Mairie de Villard-de-Lans

What Mairie de Villard-de-Lans does

Mairie de Villard-de-Lans is the municipal government (commune) of Villard-de-Lans, a four-season mountain resort in the Isère department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. It serves approximately 4,039 registered voters (used as a proxy for resident/household population) plus a substantial seasonal tourist population drawn to the Vercors Massif. The commune operates a 43-employee administration led by Mayor Arnaud Mathieu and an elected municipal council, headquartered at 62 Place Pierre Chabert.

The commune delivers the full lifecycle of French municipal services — civil status (birth, marriage, death, PACS), elections, urban planning, cemetery concessions, hall rentals, social assistance via the CCAS (Centre Communal d'Action Sociale), and a municipal mutual health insurance plan — alongside operating an unusually broad portfolio of public sports and cultural infrastructure: the alpine ski domain at Côte 2000, the 100+ km Nordic site at Bois Barbu, an aquatic center, ice rink, luge park, the Le Rex cinema, the Bibliothèque Georges Perec, and the Maison du Patrimoine. Its technology layer is a Django-based website (with Bootstrap, jQuery, Leaflet.js/OpenStreetMap, Handlebars.js) integrated with France Connect for identity, service-public.fr for procedures, and the ILLIWAP mobile application for citizen alerts and news.

Mairie de Villard-de-Lans is a non-profit public administrative entity, not a commercial company. Its revenue is not publicly disclosed in the input; available pricing signals (e.g., €120/year school transport pass, €30/6-month bike box subscription, unit-priced hall rentals, 15- or 30-year cemetery concessions) are immaterial relative to the municipal budget, which is funded primarily through local taxation (housing tax, tourist tax), state and departmental transfers, intercommunal contributions via the Communauté de communes du massif du Vercors (CCMV), and operating receipts from ski and leisure facilities. Strategic activity in 2022–2024 has centered on infrastructure reinvestment (Chalimont refuge, ice rink, cinema, bus station, voirie, school) and on social/mobility services for an aging and rural-resident base.

Name

Mairie de Villard-de-Lans

Legal name

Mairie de Villard-de-Lans

Website

https://villard-de-lans.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Mairie de Villard-de-Lans is the French municipal government of Villard-de-Lans, an Isère mountain resort in the Vercors Massif, serving roughly 4,000 residents and seasonal tourists with administrative services, social welfare (CCAS), and ski, sports, and cultural facilities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Government Services

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251), Administration of Housing Programs (925110)

akta.pro primary industry

Mayor/City Manager & General Administration (BPAIACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Government & Municipal Event Venues (THAHAAAE), Housing & Neighborhood Services (Local Housing Programs) (BPAIACAJ)

Keywords

• Municipal government services
• Civil registry administration
• Public facility rentals
• Urban planning permits
• Community social services

Headquarters

HQ city

Villard-de-Lans

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Mairie de Villard-de-Lans is the municipal government of the commune of Villard-de-Lans in Isère, France. It delivers statutory local administrative services such as civil registry, urban planning, and identity documents, and manages community sports and cultural facilities (gymnasiums, halls) available for rental. The mairie also administers local social services and oversees municipal policy within the regulatory framework of French local government.

Product overview

Mairie de Villard-de-Lans operates as a French municipal government offering a comprehensive portfolio of administrative services and public facilities. The commune provides core administrative services including civil status (birth/death/marriage declarations), electoral services, cemetery management, and hall rentals. Public facilities include cultural venues (Le Rex cinema, La Coupole event hall, La Verrière, Bibliothèque Georges Perec, Maison du Patrimoine), sports facilities (Centre aquatique, Patinoire, Luge Park, Espace forme, Nordic ski site at Bois Barbu, Alpine domain at Côte 2000), and social services (CCAS, Bus France Services, municipal health insurance). The municipality also provides digital services including the ILLIWAP mobile application for municipal notifications, a Family Portal, and participates in regional transportation networks. The overall offering represents a multi-facility, multi-service municipal operation serving both permanent residents and seasonal visitors to this mountain resort destination.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Administrative and civil registry services (état civil) Statutory processing of birth, marriage, death records, identity documents, and other civil-status formalities for residents and citizens of the commune.
• Urban planning and building permits Review and issuance of building permits, planning authorizations, and related land-use documents for property owners and developers within the commune.
• Rental of municipal sports and cultural facilities (gymnasiums, halls) Booking and rental of municipal gymnasiums and multi-purpose halls for local associations, sports clubs, and event organizers.
• Local social services Municipal social assistance and support services for residents in need, including referral and coordination with departmental social services.

