts of aerial, snow and white water sports. The agency also has its own accommodation available, making it the perfect partner for any business tourism event in the Tarentaise.
MPI (Meeting Professionnals International), which boasts the title of the largest international association of event organisers, now has two branches in the Rhône-Alpes - one in Grenoble and the other in Lyon. Maguy Sicuro, owner of the Isère-based agency Sicuro Events, introduces the association and the role it plays in the world of event organisation.