Lascaux Dordogne

What Lascaux Dordogne does

Lascaux Dordogne (legal name: Office de Tourisme Lascaux Dordogne) is the official public tourism office for the Lascaux-Dordogne and Vallée Vézère destination in the Périgord Noir region of Dordogne, France. Headquartered at Place Bertran de Born in Montignac-Lascaux, it operates as a destination marketing organization under the Communauté des communes Vallée de l'Homme, covering 26 communes across the Vézère Valley. Its core product is a multilingual digital platform (French, English, Italian, Spanish) offering an interactive map, an events agenda, a personal travel planner (carnet de voyage), downloadable brochures, an email newsletter, and online ticket booking for anchor attractions including Lascaux IV. The territory it promotes contains over 200 Paleolithic sites, 25 decorated caves, and 15 UNESCO World Heritage sites documenting 400,000 years of human occupation.

The organization is structured as a government-affiliated public entity (firm_type: government_state_entity) and does not generate commercial revenue; it is funded by local government and community contributions and provides core visitor information free of charge, while paid attractions and accommodation are operated by third parties. Its go-to-market motion is event-driven, relying on the destination's calendar of cultural and natural heritage events, festivals, and the broader Intense Périgord Noir collective brand to drive visitor interest. It serves three primary customer segments: domestic and international tourist visitors seeking cultural and outdoor experiences, families with children, and prehistory/cultural heritage enthusiasts. Distribution is delivered through physical bureaux d'information in the territory plus self-serve digital platforms.

The destination is anchored by an unusually strong set of institutional and intangible assets. The territory holds UNESCO Biosphere Reserve status (2012), UNESCO World Heritage inscription for 15 Paleolithic sites, and the Grand Site de France label (2020) granted by the French Ministry of Culture. The 2016 opening of the Centre International de l'Art Pariétal Lascaux IV provided a modern reproduction-based anchor attraction. The marketing stack includes a multilingual website, organic social on Facebook and Instagram, an email newsletter, and partnerships with Ecotourisme Vallée Vézère and the national Qualité Tourisme certification. There is no disclosed headcount, no funding activity, no M&A history, and no commercial revenue line — the entity operates as a stable, publicly funded destination marketing organization rather than a venture-backed or commercially monetized business.

Name

Lascaux Dordogne

Legal name

Office de Tourisme Lascaux Dordogne

Website

https://lascaux-dordogne.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lascaux Dordogne is a publicly funded French tourism office in Montignac-Lascaux that promotes the Périgord Noir and Vézère Valley destination through a multilingual website, interactive maps, events calendar, and visitor information services. It serves domestic and international tourists, families, and cultural heritage enthusiasts free of charge.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Montignac

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Tourism Promotion Services: Public tourism office funded by local government and community contributions. Does not generate commercial revenue but promotes local tourism economy including accommodation, restaurants, activities, and attractions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Lascaux Dordogne is a public tourism office that promotes the Lascaux-Dordogne and Vallée Vézère destination in Périgord Noir, France. It provides visitor information, trip-planning resources, an interactive map, an events agenda, a travel planner tool, downloadable brochures, an email newsletter, and online ticket booking for attractions such as Lascaux IV. The office coordinates tourism marketing for 26 communes and promotes accommodations, restaurants, activities, and prehistoric heritage sites operated by third-party providers.

Product overview

Lascaux Dordogne is a destination marketing and visitor information platform operated by the official tourism office for the Lascaux-Dordogne and Vallée Vézère region in Périgord Noir, Dordogne, France. The platform operates as a comprehensive tourism information ecosystem offering a main website portal, an interactive map tool for navigating attractions and accommodations, an events calendar for regional activities, a travel planner for itinerary creation, downloadable brochures and guides, newsletter subscriptions, and online ticket booking for major attractions including Lascaux IV. The destination promotes UNESCO World Heritage prehistoric sites, medieval castles, troglodytic villages, outdoor activities, and gastronomic experiences across 26 communes in the Vallée de l'Homme community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lascaux Dordogne Official Tourism Website
• Interactive Map
• Events Agenda
• Travel Planner / Favorites (Carnet de Voyage)
• Brochures and Guides
• Newsletter Subscription
• Online Ticket Booking

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Intense Périgord NoircoreGTM or Marketing PartnerCollective tourism brand representing the Périgord Noir destination, coordinating cross-territorial marketing and promotion efforts for the wider region.
• Ecotourisme Vallée VézèrecoreGTM or Marketing PartnerEcotourism initiative promoting responsible and sustainable tourism practices in the Vézère Valley.
• Qualité TourismeminorGTM or Marketing PartnerFrench national tourism quality certification program administered by the government.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Office de Tourisme de Sarlat-Périgord Noir: Neighboring intercommunal French DMO covering Sarlat in Périgord Noir with similar scope, multilingual website, institutional labels, and tourism office operating model; the most direct structural comparable to Lascaux Dordogne.

Regional players

• Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Tourisme: French regional DMO promoting heritage, gastronomy, and outdoor tourism in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté with a comparable destination portal model and multilingual international outreach.
• Comité Régional du Tourisme de Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Regional DMO for Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the parent administrative region containing the Vézère Valley; similar destination marketing mandate but operates at a much larger regional scale.
• Dordogne Tourisme (Comité Départemental du Tourisme de la Dordogne): Departmental-level DMO for Dordogne, the parent department containing the Vézère Valley; comparable in product (web portal, booking) but operates at a broader departmental scale and budget.
• Visit Alsace: French regional DMO covering Alsace with comparable multilingual web platform and cultural/heritage tourism focus; operates with public funding and partnerships similar to the Vézère Valley DMO.
• Comité Régional du Tourisme Côte d'Azur France: Established French Riviera regional DMO operating an information portal with similar functions (interactive maps, events, accommodation booking), though at substantially larger scale and budget than Lascaux Dordogne.
• Provence Tourisme: Major French regional DMO promoting cultural, heritage, and outdoor tourism in Provence; comparable in multilingual offerings, UNESCO assets, and integrated tourism information platform.

Broad incumbents

• VisitBritain: UK national tourism agency promoting heritage tourism including prehistoric assets such as Stonehenge; operates at much broader national scope but with comparable destination marketing and multilingual digital infrastructure.
• Turespaña (Spain.info): Spain's national tourism promotion entity featuring UNESCO prehistoric heritage sites such as Altamira; a national-level incumbent whose cultural heritage promotion and digital platform size dwarfs the regional DMO model.

Others

• Intense Périgord Noir: Collective tourism brand of which Lascaux Dordogne is a member; serves as a coordination and umbrella marketing entity for the broader Périgord Noir destination rather than a directly comparable DMO.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/lascaux.vallee.vezere
• Instagraminstagram.com/lascaux.vallee.vezere
• Xx.com/lascauxdordogne
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/office-de-tourisme-lascaux-dordogne-vallee-vezere

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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