Chemins, séminaires nature- Tours

Located in the Loire Valley between Blois and Saumur, this place specializes in organizing tailor-made electric bike tours and itinerant business seminars along the Loire à Vélo cycling route. The setting is characterized by UNESCO World Heritage listed landscapes, including castles, vineyards, and picturesque villages. The company offers immersive and low-carbon trips designed for teams, focusing on authentic encounters with locals, nature, and sustainable mobility. These itinerant seminars provide a relaxed, nature-focused atmosphere centered around slow travel and the French art of living. The service includes gourmet breaks at riverside guinguettes and tastings of regional products such as local wines, cheeses, rillettes, Loire fish, goat cheese, and Tarte Tatin. Prices vary based on the duration of the visit, with options ranging from two days and one night to eight days and seven nights. The company was founded in 2021 by Alexandre Le Beuan and Étienne Giroud, leveraging their experience in travel and sustainable tourism to provide unique team building and incentive experiences.

Chemins designs and orchestrates itinerant business seminars, conceived as true times of collective breathing, cohesion, and perspective-taking for teams.

Rather than a single location, Chemins is a custom experience creation activity, relying on a demanding selection of authentic venues, ranging from rustic to chic, always off the beaten path: characterful guesthouses, committed accommodations, inspiring third places, properties in nature, or discreet locations rooted in their territory.

Chemins seminars occur in gentle itinerancy, primarily using electric-assist bicycles, which serve as a tool for the collective: it creates a common rhythm, encourages informal exchanges, fosters cohesion, and offers an accessible experience for various profiles. Biking is never an end in itself, but a simple and effective means to break out of the usual framework and allow teams to breathe.

Each project is co-constructed with the company, incorporating:

1. its objectives (cohesion, alignment, engagement, inspiration),
2. its organizational constraints,
3. and the desired level of intensity (physical, intellectual, emotional).

The experiences alternate between gentle travel times, structuring collective moments, encounters with inspiring local actors (entrepreneurs, artisans, transition initiatives), restorative free time, and, if desired, collective intelligence or strategic reflection workshops led by experienced facilitators (e.g., Convergences workshop, Color Disc, 2tonnes, Lego Serious Play®).

Chemins primarily addresses SMEs, ETIs, and large groups, particularly in industrial and service sectors, tech, innovation, consulting, or distributed/remote organizations, seeking:

1. a differentiating seminar,
2. that strengthens team cohesion,
3. without logistical complexity for the organizing teams.

All seminars are designed to be turnkey, accessible by train, with a strong emphasis on the quality of venues and facilitators, participant experience, and local anchorage.

Chemins thus offers a credible and desirable alternative to traditional seminars, combining organizational rigor, meaning, and memorable collective experiences.