City of the Wind - La Cité du Vent

Association Eole
presents
City of the Wind
The largest landsailing site in Europe
at the foot of Mont-Ventoux in Provence - France
 190 days of wind and 2600 hours of sunshine per year
 Pristine land and sustainable environment policy
 A Communiversity: creates jobs, learning facilities and incubator for new business
www.cityofthewind.com
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City of the Wind
The project
 Create the largest landsailing basis in Europe with its natural complementary
activities: Sports and outdoor recreation, Agriculture and Eco-tourism
 Make our Region a European leader of the sport-tourism activity developing a
young, active, international clientele that perfectly complements the existing
tourism activities: cycling (the Ventoux challenge!), world famous wineries and
black truffles... creating at least 200/300 jobs FTE
 At City of the Wind Communiversity, people from all walks of life and all ages
come together to collaborate, to engage in the flow of ideas and to make
discoveries that ultimately extend benefits outside the walls of the City.
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City of the Wind
The exponential growth of the market of landsailing sports and recreation (Sail
and Kite) offers a unique opportunity to create an 100 acres outdoor site and
Communiversity comprising:
Landsailing:
 tracks of natural grassland
Eole Farm complementary activities:
 teaching Sport and Nature, animal farm activities, beekeeping, exhibit of
sustainable energy creation, companies incubator…
 Classrooms, exhibition center, learning facilities,
 Restaurants, Hotels, Camping,
 regional products and organic products market,
 Craft Center: Art, exhibitions, Culture of Mediterranean plants...
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City of the Wind
Sun and Mistral
The Provencal geographical area of Northern Vaucluse and Southern Drôme has record
sunshine (2600 h/year) and at least 150 days of wind per year, mainly Mistral, a natural asset to
Eole Farm in addition to existing tourist potential that includes cycling (Ventoux...) and wineries
activities.
It is located from the South of Montelimar (26) to the North of Orange (84), close to the
network formed by motorways (A7 and A8), railways (TGV Avignon and Valence, TER Montélimar,
Orange, Bollène) and airport (Valencia, Avignon, Nîmes, Montpellier, Marseille). This region is a
focus of tourist migration from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean, Spain and Italy. The winter
rigors are free of moisture: cold is dry and easily bearable when one practices an outdoor activity
wearing a windbreaker wax. Summer is hot and dry.
The mistral is a dominant powerful Northerly wind. It takes birth in depressions of the North
Sea or in the Golf in Genoa. The plain of Valencia, strongly heated compared with neighboring
landforms (Alps and Massif central), form a call for air. The mistral strength builds up to Orange.
Then, arriving in areas of more homogeneous temperature, it decreases rapidly.
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City of the Wind
190 days with medium/strong wind each year
Days with average wind speed of more than 20 knots
Nombre de jours avec vent moyen ≥ 35 km/h (Rafales ≥ 45 km/h)
janv.
fev.
mars
avr.
mai
juin
juil.
août
sept.
oct.
nov.
2015
22
22
15
13
20
16
13
10
22
17
2014
13
17
17
20
22
15
20
14
16
13
2013
21
20
15
15
17
18
12
15
17
2012
20
28
18
18
14
14
15
15
17
2011
18
17
11
16
17
16
16
11
13
2010
19
17
18
9
18
13
17
17
14
2009
15
23
20
13
12
19
17
18
15
2008
19
6
22
20
8
15
11
18
14
Moyenne
18
19
17
16
16
16
15
15
somme
147
150
136
124
128
126
121
118
Source : Armée de l ’Air BA 115 Orange
dec.
Année
18
3
191
10
21
198
13
18
15
196
11
12
16
198
17
8
17
177
15
13
18
188
19
7
18
196
11
20
18
182
16
15
13
16
191
128
116
106
126
1526
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City of the Wind
LandSailing: Buggy Kite and LandSailer
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Buggy Kite
3 wheels Landsailers: solo, family biplace, Kids
Mountainboard (4 wheels - Kite),
Power-Kite (2 wheels)
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Landsailing
• Family Landsailers
• Handisport
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Landsailing
• Kite Surfing
• LandSailers
• Buggy Kite
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Kite-Surfing
• Rapidly developing Landsailing activities require land facilities that City of the
Wind satisfies: land, sun and wind combined. At a crossroads of various sports
such as skiing, surfing, windsurfing, snowboarding and kite, kitesurfing is an
easy-to-learn-discipline. Within a week, students can practice properly and be
quasi-autonomous.
• On the seaside, Kitesurfing is only allowed at offshore (300 meters from the
beach and up to a mile from the shore), as well as within areas specifically
dedicated.
• Its practice is prohibited within swimming areas. During summer season,
practicing kitesurfing therefore appears complicated when combined with
swimming activities. It is usually possible only from 6 pm. Hence its
developments inland.
