Business travel

Pullman for business, Adagio for long stays: Accor is offering two new hotels in the heart of Dubai.

SNCB has just launched its new mobile application, with practical features for business travellers in Belgium, including train occupancy rates.

The Adagio brand of urban residences is continuing to expand in Germany with the announcement of a new project in Stuttgart, in a district that is currently undergoing major regeneration.

Sydney will join the 25hours catalogue of destinations, with the opening of a new hotel at the end of 2022.

To travel to the Netherlands, the government now requires a second negative test for covid-19. As an immediate consequence, KLM suspended all its long-haul routes on 22 January.

Emirates and Etihad, the two airlines of the United Arab Emirates, have volunteered to launch the IATA Travel Pass, an application enabling travellers to better manage their journeys in times of crisis.

The flying taxi is getting closer to Paris. The project leaders (Choose Paris Region, the ADP Group and the RATP Group) have just announced the partners selected to begin tests this summer.

As Dubai continues to diversify its hotel offering, new top-of-the-range and lifestyle hotels are expected throughout the region.

According to MKG Consulting, the French hotel industry recorded an unprecedented fall in business in 2020, albeit less marked than in other European countries.

Despite the pandemic, the Accor group is continuing to expand, with a host of new luxury and lifestyle hotels planned for 2021.

Eurostar finds itself in a catastrophic situation as a result of the pandemic. The rail operator could even go bankrupt if the British and French governments stick to their national positions. 

Faced with a sharp rise in the number of people affected by the mutant covid-19 virus, the UK is taking even more radical decisions to restrict the movement of travellers. For one month.

Finnish national airline Finnair is now offering one-way fares, giving passengers greater flexibility. 

The airline, which recorded a 40% drop in traffic in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus epidemic, is hoping for a recovery in business in 2021 thanks to the vaccination. The airline group is even planning to open routes to New York and Cancun operated by its long-haul low-cost carrier French Bee.

Italy, Spain and Portugal: these three southern European countries will see the emergence of new top-of-the-range lifestyle hotels at affordable prices.

Vaccination passports to make it easier to cross borders or attend major congresses, deployment of high-tech health certificates to prove negative covid tests: governments and the tourism industry are considering several solutions to get travel moving again.

The low-cost carrier Norwegian has decided to abandon all its long-haul flights to the United States and Asia. It will now concentrate its offer on Scandinavia-Europe routes. 

PCR tests required prior to arrival in France for non-EU travellers, tighter measures for French overseas departments and territories: new restrictions have been announced by the Prime Minister.

In France, the UK and Switzerland, the pandemic is not slowing down the development of new lifestyle hotels or future palaces. Here is a non-exhaustive overview of the openings expected this year.

Indian carrier Vistara is ramping up its international operations with new routes from Frankfurt and London. And there is also talk of the return of Jet Airways 2.0.