Respect Festival Tour

 

24th and 25th february 2008

 

As part of its environmental concern, Val Thorens hosts a stage of the Respect Festival Tour organised by the Mountain Riders Association. Two days of making people more aware of sustainable resources, eco-citizenship and responsible tourism.

 

The Respect Festival Tour's aim is to make holiday makers and mountain tourist professionals more aware of the issues using 4 methods :

- The Village : educational entertainment given by the participating associations, professionals and companies (access from 14h to 22h) ... with a bio bar !

- Conferences, debates and open air film shows with specialists

- Introduction, entertainment and competitions with snow sports (Bank Slalom)

- A concert to give the event a festive note, with bio beer, of course !

(glissemagTV online web TV live from the Lutins Bleus concert, on this page Sunday at 7 pm)

 

The Respect Festival Tour takes into account all the environmental parameters linked to the organisation of such and event, so as to reduce its impact on the environment : transport (car sharing), waste (rubbish seperations, waste compactors, pocket ash trays), documents use recycled paper with vegetable ink ...

 

Download the program

 

Organisation and contact :

Mountain Riders : created in 2001 by mountain lovers, the association has made its name by organising rubbish collecting in the mountains with the aim of making the pubic aware of the environmental crisis. Today the association is the partner of more than 80 ski resorts (Tourist Offices, Town Halls, ski lift companies, accommodation providers, ski schools ....)

It organises huge publicity campaigns to make the tourist professionals and holiday makers more aware of the danger. It has undertaken groundwork with important partners (the Rhône Alp Region, ADEME, the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, Ski France ...)

 

Mountain lovers and nature lovers in general, why not become a member of our association ?

http://www.mountain-riders.org/

 

Contact :

François Xavier SIMIAN

06 13 80 39 04

 

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