Business travel

From the first kilometre of a business trip right through to arrival at the destination, business travellers and travel managers alike need to be kept abreast of the constant changes in business travel: new air services, business classes, loyalty programmesservices railway companies in trains or stationsoffers taxis or VTC for professionals...(see more)

Not forgetting the new players in the collaborative economy and the technology sector... Daily monitoring of these developments to ensure that business travel is ever safer, more comfortable and more sustainable, in business destinations in France and abroad.

Eastern Europe, spearheading hotel development

Tourism growth, economic development and a rapidly evolving hotel sector: Eastern Europe remains one of the most attractive territories for...

SNCF and Alstom pave the way for the TGV of the future

SNCF and Alstom presented their first innovation partnership on Wednesday, a cooperation cell designed to design the new generation of trains to...

Aloft: rooms that respond to your voice

Who hasn't tried to figure out how the air conditioning or heating works in their hotel room? Aloft...

Hotels: the GBTA on the lookout for travellers' mobile expectations

"Show me your smartphone and I'll tell you what kind of business traveller you are"... That's the gist of this new study published by the GBTA Foundation, which...

Delta Air Lines launches business class suites

American companies are now competing through the quality of their products offered to business travellers. Following United, which last June presented its...

Study: Transavia targets bleisure

Transavia has published a study on the practice of bleisure among French business travellers. According to the airline, this habit is becoming more and more common as it aims to carry more business travellers across Europe.

Finnair on the way to full WiFi

Last year, when Finnair brought the Airbus A350XWB into service, it was a first for the Scandinavian airline: it was able to offer its customers...

Interview: Hervé Kozar, Transavia France

Transavia has published a study on the theme of bleisure, that mix of business and leisure activities. Interview with Hervé Kozar, Executive Vice President Commercial at Transavia.

Airports: business travellers' big fears and little anxieties

Liligo has published an infographic on the sources of stress for French travellers before, during and after their flight. Baggage reclaim is the stage most dreaded by passengers.

Urban residences: the spirit of the times

A home away from home, even a thousand miles away: urban residences offer a contemporary accommodation solution for business travellers on long-term assignments.

Meet Hans Meyer, co-founder of the Zoku brand

What is the best way to define the Zoku concept? Hans Meyer – What we have created with Marc Jongerius marks for me...

A responsible floating hotel sets sail for London

London will also have its own floating hotel. Following the example of the OFF Seine, which opened in Paris during the summer, the Thames will soon be home to a 148-room hotel...

Nice airport suffers the aftermath of the attack

Air traffic is depressed in Nice, France's second-largest airport after Paris with just over 12 million passengers a year. The airport...

Brexit: not such a negative effect according to ForwardKeys

Would the Cassandras have shouted louder than the others? Following the vote on 23rd June last which ratified the exit from the European Union...

Eurowings sets its sights on Salzburg

With 1.83 million annual passengers, Salzburg is Austria's second most important airport, behind Vienna. The terminal located a few kilometres away from the...

South East Asia: trains worthy of the name at last!

For decades, the train has not really been a viable transport alternative in South East Asia. But the beginnings of a rail revolution are here, and should make rail a credible alternative by the start of the next decade.

Low-cost air travel develops between Europe and Asia

There was first the Scandinavia-Thailand axis, with Norwegian Air - which serves Bangkok from Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm; then Cologne-Bangkok and Cologne-Phuket with the German...

The trendy, arty tone of Melia Hotels

An ode to Velázquez. Opened in July in the centre of Madrid, the Gran Meliá Palacio de los Duques celebrates the memory...

German business travel targeted by Moxy Hotels

The German market is clearly of crucial importance to the European expansion strategy of Moxy, the lifestyle brand unveiled in 2013 by the hotel group Marriott. After...

Brexit: the British hotel industry puts up resistance

The post-Brexit slaughter predicted across the Channel has not really affected the British hotel industry. At least that's the conclusion of a study published on 16 August by Trivago....