Business travel

Business travellers will soon be able to travel to Bordeaux city centre from the airport by tram. The first trials took place on Wednesday.

The new rail company Le Train, which plans to operate lines in the Greater West of France by 2025, has chosen the Spanish manufacturer Talgo for its future classless trains.

A shopping centre, restaurants, offices and coworking spaces: the Ibis Styles and Adagio brands are preparing to take up residence in 2024 in a vast property complex currently under development in Abidjan.

Unveiled in 2019, the Eurostar-Thalys merger project has survived Brexit and Covid. It is now getting down to business with the launch of a new logo and, in October, a single Eurostar application and website.

Business travellers can now communicate with Air France via WhatsApp, in the same way as other business travel operators.

Norse Atlantic will be making its debut at Fiumicino as summer approaches, with a new strategic flight for business customers between Rome and New York.

Traffic at Gare de l'Est in Paris, which was interrupted on Tuesday, will continue to be disrupted on Wednesday 25 January.

Rewards points from Accor's ALL programme can be exchanged for Volare points from the ITA Airways programme, and vice versa: members of both loyalty programmes will soon be able to benefit from a two-way conversion offer.

Urban retreats reinterpreting the past in a contemporary way from Tel Aviv to London via Rome and Lisbon, VIP resorts in Sologne as well as in Dubai or the Norwegian fjords: Six Senses spreads its exclusive spirit around the world.

Bangkok's new central station is now the new nerve centre of rail activity in Thailand. The largest railway station in South-East Asia will serve as the starting point for the future high-speed network.

Air France has unveiled new ambitions for its Caribbean Regional Network. These include new opportunities at Cayenne airport.

Expanding the Deutsche Hospitality Group's offering at Berlin airport, the IntercityHotel Berlin Brandenburg BER offers 360 rooms and seven meeting rooms, in the immediate vicinity of terminals 1 and 2.

French air transport confirmed its return to normal in December. According to the DGAC, passenger traffic was only 6.1% lower than in December 2019. For 2022, the number of passengers in France is only 19.4% lower than in 2019...

All Nippon Airways to Brussels and Munich; Korean Air to Prague and Zurich: the two Asian carriers are relaunching their services to Europe this spring.

Amsterdam Schiphol airport will soon lift the traffic limit imposed on the Dutch hub, which was made necessary by post-Covid saturation.

Accor is adding a new brand to its portfolio, designed for upscale hotels with character: the Handwritten Collection. Toulouse, Annecy, Shanghai and Sydney are just some of the dozen hotels that will carry the Handwritten Collection brand from 2023, out of more than a hundred planned.

B&B Hotels is offering a new budget hotel in Toulon, in a development area near the railway station. Further developments are expected in 2023, notably at Geneva airport.

British rail companies will soon be affected by a new strike, expected in early February.

New York-JFK, Rio de Janeiro and Dakar are the lucky destinations chosen by Air France for the launch of its brand new long-haul cabin products. Take off on 20 January!

We know more about the impact of the 19 January strike on business travel. Metro, trains, planes: the forecasts for this day of national action.