Business travel

An ME by Melia hotel with a large MICE area in a tower designed by Zaha Hadid, another lifestyle establishment under the Hyatt Centric brand: the seaside resort of St Julian's in Malta is strengthening its hotel offering.

Barcelona, Cork, Dubai, Lusaka, Madrid: the Marriott group has strengthened its business hotel offer in numerous destinations.

Singapore Airlines has announced that it is investing 766 million euros in a large-scale transformation of the cabins on its Airbus A350 aircraft. The main aim of the programme is to improve the comfort of the First and Business classes.

The largest Sofitel in the world, with a panoramic view of the Nile and meeting space, as well as an arty Hyatt Centric: Cairo is home to two new hotels.

Demand for air travel reached a record high in September, according to the latest figures released by IATA. The devastating effects of the pandemic are now far behind us.

The increase in the solidarity tax on air transport planned by the French government is already being applied to Air France tickets. The national carrier has already incorporated the increase for all tickets put on sale from 1 January 2025.

Saudi Arabia's new international airline, Riyadh Air, has completed its future aircraft fleet with an order for 60 Airbus A320neo aircraft. The aircraft are still scheduled to take off in 2025, despite the uncertainty surrounding the delivery schedule...

As a leisure or MICE destination, Air France will be inaugurating a non-stop service to Orlando in Florida for the summer 2025 season.

François Durovray wants to make TGV lines rhyme with regional development through original proposals that will be unveiled before the summer of 2025.

As the big names in New York hotels reinvent themselves, new hotels are popping up all the time in the city that never sleeps.

In 2024, Copenhagen airport is expected to return to passenger traffic levels close to the records set in 2018-19, when it handled more than 30 million passengers. The dynamic should continue in 2025, with the integration of SAS Scandinavian Airlines into Skyteam.

From 15 December, Eurocity Direct trains will link Brussels to Amsterdam. The trains will operate at regular intervals, with a journey time of 2h07, close to that of the Eurostar.

The return to business of the Waldorf Astoria in New York, the transformation of the Hilton Athens into a Conrad hotel, the debut of the Signia MICE brand in Amman: the main openings for the Hilton Group in 2025.

The new barometer published by the ADP group shows a deterioration in waiting times at Paris's main airports, Orly and CDG.

The latent tension in the Middle East is leading to the isolation of the region, with more and more airlines suspending their routes. In Beirut and Tel Aviv, only the national airlines continue to link them to the rest of the world.

How far can airlines go to generate new revenue? Nothing seems impossible these days, as the latest offer from Austrian national carrier Austrian Airlines to its passengers proves...

After Accra, Johannesburg, Lagos and Cape Town, United Airlines will be landing in Dakar and Marrakech, becoming one of the leading American airlines on the African continent.

The Edeis group, which manages 17 French airports including Nîmes and Tours, has signed an agreement with the airline L'Odyssey for the development of European air routes departing from Tours, but above all from Nîmes, the future regional hub. Take-off is scheduled for May 2025.

Mama Shelter is to open a hotel in Amsterdam, in the Noord district, which was once industrial and is now undergoing a major revival. When it opens in 2027, the hotel will offer 150 rooms and meeting spaces.

A haven for visiting celebrities, the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, famous for its legendary ballroom, has reopened after renovation.