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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...

Like other travel sectors such as air and rail, the global hotel industry is gradually returning to levels of activity that, while not reaching those of 2019, are well above those recorded last year. The results recently published by Accor, IHG and Hilton all bear witness to this marked recovery, and there can be no doubt that those published...

Less frequent but longer stays: this is one of the expected developments in post-Covid business travel. What many observers predicted is actually happening. Hotel reservation specialist HRS, among others, has noted this, with long stays of 8 to 13 nights accounting for 39.2 % of bookings for...

In the early days of October, the Mövenpick brand set up shop close to Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, on the Asian side of Istanbul. Situated just one kilometre from the hub, the establishment is a popular stopping-off point for business travellers, and is also close to Technopark Istanbul, a high-tech campus focusing on the defence industry, as well as...

Reserving meeting rooms and bedrooms online in real time will soon be possible on the meetings.accor.com website. Over the next few months, the French group will be rolling out the GroupSync cloud solution developed by Groups360 for group bookings. By the end of...

With the launch of the ALL-VISA payment card, does Accor intend to give itself new ways of getting in touch with its customers? Mehdi Hemici - Our aim is to establish a direct and more frequent relationship with our customers. What could be better than a payment card that is used several times a day?

As well as the workspaces in the hotels, the "Le Bureau des Princes" operation that you are organising this week in the PSG stadium is further proof of the synergies between Wojo and Accor, your shareholder and also sponsor of the Parisian club. Stéphane Bensimon - This is indeed one of the advantages of...

Turkey is definitely in the spotlight for hotel groups. Following the announcement a few days ago that Marriott International was planning to open around ten hotels, most of them in Istanbul, and the recent opening of a Mandarin Oriental, also in the Turkish capital, it is now Accor's turn to unveil plans to bring its offering in the country to 57...

It's not quite the loft spirit they're used to in coworking spaces. The atmosphere is more sporting. Mobile professionals who are football fans will soon be able to work in the stands of the Parc des Princes. Not that Paris Saint Germain's famous stadium has any intention of...

Obviously, it was difficult to do worse. The second quarter of 2020, ravaged by the effects of the pandemic, including lockdowns and travel restrictions, saw the results of hotel groups plummet to abysmal levels. So it comes as no surprise to see this year's revenue per room - RevPAR, an indicator of...

Executives are moving away from the city to the provinces: this phenomenon, which is the result of both repeated confinements and the widespread development of teleworking, is not confined to Paris. Many people in the UK have also left London and other major cities for a less urban atmosphere. The coasts of...