Accor

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...

While Marriott has just opened its 8,000th hotel in the world - quite a symbol, since this hotel is located right next to the group's future new headquarters in Bethesda, on the outskirts of Washington - the American group remains the world leader in hotels, with almost 1.5 million rooms....

Updated on 8 March 2022. How has business at your sites evolved in recent months? Xavier Desaulles - It's still very volatile, with a rollercoaster ride over the last 18 months, a number of sites closed at the start of last year, reduced activity before picking up again in the summer, and a last quarter that was virtually flat...

The hotel world can only rejoice after two years of severe turbulence linked to a pandemic that spared no region of the world. The cascade of results announced by the sector's leaders for the past year shows that most of them are back in the black. Marriott, the world's leading hotel group with...

Is it its resilience compared to the traditional hotel industry, recently highlighted by the pandemic? Or is it the way it responds to new customer expectations? Or is it the strength of its product, aimed as much at business travellers as at families and groups of friends? It's probably a bit of all of the above...

Mama Shelter has already demonstrated its expertise by opening a hotel next to the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in 2019. For its third establishment in Paris, the brand launched by the Trigano family, and since integrated into the Accor-Ennismore JV, is continuing to...

Car rental company Sixt has joined the number of partners in the ALL - Accor Live Limitless loyalty programme. By reserving a vehicle with Sixt, business travellers who are members of this free membership scheme will be able to earn loyalty points, at the rate of 200 Reward points for every €50 spent, 350 points for every...

In France, as in Paris, 2021 was already a productive year for the hotel industry. If not very active in the capital, due to the prolonged absence of international tourists. Notable openings in Paris include two potential new palaces - Cheval Blanc and Bulgari - and the private hotel-club Soho House,...

Hoteliers have seen it for themselves in recent months: as soon as confinements and other restrictive measures were relaxed, small and medium-sized businesses were the first to return to business travel. This is no doubt why Accor has launched a booking solution specially designed for small and medium-sized businesses.

Continuing its expansion in Europe and around the world, 25hours will be opening a new hotel in Copenhagen in mid-March. This brings to 14 the number of establishments for this lifestyle chain, which was launched in Germany in 2005 and has been an Accor partner since 2016, with the French group owning 50% of its capital and having integrated 25hours into...

Lifestyle, luxury and a host of new destinations: 2022 is shaping up to be another productive year for the Accor group, despite business still being affected by the consequences of the pandemic. "With more than 300 hotels and resorts ready to open this year, our many loyal customers around the world are...