MONTPELLIER MEDITERRANEE CONVENTION BUREAU

Montpellier the Place to Business!


Montpellier is a city of medicine and also at the cutting edge of research activities and the digital economy. It offers all the facilities required for high profile national and international events and all types of business meetings, always with a promise of excellence. You want to organize a congress, convention, incentive or any other meeting in Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Southern France? Montpellier Méditerranée Convention Bureau’s team offers you a unique and free interlocutor. We qualify your needs in order to orientate you to our most fitted partners (location, accommodation, catering, transport…), for success of your event.

Famous places :

  • Montpellier has become the 7th biggest city in France (1st metropolis for demographic growth in France)
  • Montpellier : France’s largest pedestrian area and largest tramway network (4 lines, line 4 designed by Christian Lacroix…)
  • Faculty of Medicine : the oldest medical school in the West that is still functioning.
  • A unique example of controlled and equitable urban development in Europe thanks to the contribution of famous modern architects (New City Hall designed by Jean Nouvel and François Fontès, New Faculty of Medicine by Fontès, The White Tree Tower by Sou Fujimoto, Pierre Vives by Zaha Hadid…)


What’s new in Montpellier for 2019?


Destination Montpellier is capitalising on its buzz and boldness by enhancing the city’s high-end offer with the openings of the MOCO – MOntpellier COntempory art centre, the Jardin des Sens restaurant, the Marché du Lez and Laissac markets, the Halle Tropisme creative workspace, the Arbre Blanc an architectural landmark, to name just these.

  • Focus on the MOCO : Montpellier’s contemporary art centre
    Late June 2019: opening of Hôtel Montcalm (3,500 m² close to Saint Roch railway station). This new contemporary art venue joins the national school of fine arts and the Panacée to form the MOCO, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole’s centre for contemporary art.
    The MOCO is open in spirit, there for everyone and unapologetically innovative, adding to Montpellier’s natural cultural appeal, making this Mediterranean city a leading light of contemporary art and a prized cultural destination. Stylist and business owner, Vanessa Bruno, is President. Nicolas Bourriaud, art critic, co-founder of the Tokyo Palace and former Director of Paris École des Beaux-Arts, is the Director.
    Don’t miss: the launch of the “100 Artists in the City – ZAT 2019” exhibition-event on 8 June 2019 and until 28 July. 100 works by artists will be on display throughout the Écusson historic centre. These pop-up installations are free to view while links will also be established with the town of Sète and its artist community.

  • Halle Tropisme, a new creative cluster
    This new 4,000m² complex is part of plans for a “Cité Créative”. It’s a showcase for creative and cultural enterprise, a sector that is set to grow over the coming years.
    The building dates back to 1913 when it was used by the army for its mechanical workshops. Now it has become a cultural and entrepreneurial centre, open daily to the public from 18 January 2019 for special events or simply for spending a pleasant moment in the Café Tropisme. This ecosystem brings together cultural players and more generally, creative and cultural enterprise. From January 2019, each resident will be able to work, do business and live in a smart, mutually beneficial, creative and inspiring setting.

  • Re-opening of the Jardin des Sens
    NOVEMBER 2019: the POURCEL brother’s “Jardin des Sens” has had a makeover and will reopen in autumn 2019. Located on Place de la Canourgue, in the 17th century Hôtel Richer de Belleval (once the city hall), this high-end Relais & Châteaux-listed establishment has 18 rooms, a fine-dining restaurant, a bistro, champagne bar, reception room (in the former wedding room) and an outdoor terrace.

  • The Arbre Blanc
    Architecture and fine-dining
    A new plant has taken root right in the heart of the new and modern Port Marianne neighbourhood. The Arbre Blanc, is a building designed by architects, Sou Fujimoto, Nicolas Laisné and Manal Rachdi. Popular with both architecture and culinary enthusiasts it will feature a brand new restaurant on the first-floor by Charles FONTES (Michelin-starred chef from the Réserve Rimbaud) and Eric CELLIER, (Chef at the La Maison de la Lozère gourmet restaurant), which is set to open in mid-2019. There will also be a tapas bar on one of the panoramic terraces on the 17th floor!

  • Marché du Lez
    The Marché du Lez is a creative hot-spot that opened in 2016 on the banks of the River Lez and continues to grow!
    After the addition of a food truck village in 2018, plans are afoot for the Halles Gourmandes food hall, scheduled for spring 2019. This is definitely the new place to be in Montpellier!

  • Hôtel Plage Palace
    Hôtel Plage Palace lies between Palavas and Carnon, close to the Camargue, just 5 minutes from Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport and the new TGV railway station. This venture by the Costes brothers has been designed by Imaad Rahmouni and François-Joseph Graf from the Buttazzoni Agency. It opened in July 2018 and has 70 rooms and suites, a restaurant, a 27-metre heated pool, a spa with its own pool and the hotel beach just behind. Phase 2 of the development is underway and is scheduled to open in April 2019.
    GOOD TO KNOW
    Once the Jardin des Sens and the Hôtel Plage Palace open in 2019, Montpellier will have no fewer than three 5-star rated hotels, together with Domaine de Verchant, set deep in the vineyards and just 5 km from the city centre.

  • Laissac: a new, stylish city centre food hall opens
    The new Halles Laissac (food hall) opened on 1st December 2018, right in the centre of Montpellier. The building has been designed as the fulcrum of a shopping experience that includes the Grand’Rue Jean Moulin (currently being renovated), ongoing improvements to the Rue du Faubourg du Coureau, the Rue du Faubourg de la Saunerie and the Boulevard du Jeu de Paume, in conjunction with a pedestrianised square and the surrounding neighbourhoods.
    Taste and beauty is the hallmark of the Halles, with the introduction of an art installation on the underside of the rooflight and external glazing. It depicts a fruit, a melon, which refers to the building’s architecture, the Mediterranean heat and connects with the 24 market stalls in the building.


ACCOMMODATION

3* 4* 5*
NUMBER OF HOTELS 35 16 2
NUMBER OF ROOMS 1913 1450 57
CAPACITY OF THE LARGEST 125 162 31


CONGRESS CENTRE-MEETING ROOMS

-250 de 251 à 500 de 501 à 1000 +1000
NUMBER OF MEETINGS ROOMS 169 7 11 7

Le Corum Congress Centre: 3 auditoriums (318 745 and 2 000 seats), 25 rooms, 6 000 sqm Sud de France Arena : 7 500 seats, 5 000 sqm Parc des Expositions : 10 halls, 1 conference centre, 60 000 sqm (indoor) and 70 000 sqm (outdoor) Le Zénith Sud : 1 000 - 6 000 seats


ACCESS

Only 1h10 from Paris, Montpellier Méditerranée Airport: 24 regular flights to 21 international destinations (Amsterdam-Schipol, Munich and London) and daily flights to 9 destinations in France. Saint-Roch train station downtown is 3h15 from Paris, 1h30 from Marseille and 2h30 from Barcelona by HST.

Contact

Marie-Charlotte Ortega
Convention Bureau Manager
+33 427040442 / +33 673144980