Biarritz tourisme

Biarritz Tourisme
Biarritz Tourisme – tourism office and convention bureau, is delighted to offer its
congress centres to host your event.
Biarritz is a major European Conference destination, as experienced each year by
its many international conventions.
Biarritz is a prestigious and diverse town to welcome your delegates, with the
Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees Mountains on its doorstep.
Biarritz also boasts a high quality of accommodation, restaurants, caterers and
Professional Congress Organizers at your disposal.
We look forward to welcoming you soon.
Our Best Regards,
Biarritz Convention Bureau
Biarritz Tourisme
Biarritz Tourisme – Tourism Office and Convention Bureau :
• Established in 1996 as an EPIC
• 50 employees of which 20 are directly involved in the successful running of your event
(sales and marketing department, project managers, on-site technicians…)
• A dedicated Project Manager, able to act as the intermediary between you and our
local service providers for all your event needs.
• Catering, Accommodation, Audiovisual, Team-building activities…
SUMMARY
Access
Accommodation
Biarritz
Parties and Activities
Congress centers
References
THE DESTINATION
In the south-west of France :
• In the Basque Country
• On the Pyrenees
• On the Atlantic Coast
THE DESTINATION
Your transfers from the train station or the airport within 10 minutes:
• to the main Congress Centers
Biarritz
• to the hotels downtown
Airport
Highway
Train station
THE DESTINATION
3 airports
Helsinki
Oslo
Biarritz : Direct Lines
From France : Paris, Strasbourg,
Lyon, Nice, Marseille, Lille.
Copehnague
Brussels, Copenhagen, Dublin, Genova,
London, Birmingham, Bournemouth,
Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo…
Strasbourg
San Sebastian (at 20 minutes by
transfer)
Connexions with Barcelone &Madrid
Pau (à 1h15)
Direct Lines with Paris, Lyon, London &
Marseille
And Also, Bordeaux &Bilbao for other
connexions at only 2 hours by transfer,
Bordeaux
San Sebastian
Pau
San Sebastian
Madrid
Madrid
Latin America
Barcelone
Biarritz
Fishermen's port of whales, discovered by Eugénie De Montijo, Biarritz became the
fashionable meeting of the sea swimming at the end of the 19th century.
• At the heart of 3 cultures : Basque, French and Spanish
• Many magnificent mansion in the architecture « Art Déco » and « Belle
Epoque »
• A relaxed rythm of life and a pleasant climate all year long
• A cosmopolitan city which knew how to keep its authenticity
Economic environment
5 poles of competitiveness
• Aerospace Valley : aeronautics, space and embarked systems
• Prod’Innov : Processes and innovative products for the
nutrition and the health
• Alpha Route des Lasers : lasers
• Xylofutur : Maritime pine and the sector forest-wood-paper.
• Avenia: Geosciences in the service of the energy and of the
environment
City of the culture
Festivals
 FIPA Audiovisual
 Le Temps D’aimer Dance
 Le festival de Biarritz, cinema
and latin american culture
7 museums
Culturals centers

Chocolate Museum
 Dance studio

Sea Museum and Cité de
l’océan (museum and
attractions around ocean)
 Center of current music

