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Marriott International has remained firmly attached to its position as the world's leading group, acquired since the takeover of Starwood in 2016. With one and a half million rooms at the end of last year, and still growing, the American hotelier is well ahead of Hilton and China's Jin Jiang, the other two groups with one million rooms in...

The Hoxton hotels are doing their bit to encourage sustainable travel. With the environmental impact of rail travel well established, the upmarket brand from Ennismore, Accor's lifestyle hotel subsidiary, is launching The Good Rate. They are offering their customers discounts of 20 euros, pounds or dollars, so that they can travel more...

Just launched in Berlin, the lifestyle brand The Hoxton is also taking to the skies of Brussels, having recently set up shop on the 22 floors of the former IBM headquarters. A Brutalist-style office tower revisited as a hotel, The Hoxton's regular design studio, AIME Studios, plays on the seventies atmosphere and the volumes of the building to...

The Mondrian brand is set to almost triple its number of hotels by 2025. With eight hotels around the world - in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, London, Doha and Seoul, as well as Cannes and Mexico City - this top-of-the-range lifestyle brand is looking forward to fourteen more. Taken over by Accor in...

After Rennes last March - and before Nice in 2024 - Mama Shelter is continuing its expansion in France's major provincial cities, with an opening announced for Dijon in July. Already present in Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse, the lifestyle brand launched by the Trigano family and now part of the Mama Shelter network, has...

The Hoxton lifestyle brand is officially entering Germany with its first hotel in Berlin. Located in West Berlin's Charlottenburg district, the hotel reflects the golden age of 1920s Berlin in its own way. Art Nouveau spirit in the rooms, Art Deco lighting, vintage furniture, Bauhaus works of art, murals inspired by...

Hotel groups have been putting Mexico at the top of their list of priorities recently. Marriott, in particular, has just taken a major step forward by finalising the acquisition of Hoteles City Express, one of the leading local players in the mid-range hotel sector. Announced at the end of last year, the deal gives Marriott a...

Swissôtel has returned to its flagship hotel in Beijing, one of the doyens of international chain hotels in the Chinese capital. Opened in 1991, the Swissôtel Beijing Hong Kong Macau Center was also one of the key establishments during the 2008 Olympic Games for welcoming officials and the media. And this...

Stress or burn out, obesity and diabetes: the ravages of an active, sedentary lifestyle take their toll on both physical and mental well-being. In study after study, the WHO has noted the damaging effects of physical inactivity, while public authorities have been extolling the virtues of sport for health for many years. A message that was received well before the pandemic...

For France's leading apartment hotels, the time has come for segmentation. Both Appart'City and Adagio have redesigned the architecture of their offer around three clearly identified ranges, positioned respectively in the budget, mid-range and top-of-the-range segments. While Adagio Access remains the entry-level range for the subsidiary...

Delano, Mondrian: both of these brands play on the aura of their original hotels, pioneers in the 1990s of what was not yet called the lifestyle hotel industry. The Delano, in Miami South Beach, and the Mondrian, in West Hollywood near Los Angles, were two urban resorts that bore the...

The long-awaited possibility of easily organising small meetings online is no longer so far away. The Radisson group has recently enhanced its meetings offering with the launch of a real-time booking platform. Called Book it easy, this solution is designed to simplify the lives of organisers by offering them a fast and simple process...

Accor has overhauled its range of frequent flyer cards, which previously included the Business Plus, ibis Business and Accor Plus cards for the Asia-Pacific region. All these cards will be replaced by new ones, whose names will be linked to the ALL - Accor Live Limitless loyalty programme. The...

The Jo&Joe brand is formalising practices that have become commonplace in its establishments, namely the use of their spaces for team meetings, mobile working and even team building breaks. Reinventing the youth hostel of yesteryear as a lifestyle destination, the brand created by Accor more than five years ago has won over customers...

Its acquisition last year by Kasada, Accor's preferred partner for its expansion in sub-Saharan Africa, was the first step in this direction. The Cape Grace, one of Cape Town's leading hotels, will become a fully-fledged Fairmont property by the end of the year. "We couldn't think of a more iconic hotel than...

The budget brand Ibis Styles has made its debut in Scandinavia with its first hotel in Copenhagen. The Accor Group brand has set up close to the centre of the Danish capital, in the predominantly sustainable Ørestad business district. Just a 15-minute metro ride from the central station, the hotel is located in the...

Cannes, as well as soon seeing the reappearance of one of the jewels in its hotel crown - the Carlton - under the ultra-luxury Regent banner, owned by the IHG group, will be the first to welcome the debut of the Mondrian brand. Expecting its first guests on 10 March, the Mondrian Cannes will mark the arrival in France of this chic, contemporary chain from Ennismore,...

Hotels in Europe's major metropolises, led by Paris and London, are seeing a resurgence in customer numbers; the domestic market in the USA is as buoyant as ever; a major event - the World Cup in Qatar - is driving the entire hotel industry in the Middle East; and there is a general upturn in the Asia-Pacific region, with the exception of China: all these factors...

Business travellers who pass through Lyon Part-Dieu on a regular basis have been able to watch this new skyscraper, the Tour To-Lyon, rise gradually, almost right up against the station. Designed by architect Dominique Perrault, the 170-metre-high, 43-storey tower is a new focal point for the city. Overlooking the railway hub, it is...

Europe of course, the Americas with a hotel in Los Angeles, soon the Asian continent and the Middle East with an opening expected at the end of the year in Dubai... The only territory left for Mama Shelter to explore was Africa. This should be a reality by 2024, with a project recently announced in the main...