Business travel

The opening of the Olympic Games in Paris will bring an unpleasant surprise for passengers: the ban on flights on the evening of the opening ceremony on 26 July...

As with the RER linking Paris to Roissy-CDG, a special fare will apply to travel to the airport via the extension of line 14, expected in June 2024. Ile-de-France Mobilité has also agreed to an overall increase in fares on 1 January 2024 and during the period of the Olympic Games.

A new urban residence near Gare de Lyon, with another planned for Roissy: Appart'City has made the Paris region one of its priorities as part of the new segmentation of its offering.

With openings in Rome, Paris and Val d'Isère, and a new hotel in Biarritz, Romée de Goriainoff, one of the founders of the Experimental Group, looks back at the appeal of these lifestyle venues to business clients.

Expansion works at Amsterdam Centraal station will force Eurostar to repatriate its departures to London to Brussels-Midi between June 2024 and early 2025.

The Air France-KLM Group and Etihad Airways are extending their cooperation to their frequent flyer programmes. 

Construction work and track upgrades on both the French and Swiss sides will mean fewer trains between France and Switzerland. And between Geneva and Lausanne. However, new links will be set up between Paris and Berne, as well as between Marseille, Lyon and Geneva.

Adjacent to La Part-Dieu station, the Pullman Lyon has opened its doors. Housed in the To-Lyon tower, this top-of-the-range hotel offers 168 rooms and numerous meeting rooms.

With a new hotel opening at Tokyo Haneda airport and other hotels in the pipeline in Bangkok, Amritsar, Japan and China, the Mercure brand continues to make headway in Asia.

The dedicated Train + Air intermodal service will cover new routes to improve links between Air France and SNCF services. United, Lufthansa and Deutsche Bahn are doing the same on the transatlantic route, under the Star Alliance umbrella.

Featuring a large conference centre, the Dolce by Wyndham Versailles will take up residence in March 2024 on the historic Domaine de Montcel, which was once home to the Fondation Cartier.

What if the Grand Paris Express included a line 19 between Nanterre and Gonesse? Valérie Pécresse and the Val d'Oise want to believe in it. Business travellers would be able to reach Paris CDG from La Défense.

A new signature evoking a bleisure positioning for Hyatt Regency, contemporary design for Courtyard by Marriott in Europe: hotel brands are evolving in line with trends.

With two weekly flights between Strasbourg and Berlin, Volotea confirms its leading role for the Alsace metropolis. The airline will also soon be inaugurating a base in Brest.

The partnership between Air France and Etihad is taking shape with the launch of a flight between Nice and Abu Dhabi. The Gulf carrier is also announcing more frequencies to Asia.

The geopolitical tension weighing on Air France's activities in West Africa could stimulate the ambitions of African airlines.

Located close to Nice Côte d'Azur airport, Saint-Augustin SNCF station is to be completely rebuilt to make way for a revolutionary multimodal station.

The Ascott group has just opened two new establishments in Vienna, one a coliving-style lyf residence and the other under the Somerset brand, suitable for long stays.

Horwath HTL analyses the development of the hotel sector in the DACH region, the three countries of the German-speaking world: Austria, Switzerland and, above all, Germany, which is approaching the one million mark in terms of hotel rooms.

With Oh Baby, Serge Trigano intends to apply the recipes that have made Mama Shelter such a success to the budget hotel sector.