Historical Museum

 Conservatoire
Asiatica Museum

Imperial church

Le Phare

Guggenheim (Bilbao)
 Media library
 College of Art
Capital of sports & health
Biarritz take care about sports and health , and propose many possibilities
Pelote Basque
Golf
21 specialities
12 golf
From “main nue”
to “Cesta Punta”
5 of the 6 best
golfs are available
with the Biarritz
Golf Pass
International training
center, Ilbarritz
Surfing
Rugby
10 surfing school
5 times winner of
higher french
12 month of pratical thechampionship
1 World championship of
Biarritz
Feminine longboard
Olympique (BO)
Biarritz Ocean
The history of Biarritz is inseparable of the ocean, fishing, thermal baths,
balneotherapy, thalassotherapy or glide, Biarritz it is the ocean and its environment.
La Cité de l’Océan
Musée de la Mer- Aquarium
• A playful, educational, interactive place for an
awareness of the maritime environment where
Ocean is presented as a human being.
• A unique museum anchored in the Bay of
Biscay 1 impressive diversity of fishes the
maritime history of Biarritz
• An auditorium of 105 seats and spaces of
exhibition
• A center of the Sea:
Center of scientific resources training center
THE DESTINATION
THE BASQUE COUNTRY
Land of Culture and Tradition
Ferias of Bayonne
Guggenheim, Bilbao
Museums
Festivals
Bodegas
Aquariums
Cultural Centers
THE DESTINATION
THE BASQUE COUNTRY
Land of Vitatily and Well Being
Golf
Thalasso
Spas
Rugby
Surf
Pelote Basque
THE DESTINATION
THE BASQUE COUNTRY
Land of Craftsmanship and Gastronomic delights
In 2009 the Basque Culinary Foundation Center has been
created with and thanks to the Mondragon Unibertsitatea,
the bask chefs and with publics institutions.
This center is located in San Sabastian with a university of
gastronomical science and a center of food and gastronomy
research and innovation.
San Sebastian count 16 Stars at the Michelin Guide shared
between 9 restaurants.
3 congress centers downtown
• Just a 3 minutes walk from each other
• Nearby numerous hotels
• Only a 2 miles drive from the airport, the railway station and the highway
Le Casino Municipal
La Gare du Midi
Le Bellevue
Le Bellevue
In exceptional historical buildings
up to 1200 people
Le Casino Municipal
4
AUDITORIUMS
from 230 to 1 400 seats
20
COMMITTEE ROOMS
Up to 550 guests
Le Bellevue
4
La Gare du Midi
CATERING AREAS
from 120 to 1100 seats
+ EXHIBITION HALL
Up to1200 sqm
Le Casino Municipal
This “Art Deco” building, offers in the evening
the charming vision of a coast artistically
revealed.
Casino Municipal
Up to 700 people
8
3
MEETING ROOMS
1
RECEPTION ROOM
1
Modular rooms from 100 to 180 people
EXHIBITION AREA
520 m²
Up to 550 seated people
AUDITORIUM
728 seats
Casino Municipal
Jardin d’hiver
(meeting and réception room)
The Ambassadeurs room
(dining, réception and meeting room)
Meeting room
Meeting room
Le Bellevue
Le Bellevue combines Belle Époque charm
with the latest facilities on two levels.
The Bellevue
7
MEETING ROOMS
from 42 to 180 guests
1
1
EXHIBITION AREA
1
500 sqm
AUDITORIUM
477 seats
RECEPTION ROOM
700 sqm
The Bellevue
Vagues rooms
2nd floor
Atlantique room
Rotonde room
1st floor
La Gare du Midi
This imperial former station is now a congress center
with all the best and modern equipment.
La Gare du Midi
Up to 1 400 people
2
AUDITORIUMS
1
EXHIBITION HALL
2
MEETING ROOMS
230 and 1400 seats
300 m²
Accommodation
More than 3 500 rooms, including 1 Palace, in Biarritz
Nearby the congress centers
Our PCO Agencies can help you to organize all the accommodation for your
event
3 500 bedrooms
3
5* HOTELS
13
4* HOTELS
22
3* HOTELS
14
2* HOTELS
288 rooms and
1 Palace
637 rooms
560 rooms
305 rooms
And more than 500 rooms in hotels residence 3* and 4*
Your parties
Ambassadeurs room at Casino Municipal
Ideally located for a Gala diner, in front of the Ocean with a beautiful view. Many
possibilities of hostings, band, DJ…
Basque evening : Miarritze Merkatua
Privatization of the Biarritz food market for a cocktail reception hosted by the
merchants… you’ll never see that !
Your parties
Diner in a Bask « Trinquet »
or Bask farm
Arcangues
Typical village, in 10 minutes of Biarritz, to live
one evening as a Bask parties, hosted with bandas
(typical musical group), men's choruses …
And in the restaurants
150
RESTAURANTS
75
EN CENTRE VILLE
9
1 * Michelin : les Rosiers, l’Hôtel du Palais,
l’Impertinent, l’Atelier
D’UNE CAPACITE
>A 100 PERSONNES
Gastronomy
Between three culinaries cultures :
Bask, Spanish and French
Plenty of quality restaurants and many Michelin
stars restaurants
Curiosities
Cultural and local discoveries
For your guests or your spare time, discover all the wealth of the
French and Spanish Basque Country
Basques towns, Fishing ports, Tasting of local products...
Leisure & incentives
The Bask Country is a great playground for your incentives : Surfing, Hawaian dugout,
canoe, sail, rafting, 4X4, rugby, golf, pelota, hikes