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A building in the shape of intersecting scimitars, luxurious rooms, a contemporary aesthetic with Middle Eastern influences: the Raffles and Fairmont Doha, housed in the Katara Towers, will leave their legacy long after the World Cup that has just begun in Qatar. Probably much more so, in fact, than all the stadiums built for...

After developing its luxury offer through acquisitions - Kimpton, Six Senses, Regent - in recent years, the IHG group is strengthening its position in another fast-growing market segment, the all-inclusive hotel sector. To expand its footprint in this segment, the British group has not proceeded with a takeover as in the past, but rather with a...

Wojo has teamed up with Mama Shelter to develop the hotel chain's coworking brand, Mama Works. The flexible workspace specialist now has a brand licence to roll out Mama Works in France and Europe, including the UK. It's a logical move, given that the two brands have been...

Mama Shelter's expansion in France will continue over the coming months. From its current eight hotels, the brand created by Serge Trigano and now owned by Accor should have eleven by summer 2024. Recently, the lifestyle brand gave a number of details about its arrival in Rennes next March, with a 119-room hotel...

Updated on 9 November at 9am. Hotel groups are making no secret of their ambitions in Africa. The Africa Hotel Investment Forum held at the Fairmont Taghazout Bay - a seaside resort north of Agadir in Morocco where Hilton has just opened a new resort - gave them the opportunity to prove it...

Both the major hotel groups and the main airlines can be delighted with the results presented for the third quarter of the year. The period was buoyed by leisure customers, and in particular the welcome upturn in long-haul travel, but also by a traditionally busy September for business travellers. The Accor group explains...

The Mama Shelter brand's expansion into French provincial cities has been in the pipeline since the announcement at the end of last year of new hotels in Nice, Dijon and Rennes. Among these destinations, Brittany is set to launch this salvo of openings by welcoming, from March 2023, the ninth hotel in the lifestyle brand created...

A luxurious vestige of Europe's railway past, the Orient Express is in the process of inventing a new future for itself. This revival has been in the making since Accor took over this legendary brand in 2017, with the hotel group planning to extend it through the development of prestige hotels and the operation of a new generation of luxury trains....

While Ennismore, Accor's lifestyle hotel subsidiary, has just passed the 100-establishment mark with the opening of the SO/Paris, its brand The Hoxton is already preparing new developments. Seven new hotels are due to open in Europe between now and the beginning of 2024, adding to its network in the major business cities, whether...

Accor has just launched, with the Women's Foundation, a booking platform dedicated to women victims of violence. Your group has also announced its intention to eliminate single-use plastics by the end of the year and, in the longer term, to achieve zero net emissions by 2050. Accor's commitment to...

Hospitality means knowing how to welcome and care for people", says Sébastien Bazin, CEO of Accor. We wouldn't be doing our job properly if we didn't take care of those in distress". As part of the social aspect of its CSR policy, the French hotel operator is joining forces with the Women's Foundation to offer a...

More than 13,000 m2, nearly 1,600 workstations, 41 meeting rooms and a myriad of phone boxes for discreet telephone conversations: the new Wojo Montparnasse is one of the largest shared workspaces in France. Open since 26 September, the new Wojo Montparnasse is the...

After Liverpool, where Novotel recently opened one of its new flagship establishments, the Accor group brand has just added another flagship hotel in Mexico City. In keeping with the contemporary evolution of the brand, the hotel features a design by Sundokovy Sisters and local studio Sello N. The combination of...

This hundredth hotel symbolises the links between lifestyle hotelier Ennismore and its main shareholder, Accor. It was in Paris, on the banks of the Seine, that its subsidiary dedicated to developing contemporary hotels passed the 100-establishment mark with the unveiling of SO/Paris at the beginning of September. Part of the project to transform the...

Security is undoubtedly one of the main criteria of choice for business travellers to Africa. With this in mind, eight Accor Group establishments, all owned by the Kasada investment fund, have just announced that they have obtained Safehotels certification, one of the world's leading hotel safety and security certifications. "The...

Accor has opened its 400th hotel in the Australia-Pacific region with the launch of The Porter House in Sydney, as part of the MGallery collection. This strategic milestone consolidates the French hotel chain's position as leader in the region. It also demonstrates its pre-eminent role in the world of 'down under' travel, symbolised by the...

As Japan reopens its borders to a wider audience, business travellers to Osaka will find a new Mercure hotel from December. To add a fifth hotel in Japan's second-largest city, Accor has teamed up with Japanese hotelier Tokyu Resorts & Stay to create a new Mercure...

In its European growth strategy, which recently included Rome and Barcelona and will soon include Brussels and Berlin, The Hoxton is not forgetting its home city of London. The lifestyle brand, associated with the Accor group in the Ennismore joint venture, will be opening a fourth address in the British capital from the beginning of December...

Over half of business travellers (90%) feel that the hotel industry does not fully meet their needs. A figure that is far from insignificant for the leaders in the accommodation sector, but which could be improved by paying more attention to the expectations... of female business travellers. Since they are the ones we are talking about, and the ones who...

Accor, which has a strong presence in Germany, is strengthening its offering in the country with the opening of two new hotels in Münster: a Novotel and an Ibis Budget next door to each other. Known for its student life, historical heritage and widespread cycling, this city in the north-west of the country is also, like many German cities, a major tourist destination.