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Cultural infrastructure on the vikings theme
- With the prospect of their fusion in 2016, the Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie regions wanted to examine the opportunity of creating a major cultural and tourism facility focusing on a popular and strongly identifiable theme in Normandy: the story of the Vikings.
- In designing this facility, our teams had to bear in mind the challenges posed by scientific accuracy, museographical relevance and the territory’s strong regional roots.
Analysis of the purchasing department and cycle, the Negresco hotel Nice
The Negresco hotel had identified errors in the purchasing department, with repercussions on service quality, particularly in the restaurant. Within this context, the hotel’s management wanted to obtain a very specific analysis of the department’s organisation, in order to identify the origin of the dysfunction and to rectify it once and for all. At the end of the first audit phase, the hotel mandated IE TCH to assist in implementing the cycle’s operating procedures.
Tourism strategy of the Loire-Atlantique department
Tourism occupies a strategic position in the local economy (generating almost 26 million overnights) and in the urban organisation of the department’s territories. The Loire-Atlantique notably benefits from the appeal of the Atlantic coastline and the city of Nantes.
Aware of the strategic importance of tourism, the Loire-Atlantique department decided to draw up a new tourism development strategy, focusing notably on improving its renown and marketing efforts, on clarifying supply and on optimising its governance.
Promotion of the commune of perigueux’s gallo-roman heritage
- The town of Perigueux has been actively conserving and promoting its ancient medieval heritage for a number of years.
- The town is seeking to move to the next stage in its urban, cultural, patrimonial and tourism development by building on the archaeological excavations and scientific research activities around the site of the Vesunna museum.
Study on rural tourist lodging in Burgundy
The Conseil Régional de Bourgogne, assisted by Atout France, wished to reflect on how local politicians could be given a tool to help them decide how to grant financial assistance to rural tourist lodging facilities. The study’s objectives were to pinpoint the particularities of properties located in rural areas (defined as the whole of the Burgundy region, excluding large cities) and the specific challenges faced by operators.
Tourism lodging development strategy for Grand Lyon
Study on visitors to Clermont-Ferrand’s museums
The town of Clermont-Ferrand is currently working on a significant cultural development strategy, with notably a view to becoming the European Capital of Culture. The organisation of the Etats Généraux de la Culture, the pioneering signature of a cultural pact with the state, etc. are signs both of a structured process to define a new cultural policy and the town’s strong commitment to developing cultural activities.
Although they attract a fairly significant amount of interest, the town’s three “Musées de France” could certainly increase visitor numbers. Given this, the assignment aimed to:
- Characterise visitors in order to understand their needs and expectations.
- Define strategic recommendations to meet the needs of visitors and increase their numbers
Annual visitors Survey 2005-2016 – Centre of National Monuments
The Centre of National Monuments (CMN) manages around a hundred historical monuments in France. Since 2005, the economic development department has sought to carry out an annual survey of visitors at five to seven national monuments in order to:
- Identify types of visitors, their profile, their perception of proposed services and their expectations.
- Suggest permanent ways for each monument to improve their service offer (welcome, visit, etc.).
Evaluation of mediation and development actions undertaken by the Regional Service for Heritage and Inventory (SRPI)
- The Aquitaine region has been actively developing its heritage sites for several years. Inventory, restoration of protected heritage, mediation, creation of a regional inventory space and support and partnerships all provide testament to an overall, proactive policy conducted in the spirit of partnership.
- The mediation and development actions undertaken by the SRPI illustrate a certain dynamism, a capacity to innovate and the acknowledgement of a long-standing public policy within the region: virtual visits, mobile exhibitions, documentation, events, specific regional collections, the “EPIA” itself, with its exhibition space and library.
- The region wanted to evaluate the mediation and development actions undertaken by the SRPI in order to improve and anticipate their reinterpretation in the medium term within the framework of the new regional and organisational context.
Programming for a monument in Saint-Benoit sur Loire
Today, the lapidarium of the Abbaye de Fleury, a renowned monument dating from the end of the XI century to the beginning of the XII century, is conserved at the abbey and closed to the public.
Project management objectives:
- Study the opportunity and feasibility of a museum-type space around the collection by promoting the history of the abbey and the local area.
- Consider whether a second lapidarium should be integrated, with stones from the Germigny des Prés oratory, as well as a collection of archives relating to Max Jacob.