The development of Kansai International Airport
Fifteen billion dollars, almost five billion more than the initial budget: that was the staggering cost of the...
Plein ciel
Initially designed to become a space city with four towers, the Umeda Sky Building has just two, 173 metres high, towers...
Teruyuki Takahashi, Managing Director of the Osaka Representative Office in France
How can you help French investors who want to find out more about Osaka and the region?
Teruyuki Takahashi - Our office, opened in 1992, has...
Tradition and modernity
Tradition and modernity often go hand in hand in Japan. Offices, showrooms and green spaces in the Osaka business park near the old castle.
Christian Mutschlechner Director of the Vienna Convention Bureau
How did the idea for Vienna Donau-City come about?
Christian Mutschlechner - Covering the motorway north of the Danube freed up a lot of space...
The buildings of Donau-City
Andromeda Tower
Designed by Wilhem Holzbauer, the Andromeda Tower was Vienna DC's first building, inaugurated in 1998. It reaches a height of 113 metres -...
Vienna Donau-City
In Vienna, there is now life far beyond the Ring. And even behind the Danube, thanks to the emergence of a new business district...
Pierre Arditi: travelling is creating the world
My favourite destination will seem very strange to you: it's Paris... After all, what could be more divine than to be on holiday in this city...
Paolo Costa: a Venetian and the roundness of the world
Chairman of the European Commission for Transport and Tourism, Paolo Costa travels the world by car, train and plane... without ever quenching his thirst for...
Tunisia, Libya, Morocco
TunisiaThousands of palm trees at the gateway to the desert
Palm trees, thousands of palm trees, a sea of palm trees; there are 600,000 of them -...
César Saint Ouen, director of the Croisière Jaune incoming agency
How long has Croisière Jaune been around? What is it all about?
César Saint Ouen - The company was created on 7 November 2001, Croisière Jaune is celebrating...
Salima Haddour, Director of the Moroccan National Tourist Office in France
What are the advantages of southern Morocco as an incentive destination?
Salima Haddour - First of all, it's a destination that's very close to Europe, well served by...
Samer Jabri, Managing Director of Magic Libya
Until now, Libya has been a closed country, to say the least?
Samer Jabri - That's true. But I would say that the country is opening up considerably...
Greater New York: Business as usual
Does France doubt itself? Fortunately, New York is there to reassure it... Between the media uproar surrounding the new Vuitton boutique in...
Financial District
The world's largest stock exchange is in New York. The New York Stock Exchange represents a market of 28,000 listed companies. With...
Éric Le Goff, Associate Director of Cushman & Wakefield
Has New York real estate reached its peak?
E. L. G. - I don't think so, at least not in my sector, commercial property. But then...
Serge Lemoine: an insatiable traveller
I'm impatient by nature... I don't like staying in the same place, doing the same thing twice. I travel a lot, and that makes me...
Barcelona: the Eixample
A European star in urban tourism, Barcelona has got into the habit, over the last fifteen years or so, of piling up construction sites to constantly surprise. But today, as...
Destination china Change of course
Stripped of its industries and refocused on its banks, stock exchange and port, Hong Kong has become the hub of the new economic world...
Jean-Jacques Reibel, Director of the InterContinental Hotel in Hong Kong
Five years ago, InterContinental took over the legendary Regent in Hong Kong. What have been the main changes to the hotel since then?
J.-J. R -...
