Business travel

For each event organised in its participating hotels between now and the end of March 2022, the Radisson Group will offset twice their carbon footprint. The initiative is called "Carbon Negative. Planet Positive".

With its "Riposte" project, SNCF is stepping up the services offered to its business customers on the Paris-Lyon line in preparation for the imminent arrival of its Italian competitor Trenitalia. The offer is similar to that available on Thalys, Lyria and Eurostar trains.

In Zurich, Accor is offering two new establishments integrated into the same complex, combining an ibis Styles and an Adagio aparthotel.

The contemporary Voco brand is expanding its footprint in Seoul and Milan, the latest development in the IHG Group's expansion strategy in Italy.

United Airlines is confident about the future. It has just announced the biggest expansion in its history on the transatlantic route, with 10 new flights and 5 new destinations. In addition, the airline has announced its return to Nice.

Specialising in flexible office buildings, Newton Offices will be adding two new solutions in Nice in 2023, in the Grand Arenas business district and in the Sophia Antipolis technology park.

The Accor group is opening an ibis and an ibis budget near terminal 5 at London Heathrow airport, two hotels sharing the same bar and restaurant.

The planned opening up of Thailand to a dozen or so countries on November 1 has prompted Thai Airways International to resume its international flights from Bangkok. For the moment, the airline offers a handful of weekly flights, mainly to Phuket.

Over the past few days, passengers travelling to Germany have been faced with a two-hour wait to pass through the controls and check in. This situation is due to a lack of staff and the austerity measures introduced by airports in the wake of the covid pandemic. But this situation should not last, according to the authorities.

The SNCF and its partner Newrest are playing the card of two young chefs and products made in France, many of them organic, to win over business travellers on board the TGV.

Keeze has just inaugurated a ninth coworking address in central Paris: the Villa des Champs opened its doors at the beginning of October, in the 8th arrondissement.

Caen, Biarritz, Nantes, Montpellier: Best Western's French network has added several new hotels in the last two months. Another development is an increasingly digital customer relationship.

Pierre-Olivier Bard, Director of Avis Budget Group in France, talks about the recovery and looks back over the past year. Other topics include new services and the greening of the fleet.

Heathrow Express, the rail service serving London airport, has entered into a partnership with Google Maps, enabling business travellers to purchase their tickets via the platform specialising in travel itineraries.

While the Pullman brand is expected to open in Singapore early next year, Accor has just opened a Mövenpick near Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen airport. A hotel with a large capacity for meetings and events.

The G7 taxi company has achieved its targets, with 50 % of its fleet made up of hybrid or electric vehicles. The Green fleet will continue to grow between now and 2027.

Over the coming months, Accor will be adopting the GroupSync Engage solution, enabling meeting rooms and rooms to be booked online in real time. A step forward in the digital distribution of the MICE segment.

Ryanair has just announced that it is strengthening its presence in the Veneto region by setting up operations at Venice Marco Polo airport. The airline will operate flights to Marseille and Toulouse. The low-cost carrier is now the leading air operator in the Veneto region.

The airline industry had promised that there would be no discrimination between vaccinated and non-vaccinated passengers who tested negative for covid. The good resolution is cracking: Qantas and Air New Zealand only want to carry vaccinated travellers. A breach in the legality of the process? In any case, Pandora's box has been opened: AirAsia has just followed suit, and other airlines are sure to follow...

Since 11 October, users of Bonjour RATP - the new version of the mobile application - have been able to reserve an electric scooter from the Tier network.