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"Standardisation is over": Sebastien Bazin, CEO of AccorHotels, is sounding the death knell for the efficient, streamlined budget hotels that were the norm for many decades. Personalised establishments that are open to the outside world, a welcome that is both mobile and friendly, lobbies that have been transformed into living spaces: the ibis brand aims to meet new expectations...

AccorHotels has just unveiled its first Orient Express hotel project since the hotel group and SNCF entered into a partnership in 2017 to develop this new prestige brand. And, coincidentally, this comes just a few days after LVMH announced that it was buying Belmond, the former Orient Express group which...

Spacious, colourful, stylish and packed with technical solutions and technological innovations, this Smart Room was designed in partnership with designer Didier Versavel, and after consultation with Group employees with disabilities. Particular attention was paid to the bathroom, where everything is adjustable, from the shower head to the...

True to its strategy of acquisition and diversification, AccorHotels has made a new acquisition: the hotel group has set its sights on the 21c Museum Hotels brand. This company, which appeared in 2006, has developed a promising concept of all-in-one complexes combining a boutique hotel, a trendy restaurant and a contemporary art museum. AccorHotels is positioning itself in the...

The project did not make it past the summer... Since the beginning of June, AccorHotels had been looking at Air France KLM. The French hotelier had even expressed its interest in a very official way, by way of a press release. Since then, the airline group has not really moved out of the...

And another strategic partnership for AccorHotels. Following on from Mantis recently in Africa, 25 Hours and Mama Shelter in Europe, Rixos in Turkey and the Middle East and Banyan Tree in Asia-Pacific, the French group has now acquired a stake - worth 50 % of the shares - in a group positioned in the...

Could AccorHotels become a shareholder in Air France-KLM instead of the French state? The hotel group announced on Sunday evening its interest in taking over the 14.3 % stake in the airline. This would make AccorHotels the largest shareholder, ahead of Delta Air Lines and China Eastern, which took a stake in Air France-KLM last year and both hold 8.8 % of the airline's...

Stars of the digital world - Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Satay Nadella (Microsoft), Gini Rometty (IBM), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber) -, welcoming Pepper robots and a myriad of start-ups involved in artificial intelligence or connected objects: organised for the third time at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre by Publicis and Les Echos, this...

Ector is aiming to win over business travellers with a new partnership. On 6 May, the digital valet company joined forces with AccorHotels to offer its services to the chain's customers. More specifically, this package of offers is aimed at Club Accor members. Members of the loyalty programme will earn points for each order...

AccorHotels has signed a partnership agreement with Cvent, the market leader in corporate event management, to deploy its Passkey web-based solution for managing event accommodation. Used by numerous establishments in the United States, as well as in Europe, including the Dolce Chantilly, this solution enables organisers to create a mini-site dedicated to their...

The shopping spree continues at AccorHotels. Following the acquisition of Moevenpick and the strategic partnership with South Africa's Mantis last month, and a few weeks after receiving the go-ahead from the Australian authorities for the takeover of the Mantra group, the French hotel operator has announced the purchase of the Chilean group Atton Hoteles. For this transaction, AccorHotels has teamed up with...

It had been announced ever since Le Figaro revealed on 25 April that AccorHotels intended to acquire Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts. Now it's official: AccorHotels is to buy the Swiss hotel operator. The French group has reached agreement with its owner, Saudi investor Kingdom Holding, on a price of 560 million Swiss francs, or 482 million euros. Completion of this transaction...

The 7th edition of the Global Meeting Exchange (GME) was held in Montreal at the beginning of March. More than 250 guests converged on the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, whose $140 million (€113.5 million) renovation well deserved the spotlight. The...

Let there be no mistake: AccorHotels is going to be a force to be reckoned with in North America. The hotel group, which made the takeover of Fairmont Raffles official two years ago, naturally has big ambitions across the Atlantic. As a symbol, the latest inauguration of the Fairmont brand took place in Austin on 5 March, marking the arrival of the second largest hotel...

Launched in Mauritius at the end of 2010, the So/ brand is starting to really take off as it sets out to conquer the world's major cities. Sofitel's trendy offshoot has announced several major openings in 2018, enabling the brand to double its presence around the world. After Mauritius, then Bangkok and Singapore...

Unless they take public transport, travellers to Orly will soon find a new hotel to welcome them when they arrive at the airport from the A106 and RN7. AccorHotels has joined forces with the ADP Group to build an ibis Styles at the entrance to the Orlytech business hub. Its façade...

Begun at the end of 2016 with the Stories pilot project, the transformation of Adagio aparthotel lobbies is now taking shape with the roll-out of Le Cercle, a new convivial space with a friendly spirit as its common thread. "We've been offering our customers a practical accommodation solution for ten years now. What we want to do today is...

Mama Shelter will be making its London debut in 2019-2020. Property investor Crosstree has just appointed the brand founded by the Trigano family to manage a recently acquired 178-room establishment in the Shoreditch district. Before being handed over to Mama Shelter, the RE Hotel will embark on a programme of...

The Hipark Design Suites residences will become part of Adagio Aparthotels from 1 February. Launched in 2010, this brand, developed by BNP Paribas Real Estate, the French bank's property subsidiary, offers a top-of-the-range range of accommodation including a number of à la carte services: concierge, business corner, fitness centre, catering and launderette. Located in...

What could be more beautiful than New York, Tokyo or Shanghai seen from above? However, concentrated on their running pace or bent over the elliptical bikes set up in their hotel fitness club, do mobile executives really have time to appreciate the sublime panorama before their eyes? Running. All the time.