Business travel

Thailand is now allowing a number of airlines to carry passengers to Bangkok.

The Grand Quartier is adapting its hotel, meeting and coworking facilities to meet changing demand.

Almost all Accor hotels worldwide have implemented the ALLSAFE programme, based on health standards developed by Bureau Veritas.

Bertrand Gosselin, CEO of Thalys, reports on the management of the health crisis within the rail company, the commercial initiatives to encourage the return of business customers, and the progress of strategic projects such as the merger with Eurostar.

The oneworld global airline alliance is preparing to welcome a new member, Alaska Airlines, on 31 March. The carrier will be the second North American airline in the...

The Meininger hotel chain operates in the budget segment with two- to three-star establishments. From a concept aimed primarily at families, the chain is beginning to attract business travellers. 

Finnair has finally published its winter schedule. The airline will continue to focus on Europe-Asia traffic despite a reduced number of frequencies and destinations.

After a few months of renovation, the Marrakech palace La Mamounia is reopening its doors with a completely redesigned restaurant area.

Riddled with debt for years and decimated by covid-19, Alitalia is giving way to a new public airline, ITA.

Contactless technology, biometrics, robots: spurred on by the pandemic, the digitalisation of the passenger journey is gathering pace.

In August, ACI (Airports Council International) launched an application to provide travellers with precise information on health measures in force at airports worldwide.

Shaken by the health crisis, the airlines are trying to get back to business, keeping a close eye on how the pandemic develops. However, uncertainty remains the watchword in the airline industry, which has had to adapt its products and services to a world that has become chaotic.

With a large proportion of their business concentrated in airports and railway stations, car rental companies were understandably hit by the effects of the pandemic on tourism, with a halt to business travel and a drop in domestic and international flights.

What is it like to travel on business in the age of the pandemic? Masked, of course, but in the end you 'survive' just fine on planes, trains, taxis and public transport. Here's the experience of a trip made in August between Paris and Berlin.

Deutsche Bahn has unveiled its new 2021 timetable, which comes into force on 13 December. From that date, more of the latest generation of ICE 4 high-speed trains will be running on the German network.

In September 2020 Kapten Business became FREE NOW for Business following the merger between Kapten and Europe's number 1 multimodal application FREE NOW, which was born of the merger between Daimler and BMW. This change is accompanied by an international strategy for FREE NOW for Business. Interview with Dimitri Tsygalnitzky, VP Western Europe FREE NOW for Business.

The Australian government has just presented its budget for the 2020/2021 financial year. With the assumption that international visitors will not be allowed to come...

Tribe, Accor's new contemporary brand, has just opened its first hotel in Paris, and in Europe, in the Batignolles district.

The covid pandemic combined with the Hungarian government's nationalist policies have resulted in the closure - for the second time this year - of the country's borders. A decision that has brought the country's hotel and air transport industries to their knees. It is also helping to marginalise Budapest as a business destination in Europe.

In October, Japanese airline ANA celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its flight between Paris CDG and Tokyo, temporarily reduced from a daily frequency to three flights a week.