Accor

The greet brand, launched by Accor in 2019 in Beaune, is gradually rolling out its offer in France, particularly near major business hubs. This low-cost brand already has a hotel near St Charles station in Marseille and another near Marseille Provence airport. The brand is also present near...

Already one of the best represented groups in Australia, Accor is set to expand its offering in Melbourne with, among other things, a Mövenpick due to open in May. The brand's second Australian establishment after the one in Hobart, this future top-of-the-range hotel is located at the junction of two of the main thoroughfares in the capital of...

Like other hoteliers, the Radisson group has announced its desire to increase the proportion of its offer aimed at long stays, particularly in Western Europe. This ambition is reflected in the opening of its first top-of-the-range aparthotel in Amsterdam. Located not far from the Amsterdam forest, but above all from the...

The banks of the River Tyne are abuzz with activity: soon Quayside, the area straddling Newcastle and Gateshead, is set to become a leading business hub in the North of England, thanks in particular to a brand new conference centre. And the Accor Group will be making its contribution to the "Newcastle...

MKG Consulting has just published its ranking of the world's top 10 hotel groups, still largely dominated by Marriott International, which has passed the 1.4 million rooms mark. Despite the difficulties encountered by all the hotel groups last year, this top 10 ranking continues to show strong growth momentum, with the number of rooms...

At the end of last year, Accor launched the Apartments & Villas website, dedicated to long-stay hotels. What was the aim? Yassine Hachem - Our main aim with this site was to simplify access to our long-stay accommodation offer, which was already available on the All.Accor.com site, but which we had not yet...

Expedia and Accor are joining forces to expand the UNESCO Commitment to Sustainable Tourism. This initiative, launched by the UN agency in October 2019 with the Thai Ministry of Tourism and, already, Expedia as partners, has so far brought together just over 500 hotels in Thailand. These include the Anantara resorts, the...

Unsurprisingly, the major hotel groups painted a very bleak picture when they presented their preliminary results for the past year. "The global hotel industry has gone through an unprecedented crisis", said Sébastien Bazin, CEO of Accor. "2020 has been the most difficult year in our 93-year history", according to Stéphanie Linnartz, who...

Patrick Mendes has been in charge of Accor's international sales for some time, before taking over as head of the hotel group's operations in Latin America. He is now heading up a new division which, for the first time, brings together the Sales, Distribution, Marketing and Loyalty divisions. As part of his duties, Patrick Mendes also oversees the eight regional hubs recently created by Accor...

It's been in the air for some time. The Accor group has officially presented its new hybrid meeting concept, All Connect, which will be launched next April in partnership with Microsoft. This new offering, which focuses primarily on small meetings with between 8 and 50 physical participants, is based on the observation that these new methods of...

"A symbol of 21st century hospitality in one of the world's finest urban development projects": this is how Sheikh Nawaf bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani, Chairman of Katara Hospitality, described the spectacular Fairmont and Raffles hotel project due to open in Lusail, Qatar, in 2022, just one year before the...

A few days after announcing the opening of a future four-star long-stay establishment in Boulogne-Billancourt, Adagio is unveiling a new project in Saint-Nazaire for its three-star Adagio access brand, with the franchise takeover of an establishment launched in January 2016. The Aparthotel Adagio access Saint-Nazaire is due to open in May 2021, and for the occasion its 80 flats will be...

It's no secret, given the multitude of recent announcements: Accor has made lifestyle and the very high end of the market the spearheads of its development. This strategy is being deployed around the world, but is also taking shape in Paris, where, paradoxically, the French group's luxury offering is...

In the wake of the pandemic, contactless technology has become de rigueur at every stage of the traveller's journey. With this in mind, Accor is announcing the roll-out of the "Accor Key" digital key in all its hotels. By downloading the dedicated application onto their smartphone, travellers will be able to receive their hotel key on arrival.

Accor is strengthening its lifestyle positioning with the signing of a partnership with an innovative new brand, Faena. A few weeks after announcing its alliance with Ennismore, designed to create the world's largest operator of this trendy offering, the French hotelier is forging closer ties with a player renowned for its concept combining artistic spaces, residences and...

Accor has added a fourth Pullman to its offering in the United Arab Emirates following those in Dubai Deira Creek City Centre, Dubai Jumeirah Lakes Towers and Sharjah. Located in Business Bay, one of the emirate's main business districts, the Pullman Dubai Downtown is close to the Dubai International Financial Centre and the...

Already announced in Melbourne, 25hours is doubling down on the Australian market with the arrival of a new address in Sydney. This 105-room hotel is expected to open on Oxford Street by the end of next year. It will occupy a former theatre, inaugurated more than a century ago. In keeping with its lifestyle positioning, 25hours is set to offer a...

New Sofitels in Seoul, Hangzhou and Adelaide, the Fairmont brand expected in Los Angeles, Seoul and near Dublin, the Mondrian lifestyle brand being set up in London: 2021 will be a year of new luxury and lifestyle hotels for the Accor group. "Despite the delays and temporary closures we have experienced...

Launched in 2019 in Beaune by the Accor group, the Greet brand has just rolled out its sustainable, designer concept in Lyon. Following openings in Marseille Centre Saint Charles and Marseille Provence Aéroport, the budget brand has set up shop in another key thoroughfare for business travellers, just two minutes...

The Accor group has just made official the Russian ambitions of the Raffles brand. The brand is preparing to make its big debut in Russia, with the opening of the Raffles Moscow hotel, scheduled for the second half of 2022. The new luxury hotel will be located right in the heart of the capital, next to the Kremlin - with its...