Accor

Almost as fast as a Novak Djokovic serve or a Rafael Nadal passing shot. No sooner had Wojo announced an ephemeral coworking space at Roland Garros, during the tournament's qualifying rounds, than it was booked up in a matter of hours. In partnership with the tournament organisers and the ALL loyalty programme, Wojo has set up a...

Lifestyle hotels seem to be finding an increasingly natural place in the La Défense business district. CitizenM was a forerunner, setting up in 2017 near the Grande Arche and La Défense Arena, and will soon be joined, in mid-June, by an Okko hotel. At the other end of the district, towards...

Business travellers to Central Asia will find a number of new places to stay as they wander around. Among them, a Novotel Living establishment has just opened its doors in Almaty. Its opening had been announced since the end of last year, with the opening of an ibis Almaty Jetisu in the former capital of...

Accor and its lifestyle hotel subsidiary Ennismore have signed their joint entry into the Amsterdam-Noord district with the opening of a Mercure hotel and a Tribe, a new brand whose lifestyle spirit is in line with the evolution of the northern part of the Dutch capital. Long occupied by the NDSM shipyards, this district, separated from the city centre...

As the Queen of England celebrates her platinum jubilee in a few weeks' time, one of the former jewels in the British crown, the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, is preparing to open a new chapter in her history. Retired from cruising in 2008 and moored since then in Dubai's Rashid Port, the prestigious ship has been...

The results for the first quarter of 2022 presented by Accor confirm the relatively limited effect of the Omicron variant on the recovery in hotel activity seen since last summer. Like most players in the sector, the French group has seen a steady recovery in revenue per room (RevPAR) since the second quarter of 2021. And the damage caused...

With long-haul travel still at half-mast and business travel at a moderato tempo, the Pullman Paris Montparnasse would no doubt have been satisfied with a more favourable context for its return to business. However, the management of this 900-room hotel, which caters for international customers and corporate events, doesn't seem to be...

After the Parc des Princes at the end of the summer of 2021, Wojo is moving into a new sporting mecca by setting up a temporary coworking centre at Roland-Garros from Monday 16 to Friday 20 May 2022, during the qualifying rounds of the prestigious Grand Slam tournament. To carry out this operation, the workspace specialist...

Accor is expanding the range of experiences available to members of its ALL-Accor Live Limitless loyalty programme. Through a partnership with the digital platform Fever, which specialises in entertainment and leisure, the hotel group's loyal customers will be able to redeem their points - or pay for them by credit card - to book a...

European business travellers will be able to discover the lifestyle and luxury spirit of the SLS brand from the second half of 2024. Originally launched by the American group SBE, and integrated since its acquisition by the Accor group into the Ennismore joint venture, focused on the development of contemporary brands, SLS has found its first point of call...

The Accor group has been keeping a low profile in this part of north-east Paris, but on 5 April it celebrated the opening of Novotel Paris 20 Belleville. "The Belleville district is a new one for Accor, as this is the first time we have opened a hotel in the area, yet the Accor group already has 400 hotels in the Paris region, 200 in...

The worldwide top 10 presented by the MKG Group confirms the hierarchy presented by Voyages d'Affaires last March. Marriott remains by far the world's leading group, the American hotel company having recorded growth of +4% in 2021. This represents growth in line with that of previous years, of +3.1% in 2020...

Updated on 31 March After topping the 300-hotel mark in France in spring 2021 - with the opening of a new establishment in the Bassins à Flot district of Bordeaux - B&B Hotels is preparing to make a major leap forward in France. The budget brand will be welcoming no fewer than...

The Accor group is strengthening its presence in the Balkans with an MGallery already open in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second city, and a Mövenpick planned for this summer in Zagreb. To make its entry into the Croatian capital, the top-of-the-range brand has found a location in line with its positioning, which is focused on the...

In view of the results recently announced by your Group, do you feel that the worst of the crisis is now behind you? Markus Keller - We are confident that the recovery is here. We're still anticipating a tighter monitoring of our business over the next six or twelve months, so we're keeping a close eye on things...

In what ways is the approach to hotel catering by a major group like Accor changing? Ian di Tullio - We're in the process of breaking the mould. For a long time, we created 'hotel restaurants', essentially aimed at the resident clientele. I think this vocabulary needs to disappear. The idea of harmonising...

Updated on 18 March "Ukraine will win". On 2 March, Ukraine's largest hotel group, Reikartz Hotel, clearly showed its support for the Russian invasion. With around sixty hotels in Kiev and some thirty towns across the country, the hotel group is bearing the full brunt of the war ravaging its country, having announced as early as...

Far from it, the health crisis has not dampened the growth prospects of the major hotel groups. Accor is demonstrating this with 288 hotels opened last year, providing 41,000 new rooms. This means net growth of 3 % in 2021, taking the French group's network to more than 5,300 hotels and 778,000 rooms, putting it in a good position to...

After Rome last year, The Hoxton is continuing its expansion in Southern Europe with a hotel due to open next spring in Barcelona, in the Poblenou district, in the image of this lifestyle brand. Scheduled to open its doors on 25 April, the hotel will have 240 rooms reflecting the softness of the Mediterranean with their...

The veil is beginning to be lifted on the future lifestyle hotel So/Paris, part of the Morland Mixité Capitale project. Developed by Emerige, one of the major players in the Paris of tomorrow, the complex aims to renovate the Cité administrative on Boulevard Morland. Designed in the early 1960s by...