Business travel

The Marriott group is launching a practical new option for business travellers: mobile check-in, available in over 300 establishments in the United States.

Istanbul will soon be home to a new Radisson Blu hotel: the Radisson Blu Tuzla is due to welcome its first guests in the last quarter of 2013.

Oman Air is innovating for its business travellers by inaugurating a new check-in lounge at Muscat airport.

Malaysia Airlines, a new member of the oneworld alliance, is expanding its network with new flights to Dubai and India.

Business travellers on the Qatar Airways network will be able to travel at a higher fare from 1 January.^er September, thanks to higher baggage allowances.

Sébastien Bazin succeeds Denis Hennequin at the head of Accor. The Director of Colony Capital in Europe was appointed by the hotel giant's Board of Directors on the morning of 27 August. He leaves his position at the investment fund, which he has managed in Europe since 1997.

Since Monday 26 August, SNCF has been operating a new service between Paris and Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) in 3 hours 47 minutes, six days a week.

The Aloft Kiev hotel is due to open its doors in the Ukrainian capital's business district during 2015, marking the brand's debut in a buoyant market.

Traffic has been gradually resuming at Nairobi airport since Wednesday evening, less than 24 hours after the huge fire that hit Kenya's main hub. A flight from London was able to land on Thursday morning.

Jomo Kenyatta Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi has been closed and all flights cancelled until further notice. A fire of unknown origin broke out in the early hours of Wednesday 7 August, causing no casualties.

Timothée de Roux is Deputy Managing Director of Châteaux & Hôtels Collection. He highlights the brand's values and strengths in the seminar market.

Eurostar ended the first half of the year on a growth note, with a combined increase in sales (+7 %) and traffic (+2%), driven in particular by business travellers.

Since 2 July, a code-share agreement with Middle East Airlines has enabled Air France to take business travellers to Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Accor group confirms its ambitions on the Russian market, with the inauguration of a new hotel - on the 18^th in Russia, and on 5^th in the capital - in Moscow's business centre: the Novotel Moscow City.

Hilton has reached a major milestone with the inauguration of its 4000^th hotel, the Hilton Shijiazhuang, in Heibei province, China.

Iberia is launching a new service enabling passengers to check in their own hold baggage by printing out an identification tag in just a few clicks from their office or home. Fast, free and efficient.

Aigle Azur is continuing to extend its online check-in service, adding the Paris-Moscow route to the routes covered by the service.

If we follow the conclusions of the Skytrax consultancy, whose annual rankings have become the benchmark for evaluating airline and airport services, there are very few airports in the United States to make it into the top 50 of the world's best air hubs.

Delta Air Lines moved into the new Terminal 4 at New York's JFK airport last May.

HRG has published a study of business travel transactions for its UK-based customers. The business travel agency (TMC) draws some optimistic conclusions, while highlighting the wide disparities between certain destinations, and the marked downturn in business class.