Business in Languedoc-Roussillon

Beautiful and lively, Languedoc-Roussillon’s towns provide an all-yearround welcome, so mix business with pleasure for a professional weekend or a week of enjoyment.

A forgiving climate allows Languedoc-Roussillon to welcome conferences and seminars, both national and international, in every season. Infrastructures fitted with the latest communication technologies in the towns, by the sea or in rural areas are available. Many organisations in the welcome and hospitality industry such as travel agencies and tourist offices specialising in business tourism contribute their professional skills to the organization of events ranging from 10 to several thousand participants.

These industry professionals offer, throughout the year, turnkey or ‘à la carte’ solutions, ranging from a simple hiring of space to the complete management of events (management of conference participants, exhibitions, accommodation, technical services, press services, post-conference organization etc). Conferences and seminars, bringing together a large number of participants are more suited to the infrastructures provided in the urban centres of the historic towns or in the coastal resorts. Smaller seminars as well as «incentive» groups can be organised in more convivial surroundings where work and leisure can be combined with the guarantee of the service level which these particular sessions demand. Evenings spent combining gastronomy and entertainment in unusual and exceptional locations will not be forgotten, where good-living and cultural heritage will enable all those involved in conferences to discover the wealth and authenticity of this region.

• Tourist boards
• Agencies
• Sites
• Convention Centers

Languedoc-Roussillon by car, train and plane

The region is easily accessible from southern Europe and the rest of France. From Paris to the regional capitals : Nimes, 669 km; Montpellier, 721 km ; Béziers, 793 km; Narbonne, 820 km; Carcassonne, 876 km ; Perpignan, 939 km. A wellknown motorway network (A6 to Lyon, then A7) and now the A75 and the very famous Millau viaduct. The Languedocienne motorway (A9) runs along the coastal area from Nimes to Spain, linking all the larger towns and coastal resorts of the region. The French railways network links the main stations of Languedoc-Roussillon with its TGV and Corail train services. Paris to Nîmes takes 3 hours by TGV and 3 hours 15 mins to Montpellier.

5 airports are to be found in the region (Nimes, Montpellier, Béziers, Carcassonne and Perpignan). Air France offers fifteen daily flights to Montpellier from Paris and also has direct flight services to Montpellier from Rennes, Nantes and Clermont-Ferrand. Air France serves Perpignan 4 times a day and also offers 6 flights a week to Béziers.