Organize your team building seminar in Lyon?

Organization working seminars in Lyon

List of seminar and congress venues in Lyon

Information for renting professional conference rooms, work meetings, or congresses in the Lyon region: Details on the reasons for organizing a seminar in Lyon, photos as well as quantified information on seminar rooms and hotels in Lyon and a list Lyon seminar rooms where you can organize your event. You will also find an access map there as well as details on the Team-Building activities that you can do in Lyon.

Contact our SOS Events service to organize a seminar or team building In Lyon (Tel: 01 64 33 33 33)

Why choose Lyon for your next team building seminar?

The city is placed at the heart of major roads national and European communications near Italy and Switzerland, the largest ski areas in the world, and several of the great French lakes. Lyon is also considered a high place of French gastronomy with its culinary specialties and its many starred restaurants.

To organize your meetings or seminars you will find in Lyon:
-2 international congress centers,
-An exhibition hall that can accommodate more than 5000 people,
-Original rooms, especially on barges on the banks of the Saône.

All major international hotel chains and around fifty spaces totally dedicated to congresses and business meetings (up to more than 1500 seats, with or without amphitheater) in numerous starred hotels with 20 to more than 300 rooms for residential seminars.

One can easily circulates in Lyon thanks to a large network of public transport: Metro, Tram, Bus. For additional outputs to the working meetings, Lyon is particularly rich in possibility of various activities.

All these assets makes Lyon and “Grand Lyon” a city where all types of congresses, seminars or simple work meetings will find the place that will give satisfaction.

Lyon's Aleutian institutions recommended by:

  • Arteloge Hotel Group : A superb collection of hotels offering a complete range of establishments ranging from 3 to 5 stars
  • Lyon Marriott International City : Superb 4-star hotel completely renovated offering a very good hotel offer with more than 200 rooms and ten meeting rooms.
  • Mercure Lyon Centre Château Perrache : An exceptional hotel to carry out all your professional events in a place of character.
  • Domain of Ruisseliere : A charming place particularly conducive to concentration for your tailor-made seminar.
  • Domaine de Gorneton : Located just 20 minutes from Lyon, it is an establishment conducive to calm and concentration.
  • Castle of Chavagneux : A prestigious setting to host your most beautiful receptions.
  • The Silk Pavilion : New space for seminars in the Rhône (69) Borrowing beauty and harmony, the Silk Pavilion adapts to all your business meetings.
  • Hall 22 : Opened in 2023, this brand new event complex has 2 meeting spaces, a restaurant and a wellness area with the possibility of organizing sports team building activities.
  • Mob Lyon Confluence Hotel : More than just a living space, the Mob Hôtel de Lyon is an ideal unifying establishment for organizing a residential seminar in Lyon.
  • Novotel Lyon Bron Eurexpo : Immerse yourself in a relaxed, friendly and warm atmosphere. The convention center & hotel, unique in Lyon, is ideal for your major events.
Opposite the meeting room of the Marriott de Lyon

Business tourism in Lyon

• Hotel park for residential seminars in Lyon: more than 7000 rooms spread over dozens of starred hotels.
• Number of participants in professional meetings: more than 50 business visitors each year.
• Event service providers: + 100 companies (caterers, printers, stand builders, etc.).
• Restaurants open to privatization for business meals: more than 100 restaurants
• Number of companies which organize each year a professional event or a company evening in Lyon: more than 1000.

Total seminar venues for city ​​of Lyon: more than 100 establishments equipped for organizing your event.

You can get more information about the city of Lyon on the website of theLyon Tourist Office

Seminars in Lyon in figures...

Next Meeting

Number of rooms 100 seats:> 200 rooms seminars, conferences and meetings
Number of rooms 101-250 places:> 30 rooms seminars, conferences and meetings
Number of rooms  251-1000 places:> 20 rooms seminars, conferences and meetings
Number of rooms 1001-5000 places:> 5 rooms seminars, conferences and meetings
Number of rooms more than 5000 places:> 2 rooms seminars, conferences and meetings

Opened in 2022, Kopster Groupama Stadium is a new hotel for residential seminars in Lyon (69)

Activities you can do in Lyon at your seminar ...

For the cohesion of the teams, Lyon also offers complementary activities of all types, in particular thanks to the very close mountains ...

Leisure activities and sports near Lyon:
Tête d'Or Zoological Park: 130 different animals roam freely over 2.5 hectares, a unique experience ...
3 parks Hooked-branches: Sara, City Adventure, AccesCimes
Many golf courses to motivate the most athletic
Sports challenges: archery, raid, bungee shooting ... All of which can be organized in the form of an Olympiad.
Water sports: kayaking, boat ...

Cultural activities:
Each year a large number of festivals take place in Lyon as well as various festivals among which we will particularly note the Fêtes des Lumières (all the main sites of the city are illuminated). Numerous performance halls and cinemas including the Auditorium hall and its opera, dance and theater shows. Possibility of discovering the riches of the city in the form of a treasure hunt, a quiz or turnkey incentive activities.

Atypical and fun team building activities:
Murder party for teamwork
Virtual escape game in augmented reality
Treasure hunt in line with the theme of your work seminar

Visits to the Museums of Lyon:
Printing Museum
History
Textile Museum
History center of the Resistance and Deportation in Lyon

History
Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon
Art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (modern and contemporary art)
Museum of Fine Arts
Archaeology - Decorative Arts - Fine Arts - extra-European civilizations
Musée des Hospices Civils de Lyon - Hôtel-Dieu
Decorative arts - History - Technology and Industry
Museum of firefighters Lyon Rhône
Ethnology, History, Technology and Industry
Gadagne Museum
Archaeology - Decorative Arts - Ethnology - History
Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière

Archaeology:
Natural History Museum
Natural Sciences
Automobile Museum Henri Malartre to Rochetaillée-sur-Saône

Access to LYON (69000) the day of your business meeting:

A 25 Km from the city center, the airport of Lyon Saint Exupéry is the crossroads of the Rhône-Alpes region. It serves more than one hundred destinations, half abroad. By TGV from Paris 2h (train every 1 30 minutes)

Access map

Lat: 45.764043

Long: 4.8356589

By Train:

 The city of Lyon is served daily by more than 1 100 international trains, National and regional, via the TGV stations Lyon Part Dieu, Perrache, putting the city a few hours from Paris, Brussels, London, Milan, Turin, Geneva, Lausanne, Marseille, Nice, Montpellier ...

By plane :

International airport Lyon Saint-Exupéry / 32 airlines provide direct international connections with more 100 destinations in the world.
Lyon-Bron for business or private flights.
The “lowcost” company Easy Jet serves 13 cities in Europe and France from LyonSaint-Exupéry. 3 other “low cost” companies provide connections to Morocco and Romania.

By road:

Lyon is located at the crossroads of highways joining the major cities of France, Italy or Switzerland.

Paris by A6
Marseille by A7
Clermont-Ferrand et St Etienne in A and A 89 47
Turin et Chambéry and by A A32 43
Metz et Nancy in A and A 31 6 (E 21)
Geneva 42 in A (E 62)