The living environment in the mountains can prove to be even more appreciable in this period of the Covid-19 crisis.
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Saint François Longchamp Tourism
The health context of Covid-19, which has led to the generalization of teleworking, encourages several stations in the Alps to offer offers to residents of large cities.
They can thus benefit from advantageous rates to settle for a month (or even more) in the mountains, and thus better live a period of curfew.
According to Jean-Philippe Monfort, director of the tourist office of La Clusaz, "this type of offer will perhaps even encourage city dwellers to change their life and settle for good in the mountains".
"How about working with a view of the mountains?"
"Like Courchevel and La Clusaz, Saint François Longchamp (Savoie) has just launched a special teleworking offer with this formula, highlighting a living environment in the heart of the Alps and its" 50 GB high speed wifi included ".
For each of its resorts obviously penalized by the closure of ski lifts this winter, the ambition is to attract city dwellers for long-term stays after the school holidays.
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Marketing director at Courchevel Tourisme, Alexia Lainé made a statement during this Covid-19 health crisis: “I have worked a lot in Paris for a year and I found the atmosphere atrocious.
Here, we live the periods of confinement and curfew in a much more serene way.
We therefore submitted to owners and hoteliers the idea of offering a special teleworking stay.
As all the shops remain open in Courchevel, the goal of the game is for there to be life in the resort ”.
The surroundings of Courchevel (Savoie) are particularly suitable for snowshoeing.
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"An off-season market to develop in the mountains"
The upscale town of Savoy has therefore notably marketed several homes, all quickly full, in a residence in La Tania, over the period from March 13 to April 10, with an advantageous price of 1,560 euros (instead of 2,600 €) due to the context.
“For the next few years, there is undoubtedly a mid-season market to develop in the mountains,” says Antoine Chauvet, owner of two apartments in Saint François Longchamp and interested in this long rental offer with a rent reduced by half.
We offer total well-being in a town located less than 4 hours from Paris by TGV.
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This development of a rental market over the four seasons is rightly targeted by Sylvain Girard, director of Saint François Longchamp Tourisme, which has an occupancy rate of between 30 and 60% for these February holidays: “From mid- March, the idea is to tell people "come four weeks and pay in two", knowing that the owner can navigate with limited cleaning costs thanks to a long stay.
We can already feel a real enthusiasm for our innovative offer ”.
The small town of Saint François Longchamp is located on the northern slope of the Maurienne valley.
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"We are not an amusement park for skiing"
Five accommodation reservations have been made there for the next month.
Social media manager at Deezer and living in Paris for five years, Alice Gaudriault (28) quickly jumped on this opportunity to escape to the Alps.
Working with a breathtaking view of the mountains is still a luxury.
With my partner, we are going to rent a 50 m2 apartment for 790 euros per month, which represents a third of our two studio rents in Paris.
Rather than living in a huge city where almost no leisure is possible, we will plan for lunchtime walks and long snowshoe hikes on weekends.
This is perhaps a unique opportunity to take advantage of a really funny situation and turn it into something unusual.
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The municipality of La Clusaz (Haute-Savoie) is also doing something unusual by partnering with Airbnb to allow a family to settle for a month in a chalet in this village in the Aravis massif, for a symbolic 1 euro.
An operation that looks like an exceptional competition, but with a much more global impact objective.
“We noticed during the first confinement, then last summer with 20% of customers coming for the first time to the mountains during this period, that the French have an exacerbated need to reconnect with natural spaces, says Jean- Philippe Monfort, director of the tourist office.
We have an authentic village, connected to the whole world, which has fiber and which is open all year round.
We are not a ski amusement park.
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The municipality of La Clusaz (Haute-Savoie) has 2,000 free beds in the off season.
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"We now realize that we depend on tourism"
With 2,000 beds available out of season from person to person, and only 1,800 inhabitants a year, La Clusaz symbolizes the desire of many mountain municipalities to take advantage of the Covid-19 health crisis to "become a home for teleworking ".
"This type of offer will perhaps even encourage city dwellers to change their life and settle for good in the mountains", continues Jean-Philippe Monfort.
A sharp enthusiasm with the sometimes hostile attitude of some locals, in spots taken by storm in the sea and in the mountains, during the first confinement.
"I have never seen any animosity in Courchevel," assures the Savoyard Boris Glise, which has so far only been 20% full of its two luxury chalets rented for 6,000 euros per week in the off season. .
With this strange period, everyone now realizes that we depend on tourism, including a craftsman at the bottom of the valley.
So as much to have an activity level of 20% as a completely blank year.
"Alice Gaudriault, who had already fled Paris last spring to settle with friends in Saint-Alban-d'Hurtières (Savoie), is categorical:" I was very well received by the inhabitants of this region.
I believe that good humor calls for good humor ”.
Just as teleworking can therefore call for hiking in the snow.
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