The Cannes Yachting Festival has been held every September since 1977 in the sparkling Bay of Cannes, in a luxurious and elegant universe.

The Cannes Yachting Festival is 1st boat show in the sailing season and Europe’s biggest in-water event. It brings together those involved in leisure boating who present their numerous new products for the first time.

2024 will see the launch of a new area entirely dedicated to new motorboats with 140 boats on water from 8m and 30 on land up to 8m. It is a major first for the Cannes Yachting Festival to present boats of this size in water! 

Because the world is in the midst of an ecological transition, the Cannes Yachting Festival has created an "Innovation Route" to highlight the eco-efficient solutions exhibitors are offering. 

The Cannes Yachting Festival aims to gradually reduce the environmental impact of its activity and is implementing several actions with the support of its partners, suppliers and exhibitors.

Here are some of the eco friendly approach taken this year by the show:

Festival caterers’ undertaking

• Offer at least one vegetarian choice at all catering points
• Give preference to seasonal, local and/or organic products as far as possible
• Limit food waste
• Reduce waste
• Limit the use of single-use plastic utensils.

Reducing printed documents

• Making the Festival’s tickets paperless
• Eliminating the visitors’ map which will be included in the Festival catalogue

the catalogue/map which will be printed on Ecofolio-certified paper.  

Service providers’ undertaking

• Optimise transports
• Keep excess goods wrapping to a minimum
• Develop products that are more sustainable and recyclable
• Vieux port & Port Canto are certified “Clean harbours” and engadged "actifs en biodiversité"  

  The use of recycled and/or recyclable materials

  • Press villages’ furniture in recycled and recyclable cardboard
  • Recyclable stand and aisle carpet
  • Majority of Festival signage recyclable 

    Waste management

    • Waste sorting emphasised during set-up, the Festival (opening to the public) and take-down with implementation of different streams according to areas and times.
    • Recycling aisle carpets : removing the carpet is a key stage, carried out by a reinforced team. For a successful recycling, you must be patient and wait for the aisle carpets to be removed before taking down your stand. In this way, we can to collect them right at the beginning of take-down, cleaned of any waste (including small pieces).
    • Waste water treatment à with the aim of 0 release into the ports.
    • Emptying your boat tanks: two companies are referenced (Ecotank and Blue Marine) to meet all the needs and to stop several boats exhibited carrying out unauthorised (and shameful) dumping in the port.
    • Reinforced checks: the port authorities will carry out increased checks of boat tanks and will check the waste and residue declarations for each boat coming into the Festival.