Tailor-Made Team Excursions in the Lake Geneva Region
Lausanne, Olympic capital, surrounded by the famous wine-growing regions “Lavaux” and “La Côte.” The holiday resorts of Montreux and Vevey lie picturesquely on Lake Geneva and offer top infrastructure and unique activities for incentives and conferences. Montreux is famous for its annual Jazz Festival. Lausanne is 45 minutes and Montreux 1 hour from Geneva International Airport. The Canton of Vaud offers unique activities for supporting programs and incentives. Whether it’s the winter sports destinations Les Diablerets (1151 m a.s.l.) with the glacier paradise Glacier 3000 and Leysin (1398 m a.s.l.). Gruyère Castle with the cheese of the same name and fame, a ride on the historic chocolate train including visits to a chocolate factory, a cheese dairy, or a winemaker. The salt or asphalt mines of Bex or the Jura. The city of Neuchâtel invites you to cellar visits, and Grandson Castle, alongside the medieval Zähringer city of Fribourg, which is only 40 km from Bern Airport, are among the insider tips from Executive Events.
- Steamboat party, mysterious city treasure hunt, Olympic gala evening, or visit to a watch museum
- Medieval castle feast, Vaudois evening in a wine cellar or chalet
- Dinner on a glacier, visit to the UN or the headquarters of the Red Cross in Geneva
- Discovery tour for wine, cheese, and chocolate gourmets by train, helicopter, or limousine
- Go-kart racing, seminar in the vineyards or salt mine, dining in museums, trendy venues, and clubs for parties and celebrations
- Scooter riding, alpine flower seminar on the Rochers-de-Naye, steam trains for railway romantics
- Train robbery in the Jura or covered wagon rides with asphalt ham feast, discover the green fairy or a frog museum
- Events, excursions, and programs to nearby France (Evian, Chamonix, Mont Blanc, Burgundy, etc.)
Valais
Rhônetal - Goms - Brig - Riederalp - Leukerbad - Zermatt-Matterhorn - Sion - Crans-Montana - Verbier - Martigny
Valais with its 47 four-thousand-meter peaks offers an excellent combination with the Lake Geneva region, Central Switzerland, Ticino, and Italy for incentives and round trips. The capital Sion of the UNESCO canton, with its own airport offering international connections and the proudly towering bishop’s castles, is the heart of Switzerland’s largest wine-growing canton with over 5,000 ha. The sun-drenched region offers world-famous summer and winter destinations: Verbier (1500 m a.s.l.), Crans-Montana (1500 m a.s.l.), or Zermatt (1620 m a.s.l.) at the foot of the world-famous Matterhorn (4477 m a.s.l.), are accessible from Geneva in 2–3 hours and from Sion Airport in 1 hour. The historic town of Brig on the Simplon Route is the capital of Upper Valais with the Goms Valley and the border station to Italy, and lies on the route of the world’s slowest express train, the Glacier Express, which connects Zermatt with St. Moritz in Grisons in 8 hours of Alpine railway romance.
Executive Events recommends Valais for seminars, incentives, group and themed trips with countless unforgettable culinary, scenic, and cultural highlights.
- Adventure, nature, and cultural experiences in Switzerland’s largest wine-growing canton – “in vino veritas”
- Raclette fun in the vineyard, bread baking in a Valais village, glacier tours, fun and team games, river rafting
- Conferences with summer or winter sports at the foot of the Matterhorn, hiking and biking tours
- Underground lake, stone pyramids, secrets, ghosts, legends, history, and curiosities, helicopter flights with glacier aperitif
- Culinary highlights from the saffron village to cheese to Europe’s highest vineyard at 1,200 m a.s.l. with the famous “Heida wine”
- Ski conference on a glacier, steam train ride over the Furka Pass to Central Switzerland, following in the footsteps of the Romans and Napoleon
- World-famous Saint Bernard dogs, pilgrimage site and treasure of St. Maurice, art experiences at Pierre Gianadda in Martigny
- Events, excursions, and programs to nearby Ticino and the Bernese Oberland or to Italy (Piedmont, Stresa, Milan, etc.)
