Business travel

Oneworld is adding new benefits - priority baggage delivery and extended deductibles - for the most loyal members of the alliance's member airlines.

Spanish hotel group Melia International is to invest €100 million to accelerate its digital transformation.

The travel industry is taking its turn with its digital plans. Hotel groups Accor, a month ago, and Melia International, this week, announced investments of hundreds of millions of euros in new technologies. For its part, the airline group LATAM went back over the 80 million euros that the group spent in 2014 on improving its high-tech services.

European sanctions had grounded Aeroflot's ambitions in the low-cost segment. At the end of May, the airline had chosen to serve Simferopol in Crimea as its first destination. However, the Russian airline, which is a member of SkyTeam, is not abandoning its desire to connect the country's regions with low-cost flights, in particular to compete with S7, the domestic leader which joined oneworld in 2010.

Hotel operator Wyndham Worldwide is accelerating its growth in India with the opening of a Ramada Encore and a Howard Johnson in Bangalore. Around thirty hotels of these...

In partnership with PressReader, the world leader in digital kiosks, the Accor group will be offering travellers a free press service accessible on their mobile devices.

The Kempinski luxury hotel group is opening two hotels in Qatar and China. Two establishments that stand out from the crowd thanks to their architecture and their capacity to host large-scale events.

415 billion dollars. It's a staggering figure. According to a survey by the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), this is the total amount currently being invested in new airports and aviation infrastructure.

In its "Global Business Travel Forecast 2015", American Express Business Travel forecasts a slight increase in hotel rates in France for 2015. While prices on long-haul flights are also expected to rise, prices on domestic routes are expected to fall.

Mathias Warns is Vice-President of Corporate Sales for the HRS Group and a member of the Executive Committee. This business travel specialist, who has also worked for the HRG business travel agency, shares his expertise on the various trends in the business travel market - dematerialisation, mobile revolution, TMC, Airbnb, Booking, etc. - and defines HRS's ambitions on the international stage. - and sets out HRS's ambitions on the international stage. Interview. 

On 23 November, Appart'City opens the Appart'City Strasbourg Aéroport residence. This new address - the 117th - will welcome business travellers just a quarter of an hour from the city centre.

Kayak.fr tried its hand at a tedious but extremely useful exercise for these business traveller-sprinters, whose busy schedules limit the margin for error at the airport to the bare minimum. The travel comparison website has published a table comparing the average walking time between security checkpoints and boarding gates at several major European airports. 

From January 2015, Nice Côte d'Azur Airport will be embarking on a major renovation programme for Terminals 1 and 2, with the aim of creating, by 2017, "a comfort area that meets the standards of a leading European airport, with the added bonus of the Riviera's touch". Airport officials have just unveiled the details of this ambitious project.

Crowne Plaza is launching a new room concept specially designed to meet the changing needs of business travellers.

City meetings or country seminars... When it comes to planning an event, organisers are faced with this alternative. Despite overloaded diaries, companies are not hesitating to go green to encourage cohesion and sharing. But without straying too far from their roots...

easyJet's French catalogue is being expanded with the opening of eleven new routes from France, including seven scheduled connections in 2015, and several top business destinations.

Emirates intends to offer free Wi-Fi on board "as soon as possible". The airline is backing its strategy with an annual investment of over 20 million dollars.

With its new SnapCar Classic business range, the VTC specialist for business customers aims to shake up an increasingly coveted market by combining "premium quality" with "aggressive pricing". Its priority target: business travellers to and from airports.

A few hours before the start of the strike action due to begin at 7pm on Monday 3 November, SNCF has published reassuring traffic forecasts, with "normal" to "near-normal" traffic.

British Airways is moving to real-time information, with push notifications sent via the airline's application, which will focus on personalising the service by using iBeacon technology.