Quantifiable outcome

• The Bois Barbu nordic site and Colline des Bains facility recorded approximately 2,500 cross-country skiers and over 1,800 sledders on a single weekend (January 2024), demonstrating strong recreational demand.
• +3 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• Communauté de communes du massif du Vercors (CCMV)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe CCMV is the intercommunal structure to which Villard-de-Lans belongs. The two entities collaborate on water and sanitation (transferred to CCMV), public transport (Cars Région, T64 line extension to Corrençon), economic development, tourism promotion, and environmental management. The CCMV also manages the Transaltitude shuttle service connecting Valence TGV to the Vercors ski resorts.
• École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerA public-public partnership between the commune and ENSAG for the renovation of the Chalimont refuge. Approximately 20 ENSAG students participated in the project as part of the amaRéno research programme funded by the ANR, the LabEx 'Architecture, Environnement et Cultures Constructives', and the Université Grenoble Alpes IDEX 'Émergents' programme. The project used natural, low-carbon materials (local timber, hempcrete, local stone) and served as an exceptional pedagogical tool.
• AtticorA CooperativeminorOthersAtticorA provided patronage/mécénat for the renovation of the Chalimont refuge project.
• Vercors RamonageminorOthersVercors Ramonage provided patronage/mécénat for the renovation of the Chalimont refuge project.
• ClariantminorOthersClariant provided patronage/mécénat for the renovation of the Chalimont refuge project.
• Service-public.frminorOthersThe commune directs citizens to the national service-public.fr portal for detailed information and online procedures for civil status matters (birth declarations, marriage, death, PACS, identity documents), acting as an official reference partner for administrative procedures.
• Cavalaire-sur-MerminorOthersThe communes of Cavalaire-sur-Mer (Var) and Villard-de-Lans maintain a longstanding partnership/twinning relationship, exchanging Christmas trees (from Villard-de-Lans) and mimosa flowers (from Cavalaire-sur-Mer) annually for nearly 30 years, symbolizing inter-regional solidarity between tourist mountain and coastal communes.
• Transaltitude (Cars Région)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTransaltitude / Cars Région operates the interurban transport network connecting Valence TGV high-speed railway station to ski resorts in the Vercors Massif, including Villard-de-Lans. From Valence TGV, travelers can reach Villard-de-Lans in under 1.5 hours, with free seasonal shuttles then connecting to ski areas.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves16 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• ILLIWAP: Vendor of the municipal mobile alert application used by Villard-de-Lans; comparable as the enabling technology platform for citizen engagement in small French communes.

Direct peers

• Mairie d'Engins: Small Vercors commune within the same CCMV intercommunal structure, sharing transport and administrative cooperation arrangements with Villard-de-Lans.
• Mairie des Deux Alpes: Isère alpine ski commune operating a major resort domain with similar municipal service obligations (transport, urban planning, seasonal population management) and winter-tourism revenue base.
• Mairie d'Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors: Sister commune within the Communauté de communes du massif du Vercors offering the same mix of mountain administration, nordic/alpine ski, and four-season tourism services to a comparable Isère resident base.
• Mairie de Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte: Vercors member commune offering directly comparable municipal services to a small Isère mountain population, with shared intercommunal cooperation.
• Mairie de Chamrousse: Isère mountain ski resort commune with a similar municipal operating model — alpine ski domain, four-season positioning, comparable resident base, and dependence on tourism tax.
• Mairie de Corrençon-en-Vercors: Small Vercors commune sharing the T64 transport extension and CCMV coordination, with comparable ski and rural municipal service profile.
• Mairie de Lans-en-Vercors: Neighboring Vercors commune within the same CCMV intercommunal structure, providing parallel municipal services, ski areas, and rural mountain governance.

Broad incumbents

• Mairie de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc: Larger and more internationally known French alpine commune with a much bigger tourism budget and infrastructure scale, but the same four-season municipal operating model and ski-dependent revenue base.
• Mairie de Megève: Premium four-season mountain resort commune with a comparable service portfolio (ski, cultural venues, senior population, event infrastructure) but materially larger budget and tax base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/villarddelans
• Facebookfacebook.com/villarddelans
• Instagraminstagram.com/villarddelans
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mairie-de-villard-de-lans

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