Business travel

The Mama Shelter brand will be expanding its footprint in Asia in 2029 with a hotel in Bangkok as part of a fashion project, Platinum Square.

To strengthen its position in the business travel market, B&B Hotels is to deploy the Cvent Business Transient solution across its entire European portfolio.

The Logis Hôtels Group is strengthening its upmarket offering with the acquisition of the Teritoria chain, chaired by Alain Ducasse, adding more than 300 hotels and restaurants to its range, including a number of Michelin-starred establishments.

Delta and United Airlines seem increasingly attracted by the idea of a low-cost business class. This "Business Light" would include only the comfort of a business seat and a meal. Everything else would have to be paid for at extra cost...

Transavia, the low-cost subsidiary of Air France-KLM, plans to offer more flights to the African continent this winter from France. In particular to Hurghada and Dakar. 

"StopOver Bogotá: Love at First Runway" is the name of a programme dedicated to passengers in transit at the international airport. The initiative launched by Bogotá and the airline Avianca is a first in South America.

The Copenhagen-Berlin-Prague route will be operated from May 2026 in around 11 hours by the Comfortjet train, which will be equipped with Wi-Fi and a dining car.

With its first Citadines in Istanbul and two more to come, the Ascott group is making the city, like Turkey, one of its key markets for its expected growth in the Middle East/Africa region.

Dubai airport is offering a new area dedicated to first-class passengers: Emirates First.

The SNCF's MICE offer is moving upmarket with more services and the introduction of premium catering by Michelin-starred chef Frédéric Simonin.

Delta Air Lines recently announced that it was exploring the possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) to set individual airfares for each passenger.

The Accor group's MGallery collection has moved into Biarritz with a renovated 149-room hotel, topped by a rooftop with a swimming pool and a restaurant designed by Eric Fréchon. Also on offer are 11 modular meeting rooms.

Accor's contemporary Tribe brand is opening a new hotel in Pantin, near Paris, with 131 rooms, a coworking space and an events room.

European air connectivity continues to lag behind, despite good growth figures for the continent. This is due to competition from external hubs - particularly in the Middle East - but also to taxes and political policies hostile to air transport.

In the first half of 2025, the two hubs of Paris-CDG and Orly handled 51.35 million passengers, up 4.5% on 2024. Nevertheless, the two airports are still nearly two points below their 2019 results, five years after the Covid crisis...

For its debut in Greece, Yotel will be inaugurating the YotelPad Athens next year. With three sites spread across the capital...

Eklo Hotels is continuing to expand its hybrid offering, a cross between a traditional hotel and a youth hostel, with a new establishment due to open in Paris, at the Porte de Saint-Ouen, as part of an urban project combining offices, hospitality and shops.

Etihad continues to surprise with its dynamism, with the integration of 7 new stopovers. A total of 27 new destinations over 2026-2027. A new record!

With more than 100 hotels in 13 countries, including a new establishment in Paris, the Motel One group offers a range of budget hotels with a distinctive design, while recently turning its attention to the upmarket lifestyle. Here's an update on its development.

Thai hotel group Dusit International is creating its ninth brand: Dusit Hotels, which corresponds to a four-star positioning between Dusit Thani (its luxury brand) and DusitD2. The new brand will help integrate new establishments into the chain's portfolio.