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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...

It will undoubtedly be some time before business travellers can enjoy the luxury of the new Mandarin Oriental, which opens in Shenzhen on 20 January, as business travel in China is still complex. Nevertheless, the luxury group has made the journey from its headquarters in Hong Kong...

The Accor group is strengthening its offering in Kazakhstan with the unveiling of an ibis hotel in Almaty, ahead of the opening in the first quarter of 2022 of a Novotel Living within the same complex. This dual-brand project revisits one of the country's oldest hotels, the Jetisu, which has been extensively rebuilt and redesigned to accommodate both a...

Greet, the Accor group's eco-friendly and economical brand, is continuing to expand in France. Since its launch in 2019, it has already opened five establishments, first in Beaune, then in Marseille Centre Saint-Charles, Marseille Provence Aéroport, Lyon Confluence and Bordeaux Aéroport. And four establishments have recently joined it. Hotels which...

It's not just night trains in France and Europe that are attracting renewed interest. Two luxury train projects have just been unveiled in quick succession. The first, in France, comes from the Puy du Fou, which in summer 2023 will be launching the Grand Tour, a 4,000-mile rail journey...

"I promise you luxury and charm": If Winston Churchill were still with us, he might paraphrase his famous speech at the dawn of the Second World War to evoke the future Raffles under preparation in London. A luxury hotel intimately linked to great history, as it will take its place within the walls of…

Accor will be offering two hotels in Conakry by 2024, under the Novotel brand and its long-stay variant Novotel Living. Until now, the French group, one of the leading hotel groups in Africa, has not yet had a presence in the Republic of Guinea, and will therefore be adding a new destination on the continent. "This project marks not only the introduction of the...

With their "home-from-home" accommodation and flats with fully-equipped kitchens, urban residences are ideally suited to changing working patterns. Not just to the trend towards longer stays, but also to the needs of teleworkers who have moved away from the big cities and need to return...

Accor has just added a new brand to its already extensive portfolio: the Emblems Collection. Through this brand, the French group intends to strengthen its luxury segment by playing on a buoyant niche: collections of independent hotels. The formula is now well-established in the hotel world, and promises owners of independent...

Like other hotel groups, Accor has made no secret of its desire to expand its residential accommodation offering. To this end, the French group is preparing to move into the territory of two major players in the long-stay hotel sector, Ascott and Frasers Hospitality, by setting up in Singapore. By the end of the year, Accor will have...

For its new address in a business destination as popular as Shanghai, the Accor group has opted for a strategic location, in keeping with the brand's high standards. And so it is in the North Bund district - with an uninterrupted view of the famous banks of the Huangpu River - that the hotel will be inaugurated in...