Business travel

With a new hotel opening at Tokyo Haneda airport and other hotels in the pipeline in Bangkok, Amritsar, Japan and China, the Mercure brand continues to make headway in Asia.

The dedicated Train + Air intermodal service will cover new routes to improve links between Air France and SNCF services. United, Lufthansa and Deutsche Bahn are doing the same on the transatlantic route, under the Star Alliance umbrella.

Featuring a large conference centre, the Dolce by Wyndham Versailles will take up residence in March 2024 on the historic Domaine de Montcel, which was once home to the Fondation Cartier.

What if the Grand Paris Express included a line 19 between Nanterre and Gonesse? Valérie Pécresse and the Val d'Oise want to believe in it. Business travellers would be able to reach Paris CDG from La Défense.

A new signature evoking a bleisure positioning for Hyatt Regency, contemporary design for Courtyard by Marriott in Europe: hotel brands are evolving in line with trends.

With two weekly flights between Strasbourg and Berlin, Volotea confirms its leading role for the Alsace metropolis. The airline will also soon be inaugurating a base in Brest.

The partnership between Air France and Etihad is taking shape with the launch of a flight between Nice and Abu Dhabi. The Gulf carrier is also announcing more frequencies to Asia.

The geopolitical tension weighing on Air France's activities in West Africa could stimulate the ambitions of African airlines.

Located close to Nice Côte d'Azur airport, Saint-Augustin SNCF station is to be completely rebuilt to make way for a revolutionary multimodal station.

The Ascott group has just opened two new establishments in Vienna, one a coliving-style lyf residence and the other under the Somerset brand, suitable for long stays.

Horwath HTL analyses the development of the hotel sector in the DACH region, the three countries of the German-speaking world: Austria, Switzerland and, above all, Germany, which is approaching the one million mark in terms of hotel rooms.

With Oh Baby, Serge Trigano intends to apply the recipes that have made Mama Shelter such a success to the budget hotel sector.

Reintegration of the Airbus A380 at Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines, technical modernisation at Emirates: the world's largest aircraft, which was thought to be doomed just 5 years ago, is making a surprising comeback.

The Italian carrier will be increasing its service to five daily return trips between Paris and Lyon from the winter timetable, with two extensions to Chambéry at weekends.

Alongside a new hotel in Montpellier, opposite the station, the Eklo budget and lifestyle chain is further committing itself to a low-carbon path.

While a strike will affect French skies on 20 November, a law will limit the consequences of industrial action in air traffic control.

The introduction of a new online booking platform for Canadian rail operator VIA Rail means that the system will be completely suspended for almost 24 hours from 17 November (Saturday French time).

Competition will intensify in 2024 between Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg trinational airport and Scandinavia with the arrival of Norwegian.

In the regular skirmishes between the airline association IATA and the association of airports worldwide ACI, the latter's European branch provides evidence that airport charges are rising at the same rate as inflation - unlike air fares!

The Regent Hong Kong has been redesigned in an ultra-luxury spirit, returning to its original name and its pre-eminent position in the city's hotel industry.