Pierre & Vacances - Center Parcs Group

Update on Development of Center Parcs Domains

Regulatory News:

For more than 50 years, the Pierre & Vacances - Center Parcs Group (Paris:VAC) has strived to develop a tourism offer that respects the environment and biodiversity.

The Center Parcs domains are a good illustration of the Group’s commitment to responsible and sustainable tourism. Each development project is the object of a prior environmental study that goes beyond legal obligations, as well as concertation with local operators.

Since 2007, the Group has been working on a project to install a Center Parcs domain in the township of Roybon in the Isère region of France. The project has received constant support from all local authorities for its environmental qualities, its benefits in terms of jobs and revenues, and its ability to revitalise and rebalance the region. For more than 10 years, legal proceedings contesting the administrative authorisations have prevented the project from advancing. With the land clearing permission, vital for the project’s materialisation, now void, and access to the site blocked by so-call “zadist” militants (from the French Zone à Defendre meaning zone to defend) who have been illegally occupying the land since 2014, Center Parcs has decided to withdraw from this project.

Independently from Roybon, over this period, the development of Center Parcs in France has continued with the opening of the Domaine du Bois aux Daims (Vienne region) in 2015, the extension of the Domaine des Trois Forêts (Moselle) in 2017 and 2019, and the future opening of the Center Parcs Landes de Gascogne (Lot-et-Garonne).

Center Parcs confirms its development in France and Northern Europe under the framework of the Group Change Up strategic plan, with innovative concepts that are set to enhance the Center Parcs offer.

- In France, the Landes de Gascogne domain in the Lot-et-Garonne region is due to open in spring 2022 (87 hectares, 400 cottages and 12,500 sq.m of leisure facilities). It has received a very warm welcome and is supported from regional authorities as well as local inhabitants and environmental protection groups. The domain is currently being built and is designed to have a limited environmental footprint (wood heating covering 80% of energy needs for the central facilities, bioclimatic construction of accommodation avoiding the use of air conditioning and optimised water management thanks to an innovative marsh treatment system).