Business travel

Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe: Mövenpick is entering a phase of significant growth on almost every continent.

Bookings at more than 3,000 hotels worldwide, centralised payment, traveller management, monitoring of accommodation expenditure: with the AccorHotels Business Solution online platform, SMEs and SMIs have everything they need to rationalise their accommodation budget.

The high-speed airline is launching a new loyalty programme with the addition of an intermediate level.

Having successfully taken its first steps in the hospitality sector in Chicago, Virgin Hotels is now setting out to conquer the American market. The next inauguration is scheduled for early 2018, in San Francisco. In the meantime, New York, Nashville, Dallas and Washington are also on the cards.

EasyJet has just announced the addition of 15 new routes from France, including several targeting business travellers. The airline will thus pass the milestone of 250 destinations in the French market.

Eurowings will be launching a business class called "BIZclass" in 2018: a first for a long-haul low-cost airline.

SNCF, which is aiming to win back 15 million passengers by 2020, was halfway there in 2017 thanks to a recovery in TGV traffic. The changeover of the Voyages-sncf.com website to Oui.sncf is part of this policy of winning back new customers.

Karim Malak, Chief Operating Officer of Adagio, provides an update on the development strategy of the aparthotel brand, which should have 150 establishments by 2021.

A Waldorf Astoria housed in the residence of the British admiralty and the American embassy transformed into a Rosewood: the London hotel industry is multiplying its prestigious venues, while in Paris, chic is in boutique mode.

Since 10 December, TGV Lyria has been offering 3 classes of travel between Paris, Geneva, Basel and Zurich, with its new Business 1ère aimed primarily at business travellers. Now boarding.

TGV Lyria launches its new Business 1st class on 10 December. Andreas Bergmann, CEO of TGV Lyria, gives an update on the rail company's investments aimed at business travellers. Interview by Stéphane Jaladis.

Star Alliance executives were in Paris on Friday to take stock of the latest developments in the alliance as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. Digital technology and the opening up of new partnerships are among the alliance's key areas of development.

The new terminal at Seoul-Incheon airport will be inaugurated on 18 January. This new wing has been completely overhauled technologically and ecologically.

MGallery plans to step up the development of its Inspired by Her offer, dedicated to female customers. The appointment of Inès de la Fressange as the brand's new ambassador should help to extend the aura of this innovative concept, and of the brand as a whole.

The addition of the Hotel Riga to the Kempinski portfolio marks the start of a series of prestigious openings for the luxury group, which is in the process of inaugurating new establishments in Dubai and Muscat.

Long-haul flights, low-cost subsidiaries, commercial agreements, takeovers of traditional airlines... Low-cost carriers have invaded every corner of the air transport industry. Welcome to a new world 'made in' low cost...

Joon's first flight took place on Friday 1 December. The new airline launched by Air France has set its sights on Barcelona, Berlin, Lisbon and Porto, and is clarifying its medium and long-haul ambitions.

Jet Airways has de facto become Air France/KLM's official partner on the Europe-India route, a logical consequence of the partnership established three years ago.

We've been talking about it for ten years, but it's finally here: Jakarta Soekarno Hatta airport, one of the biggest in South East Asia with over 55 million passengers a year, now has a rail link to the Indonesian capital...

From 2020, Lufthansa will be rolling out a new business class on its future Boeing B777-9s, offering maximum comfort for business travellers.