Viparis 2024

In 2024, Olympic events will be held at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, while journalists from all around the world will work at Parc des Expositions Paris Le Bourget. As a partner of Paris 2024, Viparis confirms its ability to host very large events, especially sporting ones. With its Arénas éphémères [temporary arenas], Viparis allows sporting events to be organised “outside the stadiums”.
On course for 2024
Viparis operates 10 major event venues in and around Paris and is committed and geared up to hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024. In fact, the Olympic handball and table tennis events will take place in Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. The handball players will have the 44,000 m² of pavilion 1 with the capacity to accommodate up to 12,000 spectators. In pavilion 4 (19,000 m²), 6,000 spectators will be able to watch the table tennis event. These venues will be made available from 11 July to 24 August 2024.

The International Radio and Television Centre (IBC) and Main Press Centre (MPC) will be created on a single site: the Parc des Expositions Paris Le Bourget. Combining modernity and architectural tradition, Le Bourget offers a very flexible area, with 80,000 m² of indoor space surrounded by 25 hectares outdoors. An extension of the site is planned and will be operational in the spring of 2023. The attractiveness of Paris Le Bourget will also be reinforced by the commissioning of Le Bourget-Aéroport station on the Grand Paris Express underground (line 17). The spaces will be occupied from 25 July 2023 until 29 September 2024.

Hosting exceptional events and hosting sport outside its reference venues
With the 2024 Olympics, Viparis confirms the capacity of its sites to adapt to the requirements of very large events. Remember that in December 2015, Paris Le Bourget hosted the COP 21, the United Nations Conference on climate change, which was a resounding success echoed the world over (90,000 visitors in 10 days, including 150 heads of State).

In terms of sport, Viparis notably hosted the draw for the UEFA Euro 2016 tournament at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, the press centre for this competition was set up at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, a “champions match” (basketball) took place on the stage of the amphitheatre at the Palais des Congrès, and a round of the world fencing championship was held at the Carrousel du Louvre. With our temporary arenas offer, we can host sports events in other sites than their reference venues. A dedicated team, Viparis Event Lab, has been created to support the organisers of these outstanding events which can accommodate up to 10,000 spectators. Thanks to our sites’ modularity, any type of sporting activity can be organised, and changing rooms (with showers) can be provided, along with a press centre and adapted sound and lighting systems.

“We are proud to have contributed to the success of the “Paris 2024″ candidature”, says Michel Dessolain, Managing Director of Viparis, “and we will make every effort to host the handball and table tennis players, their thousands of spectators, as well as journalists from all around the world at our Paris Expo Porte de Versailles and Paris Le Bourget venues. Our teams are accustomed to hosting the biggest international events and will work with the events’ organisers to help them put on real sports shows for their spectators.”

Viparis manages the ten main conference centres and exhibition/event venues in the Greater Paris region. Each year, Viparis welcomes an average of 10 million visitors (the general public, professionals and spectators) to a wide range of events at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, Paris Le Bourget, Paris Nord Villepinte, Espace Champerret, Palais des Congrès de Paris, Palais des Congrès de Versailles, Palais des Congrès d’Issy, Carrousel du Louvre, Espace Grande Arche and the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild.

In 2017, Viparis will open the Paris Convention Centre at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, which will be able to accommodate large-scale international events.
Each day, Viparis, Europe’s leading events management company, strives to provide excellence to its customers and visitors while fostering innovation in terms of hospitality and services.

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