Intro
Event and meeting venues can be arranged to be just as versatile as the subjects addressed by their programmes. Whether you are looking for a business hotel off the beaten track or the congress centre right in the heart of the city, the Canton of Bern has something for everyone.
Description
The Bern region scores highly thanks to its excellent public transport links and central location on the language border, while its modest size also means that congresses in the city and supporting programmes in the countryside can be combined to great effect. Locations within destinations are also within easy walking distance: whether in Bern, Interlaken, Biel/Bienne or mountain destinations such as Grindelwald, the railway station, congress centre and hotels are generally all within walking distance.
Added value
Even if they only spend one night in tourist accommodation in the city of Bern, guests receive a complimentary Bern Ticket, giving them free travel on trams, buses and trains within the city centreGuest cards offering attractive discounts
Thanks to the local guest card, visitors to the Interlaken and Jungfrau region, Adelboden-Lenk-Kandersteg and to Gstaad can enjoy a host of benefits and discounts such as free travel on public transport or a discounted mountain railway/cable car ride to one of the region’s impressive mountain peaks.Sustainability
Awards
- The cities of Bern and Biel/Bienne: «European Energy Award GOLD»
- Interlaken: «Energy City»
- The Tissot Arena in Biel/Bienne, which has the world’s largest in-stadium solar power plant, and the Stade de Suisse in Bern generate 700,000 kWh of electricity each year – enough for around 200 households. Hundreds of thousands of industrious bee colonies are going about their business at the Kursaal Bern, the Hotel Schweizerhof Bern & THE SPA and at the Alpina Gstaad hotel