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City of the Wind
Situated at the heart of Provence
Une heure
Le Pont du Gard
1 400 000
½ heure
¼ d’heure
Montélimar
130 000
La Ferme aux Crocodiles
300 000
La Grotte Chauvet
XXX
Moins d’une heure
Château de Grignan
160 000
Arènes de Nîmes
320 00
Le Palais des Papes Avignon
560 00
Vaison la Romaine
City of the Wind
Le Ventoux
1 000 000 +
Arles
300 000
Théâtre Antique d’Orange
200 000
Sources : CDT / CRT ; Visiteurs/an
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City of the Wind
7,6 millions inhabitants and 22 millions tourists/year
Within 2 hours
Habitants
Bouches du Rhône :
Vaucluse :
Ardèche :
Drôme :
Rhône :
Loire :
Hérault :
Gard :
Tourisme
en million de séjours/an
1 980 000
550 000
320 000
500 000
1 700 000
750 000
1 100 000
720 000
7 620 000
Source CDT ou CRT
Bouches du Rhône :
Vaucluse :
24,2
Hérault :
Gard :
Drôme :
Ardèche :
50,6
37,2
20,0
7,8
16,1
155,9*
Soit environ 22 millions de visiteurs
dont 5,5 millions d’étrangers (25%)
* Hors Rhône-Alpes à 93,0 hors sports hiver et Drôme
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City of the Wind
Easy access to 900 000 pupils
Elèves
≤ 11 ans
Elèves
11 à 18 ans
1er Cycle
2ème Cycle
Total
Gard
Hérault
Vaucluse
Ardèche
Drome
BdR
73
105
57
31
52
202
36
52
38
27
41
177
109
157
95
58
93
379
Total
520
371
891
en Milliers
Sources: Académies Aix-Marseille, Montpellier, Grenoble
* Sans l’agglomération lyonnaise
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City of the Wind
Total Attendance Forecast
clientèle cible
Jours/an
vent
disponibles
vacances adultes, WE, ponts, jours fériés,
RTT…
Jours
Nb
Sessions
Nb
Nb
participants passages
activité/an
par jour
par session
par jour
Nb
Passages
par an
150
55%
82,5
4
50
200
16500
adultes : séminaires…
2 jours/semaine * 38
semaines/an
76
55%
41,8
2
30
60
2508
individuels vacances scolaires (hors WE)
18 semaines/an * 5 jours
90
55%
49,5
4
50
200
9900
centre aéré - parascolaire
50 semaines/an * 5 jours
250
55%
137,5
1
20
20
2750
pédagogique scolaire
40 semaines/an * 3 jours
120
55%
66
1
25
25
1650
classes vertes
4 mois*4 semaines*7 jours
112
55%
61,6
2
25
50
3080
touristes étrangers
6 mois/an *7 jours/semaine
180
55%
99
4
18
25
100
9900
46288
With approximately 50 000 users per year and an average of more than 2 accompanying persons per user,
The resort should see an attendance of 150 000 to 200 000 in total per year.
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City of the Wind
Eole Farm Services
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Restaurant (Brasserie, Regional products…)
Snacks, Cafés…
Ferme Eole® Boutique
Kindergarden
Hairdressers/ Beauty/Spa
Hotels
Cycling and horse riding
Camping, tennis
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City of the Wind
Eole Farm Local Products
• Exhibition and sale of local products
• Market reserved for local producers
• Specialities of aromatic plants (lavander…), black truffles, wines, olive
oils…
• Demonstration of Beekeeping
• Gastronomic / cooking lessons
• Cultivating rare local plants
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City of the Wind
Learning in a Communiversity
• Exhibition of research and demonstrators of renewable energies.
• Business Incubator on sport, energy, ecology…
• Extra curriculum activities for school children: Ecology and renewable
energies…
• Children’s Interactive Museum
• Conference centre, auditorium…
In liaison with
from Gainesville (GA) - USA
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Eole Association
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President: Roland Icard
roland@ferme-eole.com
+ 33 4 90 37 33 38
Retired from Gendarmerie Nationale. Pioneer in windsurfing (1978). Inventor. Silver medal at the international exhibition of invention
and new techniques of Geneva 1981. Supported by ANVAR.
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Vice-Président Administration: François Carrière
francois@ferme-eole.com
+33 9 61 21 48 78
Rouen Business School/ Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania . Former Company Director for Saint-Gobain, Le Printemps,
Krups-Moulinex, Cap Gemini, Hogg Robinson… France, Great-Britain, USA, Switzerland, and Russia.
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Vice-Président Education/Recherche: Vincent Méjean vincent@ferme-eole.com
+ 33 4 91 16 41 99
Director of research at CNRS - Laboratoire de Chimie bacterial Marseille. Author of numerous scientific works.
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Vice-Président Fédération / Sport: Louis Poretti
louis@ferme-eole.com
+ 33 6 78 32 52 78
Retired from Gendarmerie Nationale. Former Chairman of the departmental Committee Olympic and sports of Marseille region.
President Delegate of the Provence of Rugby Committee.
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Vice-Président Communication et IT: Benjamin Xambo benjamin@ferme-eole.com
ENSI de CAEN - Architect in infrastructure IT at Credit Agricole insurance.
+33 6 49 10 56 60
Présidents d’Honneur:
– Charles DAHER Pioneer windsurfing (1973). Founder of Pacific Palisades in Marseille. Registration of windsurfing in the French
sailing federation.
– André HAUCK Pioneer windsurfing (1973). Baptized Epluchure Beach spots at Marseille and Brutal Beach at Six Four.
Association Eole N° W842003786 - JO n° 1588 du 31 Mars 2012. Siret 797 899 085 00014
Contact: roland@ferme-eole.com tél : +33 4 90 37 33 38 5 av de Valréas 84600 Grillon www.ferme-eole.com
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