City of Bern: Here it meets well

Bern's outstanding meetings infrastructure extends compactly around the virtually car-free, Unesco-protected old town. In addition to 50 hotels with over 2,500 hotel rooms and more than 300 restaurants, bars and cafés, the Swiss capital offers space for meetings and events with up to 5,000 people. With the Bern Expo, it has the largest open-air exhibition grounds in Switzerland, and with the Kursaal Bern, one of the most beautiful congress and event centers in Switzerland with a spectacular view over the old town to a majestic Alpine panorama.The necessary peace and distance for successful retreats and seminars as well as countless possibilities for team events can also be found in the nearby Emmental and in the Gantrisch Nature Park. Here, meeting and seminar guests experience the "bhäbige", cozy Bernese way up close.

Full service in the Kursaal

The legendary Kursaal Bern is a "full-service" congress center with 30 event, seminar and meeting rooms and the 4-star superior Hotel Allegro with 171 rooms. A suitable setting for get-togethers of up to 1500 people. People meet, hone innovative business ideas and make contacts - for example during a dinner in the hotel's own fine-dining restaurant Meridiano, which has been awarded 16 Gault Millau points and a Michelin star. During the summer months, the Rooftop Bar & Grill also beckons - sunset with a dream view of the old town included. Meanwhile, risk-takers can try their luck at the hotel's Grand Casino.

Team experiences in the city and in the countryside

Bern and its region combine their historical heritage with modernity like no other - from the time-honored knight's cellar to the dreamlike fairy-tale castle with its well-tended park. Let go, recharge your batteries and find inner peace at Hünigen Castle in Konolfingen. Surrounded by an extensive park with old trees and rose terraces, the von Scharnachtal pavilion and the ten magnificent halls and seminar rooms of the castle offer a dignified setting for successful journeys into the past to develop ideas for the future. "Bern Meetings & Events" offers a wide variety of supporting programs in the city and region of Bern. For example, how about tickets to a game of the fifteen-time Swiss ice hockey champions SC Bern or the reigning Swiss soccer champions Young Boys Bern? Would you rather be active yourself? The choice is wide and ranges from scavenger hunts and scooter tours through Bern's alleyways to perfume and creative workshops, inflatable boat trips on the Aare River and mountain climbing at the Stade de Suisse. And not far from Bern, the secrets of Emmental cheese and Kambly Bretzeli are waiting to be uncovered.

Soon Christmas

And this look ahead is entirely appropriate: Many SMEs use the pre-Christmas period to say thank you to their employees, customers or suppliers and to end the year together. How about the Stärne-Märit on the Kleine Schanze? This new Christmas market joins the two existing ones from 2018. The crowning glory of the visit is a wintry aperitif or a convivial company Christmas dinner for up to 220 people in the festively decorated fondue chalet in the middle of the Stärne-Märit.