Venue & travel

Getting to Lyon

By Air

Located in the heart of Europe with more than 100 non-stop flight routes, Lyon Airport boasts one of the most comprehensive international route networks with 44 airline companies. It offers 102 international destinations and is connected to 71 European cities. For more booking information click here.

Lyon St Exupéry airport is located only 25 minutes from Lyon city center and is connected by an Express tramway RhoneExpress - Departure every 15 minutes from 4.25am to midnight *

(*every 30 min from 4.25 am to 6 am and from 9 to midnight) 7 days/week all year. 29x less CO2 than by car 0.156 kg of CO2 for a 22km trip with Rhônexpress versus 4.532 kg for the same distance by car.

To book with RhoneExpress click here.

By Train

Lyon is very well connected to Europe by train and counts 3 high-speed train stations in the city:

• Part Dieu train station (city center) is a major nerve center, including the leading interchange rail station in Europe.
  The Part-Dieu train station is being completely renovated to facilitate travels and intramodality, improve quality of life... and make everyday life more pleasant.
• Perrache train station (city center).
• St Exupéry train station (airport) connected to Lyon Airport by a moving sidewalk.

Direct Trains:

• Paris: 1h58 (32 round trips per day)
• Brussels: 3h40 (6 round trips per day)
• Barcelona: 4h57 (1 round trip per day operated by Renfe)
• Geneva: 1h57 (10 round trips per day)
• Frankfurt: 5h50 (1 round trip per day)
• Torino: 3h45 (2 round trips per day operated by Trenitalia)
• Milano: 4h35 (2 round trips per day operated by Trenitalia)

 

Local Public Transporation: TCL

TCL is the second largest public transport system in France with:

• 4 metro lines: A B C D
• 7 tramway lines: T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6 and T7 lines
• 2 funicular lines
• 100 bus lines, including electric trolleybuses

TCL E-Ticket

Buy and validate your ticket with your android smartphone

TCL E-Ticket offers the opportunity to buy your ticket on your mobile application and to validate as if it were a Técély card.Only the android mobile equipped with NFC are compatibles with TCL E-Ticket application.

Ticket

A ticket is valid for one trip, on the entire TCL network, within one hour of its first validation. It is possible to end a journey after one hour if the last validation (and therefore connection) occurs before the one-hour limit.

The contactless ticket can be purchased and recharged in vending machines, at TCL Service offices.

For the first purchase, the contactless Ticket costs €0.20 and is rechargeable 10 times.

You can load any occasional kind of tickets (single, 2h, 24h, 48h, etc). Book here.

 

Visa information

You may access this website to check if your country of departure requires you to apply for a Visa to enter France.

For attendees who need to apply for a Visa, please fill up this form and our team will reply within 5 working days.

 

Accommodations

The IB has arranged special room rates for those attending the IB Global Conference.

Please book via the booking link below for the special IB rate. The rates quoted are exclusive of local applicable taxes, are subject to room availability at the time of booking and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Book here

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