The Centre de Congrès Impérial - Grand Annecy hosts congresses, conferences, seminars, general assemblies, product launches and exhibitions for 10 to 600 people. It has 19 modular rooms over several levels, a main hall with a stage and translation booths, and a restaurant seating up to 400. It stands on the shore of Lake Annecy, a few minutes on foot from the town center.
Seminars and company events
The center lists congresses, seminars, general assemblies, product launches, symposia and Christmas parties among its events. Its sales team, which the site says has more than twenty years of experience, helps with room choice, set-up, coffee breaks and meals. The rental of rooms and the technical services are handled in-house by its own teams.
All rooms offer a paperboard, a blotter, a pen and a notepad. Technical equipment such as a screen, projector, microphone, lectern, sound, lighting and a podium is available as an extra. Simultaneous translation, video conferencing and live streaming can be arranged. Rooms have natural light, and several have lake views.
Rooms and capacities
The main space combines the Salle de l'Europe, the Rotonde de l'Europe and the Foyer on level 1. The hall and rotunda seat up to 600 in theater style across 562 m². It has an 82 m² stage with a lifting platform, two artist dressing rooms, a full audio, video and lighting control room, two simultaneous translation booths and a 10,000-lumen projector. The Foyer de l'Europe, 256 m², is used for exhibitions of about thirty stands, coffee breaks or cocktails, with a terrace facing the park, the lake and the mountains.
Level 2 has the Salle Annecy Congrès for about twenty people, suited to an organizer's office or a preview room. Level 3 has six lounges and a 172 m² terrace for breaks or receptions. Verdi A and B can be joined into a 192 m² room, and the Tente Impériale takes 140 people for a cocktail. Level 4 has Wagner A and the Petit Salon for board meetings, and Salon Prestige, with lake-view windows, takes up to 24 in conference style. Level 5 holds Ravel A and B, 192 m² together, for up to 196 people.
Accommodation
The center has no bedrooms of its own. The site says more than 3,000 rooms are available around Lake Annecy.
Catering
The restaurant Bleu Impérial, on level 0, has 280 indoor seats and 120 on the terrace, so up to 400 people can be seated. It serves a weekly menu and can supply buffets, banquets, cocktails and coffee breaks, hot or cold, sweet or savory, for events or for a privatization of the premises.
History and setting
The center is housed in a historic building of Annecy, with terraces and balconies over the park, the lake and the mountains. It also hosts trade shows and fairs, among them a Christmas market, a real estate show and an international animated-film market.
Getting there
The address is Allée de l'Impérial, 74000 Annecy, with the A41 motorway close by. Paris is 3 hours 40 minutes by TGV. Lyon is 140 km away, about 1 hour 15 minutes from Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport, and Geneva is 40 km away, about 35 minutes from its airport.
