Business destinations

This energy permeates the whole city, flowing up the Paseo de la Reforma where the heart of business beats, and spreading to Polanco, Condesa and Roma, the capital's fashionable districts.

IDENTITY CARD Formalities: passport valid up to six months after the date of arrival. Currency: the shekel (ILS). 1 euro = 3.89 ILS (March 2017). Area code: +972. Time difference: +1h. GETTING THERE EL AL offers...

To travel to Tel Aviv on business without making a diversion via Jerusalem would almost be heresy. Strictly speaking. Because we...

Amir Haleiv, CEO of Israel's Ministry of Tourism, highlights the sector's enormous potential for expansion and its role as a driving force in the Israeli economy.

After working as a chef in a number of Michelin-starred restaurants, and then as the owner of a restaurant in Jerusalem, Michael Katz handed in his apron to travel the world giving lectures on Israeli gastronomic culture.

Leisure oasis, historic district or nerve centre of high-tech Tel Aviv? Sarona is all three. Set your sights on creativity.

Long dominated by the classic chain hotels on the seafront, Tel Aviv is getting a facelift with attractive boutique hotels, as well as larger, very select establishments, to renew its offer.

Clusters, incubators, accelerators... Tel Aviv is a city that's all about technology. Young and creative, it knows how to combine work and pleasure.

They're approaching, in or just past their thirties. They range in age from 27 to 41, but all share the same entrepreneurial spirit and the desire to ride the ultra-dynamic wave of business cool that's sweeping Tel Aviv.

HILTON You may be called Hilton, you may span the globe with over 4,700 hotels, but in the end the famous customer experience is based on nothing more than...

THE INNOCENTS Since it opened in summer 2015, this pretty address in the Tribunal district has got into the habit of selling out....

If you have an hour... Visits to the European institutions are by prior arrangement and, in the case of the Parliament, only during the weeks...

How would you describe Strasbourg to a business traveller? Mireille Dartus - Strasbourg is a compact city, so it's very easy to get around...

It's a fact that the building of Europe has seen its heyday. In these times of Brexit, however, a few bastions of the Union are holding firm. Better still...

Identity cards Formalities: valid passport. Area code: +66 (Thailand); 02 (Bangkok). Time difference: +5 hours in summer, +6 hours...

An interior architect, designer and artist, Rush Pleansuk has won numerous awards - Elle Décoration, Denmark Decoration Award in Thailand, G-Mark Japan International Good Design Award. His brand, Sumphat, draws on the ancestral skills of Thailand's rural people, using them to make objects inspired by nature and tradition.

What do you do when you only have a day or two to get out of Bangkok, too little time to reach the sublime beaches of Krabi, Phuket or Koh Samui? Some will say there's Pattaya, but sigh immediately after uttering the name... The most pleasant option, although without white sand, is 85 kilometres north of Bangkok, in the middle of greenery. This is Ayutthaya, the ancient capital of Siam, founded in the mid-14th century.

It's a characteristic of Asian metropolises that they reveal all their charm when the city lights shine on them. This is even truer in Bangkok, with its myriad lifestyle rooftops perched among the skyscrapers.

Attracting a growing number of increasingly demanding visitors, Bangkok is substantially renewing its hotel offer. And then some.

Sukhumvit... A long avenue, or rather a whole district full of character, stretching between an innovative mall and small houses surrounded by greenery.