Business destinations

An overview of business destinations in France and internationally, to help business travellers get to know the key business hubs - and in particular their business districts - but also emerging destinations who are making their mark on the business travel atlas (see more)

Reports, interviews, address books: get to the heart of your next destination to help you prepare for your business trip. Economy, hotels, bleisure, great addresses and little finds: an international business traveller's guide to making business trips more efficient, and more enjoyable...

The tertiary era

The vast majority of Hong Kong's inhabitants are city dwellers. Agriculture is a very marginal activity, while industry, long favoured by a good labour force, is a...

Macha Méril: in all humility

It's a sort of ideal suitcase, in the shape of a cardboard sheet. I made a list of everything that should be in the suitcase: two...

Bangalore: the boom, then what?

With sales of $22 billion, the Indian IT services sector recorded growth of 32 % in 2005...

New Paris-Bangalore route

Six months after the opening of the Paris-Chennai (Madras) route, Air France continued its conquest of the Indian market with the inauguration on 30 October of...

Christian Cabrol: travelling from the heart

Conferences, symposia, pre-operative patient visits... These are words that, for me, rhyme with travel. Not very entertaining at first sight! My job,...

Paris & Ile-de-France: the strength of the banks of the Seine

Immobile, backward-looking, irreformable... this is the sad portrait of France in 2006 as seen by the bitter prophets of French decadence. They forget one...

Amsterdam : Zuidas

2.3 million square metres of living space spread out - or rather piled up - over 300 hectares, between the city centre and the airport: the Zuidas district, to the south of...

Claude Taittinger: gentleman traveller

First, you need a guide. Or a friend who lives abroad... That's why I've always opted for the local guide during my...

Natalie Dessay: an enchanted traveller

Tokyo, that's a trip that really made an impression on me; it's funny, actually, because at first I had no desire to go there! I thought...

Michel Legrand: music and travel

I was on my way to Geneva for some meetings. Next to me on the plane sat a musician. We started a game of chess... all the musicians...

Casablanca: out of the office

Tangier, Fez, Marrakech: everyone knows them, everyone dreams about them. But what about Casablanca? The name of Morocco's largest city - with a population of 3.8 million - generates few fantasies, except, for discerning film buffs, the memory of Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart kissing at Rick's Cafe.

Saïd Mouhid, Managing Director of the Casablanca Regional Tourism Council

What is the aim of the Casablanca 2012 Programme Contract? Saïd Mouhid - Tourism is a cross-cutting industry that generates income for a whole range of sectors,...

World Summit on the Information Society

In November, the Tunisian capital hosted the World Summit on the Information Society. Two topical themes, Internet governance and the...

Tourism: record and renewal

2004 was a record year for Tunisian tourism, with 5,997,929 admissions, 11.3 % more than in 2001, the previous record year....