Accor

With 350 new addresses announced for the coming year, the Accor group will continue to grow around the world, thanks in part to its luxury brands. While 2026 will be marked by the inauguration in June of the world's largest sailing yacht, the Orient Express Corinthian, for the first exclusive cruise in the Mediterranean,...

His metamorphosis was announced. It is now a reality. The Sofitel New York, flagship of the Sofitel brand on the other side of the Atlantic, has just completed a long transformation phase, with Art Deco as the common thread linking New York and Paris, the main inspiration for the new decor provided by the HBA San Francisco design studio. Or when the art of living in...

Adagio has taken a major step forward in France. The European leader in aparthotels is to add nine establishments to its network in France in one fell swoop, through a strategic partnership with Sergic. Adagio will be taking over the management of tourist residences developed by this property services group as part of the revitalisation of the French...

In Deauville as in Budapest, the You hotels embody a current trend in urban and hybrid hospitality. The hotels are designed as places to live, with a mix of top-of-the-range rooms and shared dormitories, as well as a friendly bar and restaurant, a coworking space, a cinema and a...

A new generation of mountain hotels. Already renowned for breaking the codes of the urban hotel industry, Mama Shelter will be donning its Moon Boots to spread its offbeat spirit up there, way up there, in Val Thorens, Europe's highest ski resort. By autumn 2027, Accor's lifestyle brand, through its subsidiary Ennismore, will have...

Starting afresh. The reopening early next year of the Delano Miami Beach symbolises a new dynamic for the luxury and lifestyle brand, which will become part of the Accor group as part of the takeover of the American group SBE at the end of 2020. A flagship destination on South Beach since its opening in 1947, the hotel was revamped in the 1990s...

Give back to your city what it has given you. After rehabilitating the old port of Genoa to mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America by another famous Genoese, Christopher Columbus, in 1992, architect Renzo Piano is continuing to redesign the seafront of his native city through a...

Modified on 5 September at 11am The Accor group is unifying its range of subscriptions around a new global platform called ALL Accor+. Bringing together all the formulas, particularly those linked to the Asian and South American markets, this overhaul is based on four new options aimed at frequent travellers, particularly business travellers. Key subscribers for these cards, which offer discounts...

"We never imagined that the brand would travel so far". When he opened the first Mama Shelter in Paris in 2008, Serge Trigano, the co-founder of the brand, probably never imagined that his lifestyle and offbeat brand would expand to such an extent. Twenty or so hotels later - as well as becoming part of the...

Lifestyle hotels: a buoyant segment in the eyes of travellers... but also investors? Accor could one day prove the point by listing its nugget Ennismore, the parent company of brands such as Mama Shelter, The Hoxton, 25Hours and Mondrian, as well as the hotel chain..., on the New York stock exchange.

A landing at Budapest airport, a new hotel in Pantin near Paris, a first establishment in Krakow, Poland: in recent months, the Tribe brand has been spreading its contemporary spirit in several major European destinations. Design, a "top-of-the-range style at a fair price", entertainment concentrated in...

Business is still buoyant, with results boosted by the lifestyle and luxury segment, but revenues have been penalised by sharp fluctuations in the US and Australian dollars and the Brazilian real in particular: the Accor group's first-half performance is showing good momentum "despite a complex geopolitical context and the impact...

Nearly 3,000 rooms. The Accor group has just found its largest establishment in the world, in a city where mega hotels are the norm: Las Vegas. Its Handwritten Collection brand will soon be operating, through a franchise agreement, the Treasure Island - TI Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, for its second...

Even before making its Asian debut in Singapore next September, Mama Shelter is looking to the Orient with a second address in mind. By 2029, the lifestyle brand will be bringing its fun, offbeat spirit to Bangkok. For what will be one of the biggest, if not the biggest hotel in the...

After Brittany and the Liziec estate near Vannes, opened at the end of last year, the MGallery Collection of hotels is heading further south along the Atlantic coast this summer, to the Basque Country. The Accor Group's intimate luxury brand has just set up shop in Biarritz, just a stone's throw from the ocean and...

Finding a parking space could not be easier for the Galia Group. Not for its employees, but for its hotels. Having recently transformed a car park and an office building into a five-star hotel - La Fondation - in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, this family-owned property group is now applying the same recipe...

A lifestyle renaissance. For its debut in Switzerland this summer, Mama Shelter is picking up the thread of the history of one of Zürich's flagship establishments, the former Swissôtel. Originally known as Hôtel International in 1972, it took on the name of this essentially Swiss brand in 1980, when its owner at the time, Swissair, changed its name to Swissôtel.

The Hoxton hotel has just opened in Edinburgh. Located in the West End, the hotel comprises a collection of 11 Georgian-style houses on either side of Grosvenor Street. Their originality is reflected in a proposal for several self-contained three-bedroom houses, each with its own...

Being the leader in your own country always leaves room for improvement. Accor demonstrated this in the first half of the year with the opening of more than twenty new hotels in France, providing more than 1,700 new rooms. "France continues to offer a wealth of development opportunities for the Group, as demonstrated by this extremely buoyant first half of the year.

The Accor group will soon be adding a new brand in Egypt. The lifestyle brand 25Hours, part of the lifestyle hotel joint venture Ennismore, will make its debut in Cairo in a few years' time, within a new business complex in the immediate vicinity of the Mall of Egypt. Developed by Dubai-based specialist Majid Al Futtaim, the...