Business travel

According to IATA, the recovery in air transport continued throughout 2023. Total international traffic reached 88.6% of its 2019 level, a worse result than domestic traffic, which was 3.9% higher than in 2019.

A study carried out by Coach Omnium among 621 French and European customers analyses the expectations and habits of travellers in their hotel rooms.

From New York to Buenos Aires, from Toronto to Sao Paulo, the great business cities of the American continent are expecting new hotels in 2024. A selection of the top 24.

After Proust, Flaubert and Jules Verne, the Société des Hôtels Littéraires is opening a new chapter in its history with a hotel based on the works of Stendhal in Nancy.

A Voco close to Ericson's headquarters in Stockholm, a Holiday Inn next to Budapest's stadium and congress centre, and a number of hotels to come in the UK: IHG has announced a number of new developments.

SkyTeam has just unveiled the most successful MICE destinations in 2023 according to its Global Meetings programme. It has also released its first trends for 2024...

Requesting a late check-out via WhatsApp, ordering a drink by text message: this service will be available to all Hilton Group hotels worldwide by the end of 2024.

Linked to the Palau de Congresos de Catalunya, the Gran Melia Torre Melina is giving a new lease of life to one of Barcelona's leading business hotels, the former Rey Juan Carlos I.

With the Deutsche Bahn strike barely over, the Verdi transport union is calling for staff to strike on 1 February at airports and on some public transport services.

The signing of an agreement between the Qatari and Madagascan authorities for the launch of air services between the two countries is set to result in the rapid introduction of a daily Doha-Antananarivo flight. Such a flight would reshuffle the cards in terms of air connectivity in the region, including neighbouring Reunion Island.

With 8.1 million passengers in 2023, Basel-Mulhouse international airport is 11% down on the record set in 2019. It could possibly surpass this performance in 2025.

The majority of flights operated by Finnair will be cancelled due to strike action starting on Thursday in Finland.

After its design-led budget hotels, Motel One is now tackling lifestyle and upmarket accommodation with The Cloud One. A dozen hotels are expected by 2026.

For Marcel Riwalsky, the 'brains' behind the Aviation-Event conferences, the general public is more interested in the evolution of supply and prices than in the environment. He also stresses the importance of Central Europe for world aviation.

Ultra-luxury and lifestyle, new architectural icons: Dubai will continue to see the emergence of new flagship hotels in 2024.

Frontier Airlines is set to challenge the monopolies on hubs-to-hubs routes, competing with American Airlines, Delta and United on their turf.

Now merged with Thalys, Eurostar will have carried almost 19 million passengers in 2023, an increase of 22% compared with 2022.

Turkish Airlines will be operating its first flights to Australia on 15 March, with 3 weekly frequencies.

Trenitalia has entered into a partnership with valet parking service Ector to simplify the arrival of business travellers at Paris and Lyon stations.

The Lufthansa Group is to equip all its Airbus A220, A319/320/321 aircraft with wifi from the end of 2024. The free messaging service will then be available on Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines and, for the first time, Swiss.