Business destinations

Candidature for the 2020 Universal Exhibition, new development projects, free trade zones, emerging sectors : Dubai continues to conquer the desert...

Identity card Currency: the euro Area code: +49 (Germany), (0)40 (Hamburg). Getting there AIR FRANCE offers four daily flights from Paris CDG, with a flight time of...

New eco-friendly districts, new parks, new hybrid bus networks... the holder of the title of European Green Capital 2011 has not finished setting an example.

 Joël Fournier is Finance Director for Steria Mummert Consulting, an IT services provider.

A major port city, young and innovative, Hamburg is now Europe's tenth most visited city. Business travellers flock here, attracted as much by its strongholds such as Airbus as by its creative companies.

Jan Van Rossem created, with his partner Monika BruneHamburg's first designer furniture gallery, the Lazy Dog gallery, offers contemporary and vintage objects by designers from all over Europe.

Getting there AIR FRANCE operates thirteen weekly flights between Paris and Rio, offered by Airbus A330 or Boeing B747 four-class aircraft. Phone: 0820 820 820 Internet...

Identity card Formalities: valid passport Currency: Canadian dollar (CAD). 1 euro = 1.31 dollars (January 2013).time difference: -6h.area code...

A French-born art historian and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Nathalie Bondil was appointed Director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2007.

Driven by a thriving cultural and economic scene, Montreal's hotel landscape is changing. Luxury hotels are coming up to date, while new business hotels are playing the urban-chic card to the full.

François Boscher is a lawyer at BDG Law.

Harsh winters, but a gentle way of life; hard work, but an open mind; uncompromising business, but opportunities: these are the reasons why French people come to - and stay in - Montreal...

Catherine Chaulet is Vice-President of the Franco-American Chamber of Commerce and Senior Vice-President of BostonCoach-Best of Boston.

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Formalities : passport valid for six months after date of entry + visa.

Currency : the rupee (INR).
1 euro = 69.52 rupees (November 2012)

Time difference : +4h30 in winter and +3h30 in summer.

Area code : +91 (India), 22 (Bombay), 80 (Bangalore)

With 1,200 new films a year, the Indian film industry has a bright future ahead of it... despite many upheavals.

Romain Lacroix is Managing Director of Maped, a French brand of school supplies.

Innovative offices, quirky hotels and beach bars: landmarks in Europe's least stressful business district.

How do you reinvent yourself and become one of the trendiest cities in Asia? The ambitions of a mayor who has since become President of the Republic of Korea have enabled Seoul to achieve this second miracle: transforming a capital that was once seen as dull and grey into an urban model for the whole continent...