Nice: your sunny seminar on the French Riviera

Baroque in style, Nice has kept the charm of its Savoyard period, with its many palaces, mansions and churches. A picture city, which benefits from a very mild climate all year round and where the dolce vita Mediterranean cities. Although Nice is the second largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region behind MarseilleIt is nevertheless the economic and cultural capital of the region. Rich in numerous assets - tourism, commerce, location... - it is also the city of France, after Paris, with the largest hotel capacity. Every year, it welcomes nearly four million tourists who come to stroll along the famous Promenade des Anglais and enjoy the view of the Baie des Anges.

Nice is also the second largest congress centre after Paris with large buildings such as the recently renovated Nice Acropolis congress and exhibition centre and leader in exhibition and convention centres on the French Riviera. Business tourism accounts for 10 % of annual visitors.

Accessibility

Nissa - in nissart, the name of the local occitan - also hosts France's second largest airport with 9.6 million passengers. Built on the sea, Nice-Côte d'Azur International Airport welcomes 33 airlines and serves 100 destinations in 73 countries. An opening to the world that makes it the strategic gateway to the entire region. And it also has the advantage of being only 15 minutes from the city centre and the various possible locations for a business meeting. The city is also connected to the major European conurbations thanks to an important motorway network and the cities of Monaco, Sainte-Maxime and Cannes are very easy to reach from the central railway station.

The Accor network in Nice

If you wish to organize your seminar or convention in a hotel in this pearl of the Côte d'Azur, the Accor network offers a wide choice of 24 hotels specializing in this type of event. From the most economical (ibis budget, ibis and ibis Styles) to mid-range hotels (NovotelNovotel Suites, Novotel Suites and Mercure,) through the ApartHotels Adagio and Adagio Access. Hotels ideally located in the heart of Nice or close to the train station and the airport to get to the venue of your seminar as quickly as possible.

Incentive ideas in Nice

Thanks to the diversity of the relief of the French Riviera region, many sports activities are available to you, such as hiking, mountain biking, canyoning, speleology or golf. As far as incentives are concerned, the city of Nice is full of cultural proposals. The city has 14 museums and galleries, including the Matisse museum located in the gardens of the hill of Cimiez where the painter liked to walk, the MAMAC, a museum of modern and contemporary art from the 50s to today, or the archaeology museum, which houses finds from prehistory to the Middle Ages.

In short, if you are looking for a pleasant and sunny setting, Nice is ideal for organizing a seminar.