41% of French ski resorts meet this criterion.

Most people use their own car to get to ski resorts. However this is not always the best solution. If you live in a large city you certainly have the opportunity to buy a ski-pass and transport package especially designed for short stays and excursions to the mountains. This kind of package option is far more environmentally-friendly than using your own car :

• It helps to reduce congestion of access roads and overcrowding of car parks
• It helps to reduce your carbon footprint
• You save yourself hours of stressful and tiring car driving

In mountain resorts transport accounts for 75% of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

Specificities of transport in the mountains

Promoting public transport helps to reduce road traffic and petrol consumption and contributes to lower GHG emissions. Financial incentives like transport + ski-pass packages are one way of encouraging people to use bus and coach services. This package option should include a return ticket between a ski resort and the city you live in as well as a day ski-pass. Of course the price of  the package should be inferior to the sum of the ski-pass and the transport cost.

Criteria for award of logo

Criteria : Special rate on ski-pass and access package. (the AND criteria are necessary, the OR criteria are optional but it is necessary to meet at least one of those criteria)

• AND: A package option that includes easy access to the resort thanks to an SNCF railway station nearby as well as accommodation and ski-pass. This special offer must be good value and bought by a great number of people.

This issue involves :

• The tourist information office