Organisez un séminaire écologique à la montagne : conseils et astuces

By choosing to organize your next environmentally friendly corporate seminar in the mountains, you will be able to enjoy many advantages. 

Of course, your employees will be able to enjoy a magnificent natural setting, which will be a big change from the usual urban setting of the daily professional routine. Thus, by being away from all urban agitation, you encourage your employees to concentrate on the essentials, and this with less effort because there is no source of deconcentration and external stress related to the environment.

In addition, sustainable development and respect for the environment are two key values of today's society, so your company will show an important interest and above all a commitment to society as a whole. Thus, you can organize your corporate seminar while being in line with CSR values throughout your event. 

Regarding the more human aspect, the mountain setting is a source of productivity, because the setting is so exotic that it will strongly impact your employees. In addition to this productive aspect, they will also be more inclined to interact with other members of your teams and thus create internal links within the company. Thus, by organizing your seminar in the mountains, you may decide to set your new objectives or even launch a new project following this corporate event.

If sustainable development is something essential for your company, you can also give a boost to the local economy of companies offering services in line with your values, by contracting with companies close to your destination.

In order to respect the environment as much as possible, it is essential that you find the place that corresponds to your expectations and defends the same values as you. The objective is therefore to find an establishment capable of offering personalized services whose activity will have a positive or neutral impact on the environment. 

This is particularly the case with ecolodges, a type of chalet that adapts to its environment and not the other way around.  This type of place is particularly known for its low energy consumption and therefore will allow you to have a relatively low ecological footprint during this seminar. 

If you want to offer a friendly setting to your employees, you could also privatize a chalet, offering at the same time a total change of scenery. 

On the other hand, accommodation establishments committed to respecting the environment will be able to offer or organize activities and Team Building for your seminar adapted to the destination and ecological setting.

These places are often prestigious places, which allows you to both offer your employees to enjoy a unique experience, and therefore to have a positive impact on their well-being at work.

Transportation is one of the factors that will play the biggest role in your ecological footprint related to a corporate seminar. Indeed, a group of people sometimes has to travel across the entire country. There are greener transportation options than others, so it is important to organize and compare them well. 

The train is for example the transport with the lowest carbon footprint, polluting 23 times less than the same trip by plane, which therefore pollutes more. 

You could also, for example, encourage your employees to carpool to get to your seminar location and develop both the links between your employees and reduce their carbon footprint and the cost of transportation. 

If you decide to take care of the transportation globally, you can also rent a bus depending on the distance between the city where your company is located and your seminar destination in the mountains.

Once there, you can encourage your employees to favor green transportation such as cycling, in order to push the commitment even once on site during the company stay. By traveling by bike, your employees will be able to both perform a physical activity, and therefore allow them to feel good.

You will have understood, it is important to choose a mode of transport that is eco friendly and especially in line with the values of your company in order to best illustrate your ecological commitment.

With the aim of holding an ecological seminar in the mountains, it is also very important that you book activities and restaurants that are also committed to sustainable development.

For activities, mountains obviously mean outdoor activities. You can organize different types of team building with your teams once there.

You could perhaps organize a hike, mountain walking can be very beneficial both for your employees individually and for the company as a whole by strengthening your team's bonds through this experience.

This way, you can all enjoy nature and the magnificent landscapes of the mountains with activities that respect the environment.

For catering, many establishments in the mountains decide to work with local producers, which allows you to enjoy both local and quality products. By making this choice, these restaurants also have a lower carbon footprint with limited transport and products that do not come from the other side of the world.

You can therefore find establishments offering menus that work with these producers but also with seasonal products. With the aim of organizing an ecological seminar in the mountains, you can therefore observe the menus offered and choose the establishments accordingly.