Business travel

Consultancy firm PwC predicts good results for the European hotel industry in 2018 and 2019, following an excellent 2017. Paris, Lisbon and Amsterdam are among the destinations expected to benefit most from this windfall, while the Brexit is weighing on the prospects for the London hotel industry.

AccorHotels will be offering event organisers Cvent's Passkey solution, which makes it easy to manage bookings and communication around meetings from a dedicated website.

Already present on the Paris-Shanghai and Paris-Kunming routes, Air France partner China Eastern intends to launch a Paris-Beijing flight in 2019/2020.

Through its "Curio Collection by Hilton" light brand, the American hotel group aims to offer its customers the independent hotel experience. Interview with Mark Nogal, global head of the brand.

Through his establishments - the Grand Pigalle Hotel and Hôtel Grands Boulevards in Paris, the Henrietta in London - Olivier Bon, co-founder of the Experimental Group, aims to transform hotels into living spaces.

They all have fewer than fifty rooms and take advantage of their modest size to offer travellers that personalised welcome not always found in chain establishments. Design or cosy, independent hotels are a charming alternative to the big business classics.

A former director of the Hachette group and Presstalis, and a minister under Alain Juppé between 1995 and 1997, Anne-Marie Couderc is taking over as head of the Air France-KLM group during the transition phase.

Competition is fierce in the low-cost air transport sector to Japan, but it remains essentially concentrated in the hands of non-Japanese operators, particularly in the long-haul sector. Japan Airlines aims to change this situation by launching a low-cost airline serving Asia, Europe and the United States by 2020.

Business travellers due to take the train on Monday 14 May can expect an extremely complicated day on national and international lines, as well as in the Ile-de-France region.

Already a major player in South America, AccorHotels is strengthening its presence in the region with the acquisition of Atton Hotels.

2017 was a record year for air travel between France and the UK, with new routes opening between the two countries. Is this the swan song or does Britain still hold its appeal for French businessmen?

Yotel, which specialises in airport hotels with designer, high-tech cabins, has signed an agreement to open a hotel in Istanbul's future mega-hub, due to open in October.

British Airways is relaunching its non-stop service between London Heathrow and Durban in South Africa after an 18-year hiatus. An opportunity for this metropolis of 3.2 million inhabitants, one of the most dynamic in the southern hemisphere.

Perceived as a symbol of the privileged, business aviation continues to prosper despite the economic crises. Quite simply because it is also a strategic tool for companies, providing them with the most flexible - and often the most cost-effective - means of travelling to the four corners of the globe.

As Europe's leading business aviation airport, Le Bourget is a centre of excellence for the aeronautical industry, with hotel facilities to boot. Investments are continuing to upgrade the airport.

Sarah Djeradi, Wijet's Marketing Director, takes a look at the advantages of business aviation and the expectations of a changing customer base.

On the 16th day of strikes on the SNCF network, the railway company plans to operate one TGV link in two on 9 May. International lines, notably Eurostar and Thalys, are relatively unaffected.

Emmanuel Schott, Managing Director of Tiara Hotels France, reviews the brand's latest developments and its positioning in the seminar market.

With the strike at Air France continuing on 7 May and a transitional governance structure due to be put in place following the resignation of Jean-Marc Janaillac, Bruno Le Maire believes that the airline's "survival" is at stake.

Until now, to compete with airlines, led by low-cost companies, rail operators have focused on the speed of rail travel. Now they are playing the service card - personalisation, connectivity, digitalisation - all to counter the policy of downgrading companies.