Business travel

The Holiday Inn brand will be making its debut in Senegal in 2027 with a hotel expected to be built in Diamniadio, the fast-growing new town near Dakar and Blaise Diagne airport.

35 years after its beginnings in Brest, B&B Hotels is now one of Europe's leading budget hotels. Flashback on this success story and a look ahead to its new ambitions.

The Skytrax World Airline Awards 2025 named Qatar Airways the best airline in the world, while Air France was crowned best Western European airline.

For Ali Tounsi, Africa by air has enormous potential, both in terms of resources and demographics. But the continent has to contend with a local air transport system that is still unable to free itself from its colonial past and political influences to build efficient hubs linking the entire continent.

EasyJet has just revealed the routes it will be operating from the winter timetable in France, with new routes to the UK in particular.

For the first time this May, passenger numbers at Orly and Paris CDG airports exceeded the 2019 level. This result can be attributed to the Orly hub.

RockyPop, Grand Juste, Amista: each in their own way embodying a hotel industry in tune with the times, new establishments are expected in Marseille this summer.

Despite successive air attacks in the conflict between Iran and Israel, air traffic is gradually returning to normal in the Near and Middle East, particularly in Amman and Beirut. However, many airlines have suspended services to Tel Aviv.

A 25Hours in a new business park, a luxurious Sofitel Legend near the Grand Egyptian Museum, another Mövenpick expected: Cairo is attracting projects from the Accor group.

By 2027, the InterContinental brand will have set up shop in Manchester, in one of the country's tallest towers, with a hotel featuring extensive meeting space.

Italian railway company Trenitalia began services between the two cities on Sunday, with 4 round trips a day.

Political events in Los Angeles have overshadowed a major breakthrough for travellers: the opening of an underground station near the airport, which had been awaited for decades.

The Israeli strikes against Iran have led to a further closure of airspace in the Near and Middle East, forcing airlines to use alternative routes. With the possible delays and cancellations that this implies.

Mandarin Oriental has taken over the management of the San Clemente Palace in Venice, which will come under the luxury brand next year following renovation. In Shanghai, the famous Peace Hotel will become a Raffles in 2027.

Tribe, the Accor group's contemporary, mid-range brand, is adding a second hotel in Budapest, right next to the airport. It has 167 rooms and a meeting room.

It's almost a plebiscite for air travel. According to an FNAM report, 65% of French people say they travel by air, including 33% at least once a year. In fact, 78% agree that air transport is essential to regional development.

With the United States somewhat shunned by European travellers, it is Canada that is benefiting, with an increase in the number of air routes to the Old Continent...

The Ascott group has just unveiled the lyf Gambetta Paris, the first in France of this hybrid lifestyle hotel concept tailored to the needs of digital nomads.

Nestling in a 200-hectare estate, the Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa will be the first hotel in Accor's luxury Emblems Collection brand this year. A debut that calls for further developments.

One of South East Asia's leading low-cost airlines, Singapore-based Jetstar Asia, is to disappear from 31 July following a change of strategy by its parent company, the Australian group Qantas.