From international congresses to intimate incentives, few areas can match the beauty and variety of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva Region, comprised of the cities of Geneva, Lausanne and Montreux/Vevey. The Alpine region, with its ultra-modern facilities, is proving an irresistible destination for US and European conference and incentive groups of all sizes.
Outstanding restaurants, first-class accommodations and world-renowned skiing contribute to the region’s appeal as a meeting and incentive destination. A user-friendly international airport offers easy access to train and bus connections. And destination services, run with famed Swiss efficiency and friendliness, offer seamless logistical support.
European headquarters of the United Nations and birthplace of the Red Cross, Geneva is also home to Palexpo, the country’s largest convention center. Opened in 1981 and expanded in 1995, its 900,000 sq ft of exhibition space are adjacent to the Geneva Airport.
The Palexpo Congress Center is a two-level facility with about 50,000 sq ft of meeting space. Rounding out the package is the Geneva Arena (an extension of Palexpo exhibition hall 7), which seats 10,000 and offers 172,320 sq ft of exhibition space. Geneva has 15 five-star hotels. In fact, Geneva has more than 200 conference rooms and every year hundreds of thousands delegates visit seminars, conferences and expositions here.
The largest meeting space in Lausanne, center of a wine growing region about 40 miles from Geneva, is Beaulieu Lausanne.
For over 50 years now Beaulieu Lausanne has organized and hosted renowned trade fairs, conferences and cultural events.
The Convention Center has been entirely renovated in the last 8 years. It is now considered as a five stars venue by many clients not only because of the quality of its infrastructure but also for the high level of the offered services.
With 40 meeting rooms, 29 exhibition halls and an onsite parking garage located around a picturesque and quiet setting only a few minutes away walking distance from the heart of the City, our guests enjoy a charming and professional location to do business and to network.
Around splendid gardens are also restaurants, a theatre, a cinema and an underground car park. There are other convention facilities at the CHUV, the University and the EPFL, and others at the International Olympic Committee (headquartered in Lausanne), in some schools as well as in the larger hotels. Considered by many as one of the loveliest of Switzerland’s cities, Lausanne’s famed cathedral dates back 700 years. The city boasts 40 hotels with some 3,500 beds.
Forty-five miles up the lake, the French-speaking resort city of Montreux/Vevey offers the Convention and Exhibition Center, with a total of 194,000 sq ft of exhibit and conference space. The tiered Stravinsky Auditorium seats up to 2,500. Dubbed the "Swiss Riviera" because of its mild climate, casinos and music festivals, Montreux is especially popular among incentive groups