Business destinations

This 7 December marks the farewell of Leopold-Sedar-Senghor airport. For several decades, the airport named after the former president of Senegal was the traditional point of entry to Senegal, and indeed to Africa. From now on, travellers will land at the new Blaise-Diagne airport, 50 km from the Senegalese capital.

Warm and teeming, Dakar has begun a delicate transformation to become the economic hub of West Africa. This original metropolis has many assets, and now boasts a new top-class international airport. Just as ambitious as its ambitions.

Business or boutique hotels, trendy addresses and restaurants serving local and international cuisine: the essentials for preparing a trip to Dakar.

Madrid has long worked in the shadows, humbly assuming its status as the country's administrative and financial capital, while leaving other destinations...

Report and photos by Florian Guillemin. If you have an hour... You might as well know that Madrid's business district is not renowned for its cultural offerings. It's...

Business hotels or boutique hotels, seafood restaurants or Peruvian restaurants: here are a few tips on how to make the most of a business trip to Madrid.

David Noack, Director of the Madrid Convention Bureau, explains how Madrid has risen to the forefront as a leading destination for business tourism.

Moscow is changing at breakneck speed, under the influence of an iron-fisted mayor and a youth increasingly focused on new technologies. And the rest of the world too.

Benoît Lardy, President of Tsar Voyages, Alexander Khanin, Director of VisionLabs, and Hervé Mercier, of Alhemer Optik, talk about their experiences and give their advice on setting up in Moscow.

Business and boutique hotels, trendy addresses and gourmet restaurants, flight connections: the essentials for preparing a trip to Moscow.

A former artists' residence in Abramtsevo, the golden bulbs of the Trinity of Saint Sergius Monastery: Moscow's surroundings are ideal for a bleisurely getaway.

Natalya Polenova is the director of the Vasily Polenov Museum, dedicated to her great-grandfather, a realist painter from the late 19th century. She grew up between Moscow and the family estate, around a hundred kilometres from the capital. After studying at the Ecole du Louvre, she returned to Russia to take up the reins of the museum and promote this major artist, who is still little-known abroad.

While Moscow has seen the recent opening of several new establishments, it is above all the renovations that have livened up the Moscow hotel scene, making the Russian capital the place for all possibilities, especially at the top end of the market.

Lavish rooms, old bars, reinvented cafés, top restaurants... Moscow offers more than one option for extraordinary dates.

In the vein of Canary Wharf in London or La Défense in Paris, the Moscow business district, on the outskirts of the city, is finally taking off.

The slogans are regularly repeated along the expressways of Addis Ababa, the sprawling capital of four million inhabitants. "We are vigorously pursuing our global role...

Top-of-the-range hotels, jazz clubs: the up-and-coming Bole district is Addis Ababa's favourite destination for business travellers. Here is a list of the best addresses.

From street food spots to gourmet restaurants, from XXL hotels to more intimate establishments: great addresses and tips for a business trip to SOMA, San Francisco.

Ève Chaurand, President of the French American Chamber of Commerce San Francisco (FACCSF), takes a look at the destination and the dynamics of SoMa.

Report and photos by Florian Guillemin. Half a century after the Summer of Love, a whiff of freedom is still wafting through...