Business travel

The Hoxton and Anantara today, yesterday lyf, voco or DoubleTree, Hampton by Hilton soon: new hotels galore in Vienna.

By acquiring a majority stake in the Sydell group, Hilton will roll out a new luxury and lifestyle brand, NoMad, further strengthening its offering in this segment.

Research site Cybernews.com has analysed the applications of 14 airlines. With worrying results, according to the site.

Immersive platform, machine for generating innovative event experiences: the Radisson group is banking on AI for its MICE offering.

Mama Shelter is bringing its lifestyle spirit to the Côte d'Azur with a hotel in Nice, due to open in June. On the programme: rooftop, swimming pool and meeting rooms.

Korean Air passengers on international routes will in future be travelling on Airbus A350s. The airline has ordered 33 of these aircraft.

The Radisson group is accelerating its growth in Africa and the Middle East, with a presence in Morocco set to be doubled, new hotels in Nigeria, and the start of operations in Gambia and Pakistan.

With its first trains due this year, the Railcoop cooperative has gone into liquidation due to difficulties in finding new capital to pay off its debts.

Vueling continues to eliminate routes from Orly under pressure from the competition. The low-cost airline is now offering only 32 destinations this summer, compared with more than 50 by 2022.

Toulouse airport has seen easyJet set off for two new top business destinations in Europe.

Any resemblance to real events is far from coincidental. Planes that are too heavy, trains that are too wide, disaster seminars, stations or airports with no passengers: we take a deep dive into all these mishaps in the world of travel.

Marco Caposciutti, Chairman of Trenitalia France, outlines the Italian company's objectives for its new Pro offer, growth drive and Paris-Geneva route.

Since January 2023, the ADP Group and the Direction de la Police aux Frontières (Border Police) have been using instruments to measure waiting times at border control points. The results for 2023 have just been made public. And they are not as bad as some might think!

Air France-KLM is inaugurating a new Air&Rail terminal at Brussels-Midi station for passengers departing from Amsterdam Schiphol and Paris CDG.

With a new Novotel near the railway station and another in the pipeline in the HafenCity district alongside an ibis Styles, Accor is strengthening its offering in Hamburg.

Business travellers taking the train to Germany can breathe a sigh of relief. An agreement between Deutsche Bahn and the drivers' union has put an end to strikes, at least for two years...

Austrian Airlines staff will be on strike for 36 hours on 28 and 29 March. Some 400 flights will be cancelled.

Recent problems with certain United Airlines aircraft have prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to step up its surveillance of the company.

Ennismore is continuing to develop lifestyle establishments in Dubai with the future Delano hotel, pending Mama Shelter and other projects.

Business travellers, customers of the Italian airline between Paris and Lyon, can now benefit from special fares with the Serenità Pro offer as well as a dedicated portal to manage their bookings.