Accor

Twenty hotels today, with forty more in the pipeline: the Tribe brand is beginning to make its mark on the hotel landscape. Launched by the Accor group in 2019, based on a first hotel in Australia, in Perth, it has come a long way since then, being present in Paris and Lyon as well as in Budapest, London,...

One of Europe's leading hotel investment companies, Covivio currently owns 311 hotels with assets worth €6.4 billion. Located mainly in France, the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as in Southern Europe and the Benelux countries, these hotels are operated by major hotel groups through leases - in 62% of cases - or...

The Accor group has strengthened its presence in Côte d'Ivoire with the inauguration within a few months of each other of two establishments in the same location in Abidjan. After an Adagio Original urban residence with 110 studios and flats, the complex was completed in November with the unveiling of the Novotel Abidjan Marcory, the whole being brought together by a...

Its slender silhouette, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, soars high into the Belgrade sky, in a district undergoing major transformation at the confluence of the Save and Danube rivers. Symbolising the Serbian capital's ambitions as the business hub of the Balkans, the Kula Belgrade skyscraper is designed to offer luxurious hospitality...

Responding to the bleisure trend, to "Blended Travel": with its Transforming Room concept, the Pullman brand is exploring the needs of tomorrow's business travellers. And today too. Installed in the Pullman Singapore Orchard, this room concept is the fruit of two years of research into customer behaviour, particularly business behaviour, and the...

One face-to-face meeting is worth three visios, two face-to-face meetings are worth six visios, three face-to-face meetings are worth... In order to assess the benefits of a physical meeting rather than a remote one, travel managers would do well to master their table of three. This ratio emerges from a study recently carried out by the Accor group among 9,000 travellers...

After the strong winds of travel revenge in the leisure sector, business travel and events are taking over to bolster the performance of hotel groups. Accor, IHG, Hilton and Marriott all agree with this assessment, as they announced their third-quarter results and took part in a question-and-answer session with...

Soon, by the end of 2026, Sofitel will offer a new airport hotel in Dublin, directly connected to Terminal 2, the one used by Aer Lingus and Delta, United and American Airlines passengers, as well as Emirates and El Al. "We are delighted to strengthen our presence in major international hubs with our long-standing partner...

The arrival of Mama Shelter in Amsterdam was recently announced for 2027, in a creative district in the image of the brand, in the north of the Dutch capital, near the NDSM shipyards converted into a mecca for street art. But before that, business travellers who are fans of the lifestyle brand will be able to...

Sofitel is strengthening its presence on the banks of the Nile. The luxury brand could already boast prime positions in Egypt with the Winter Palace in Luxor and the legendary Old Cataract in Aswan, as well as its first hotel in Cairo, located on the tip of Gezira Island, in the Zamalek district. In...

New York's hotel icons are each reinventing themselves. Soon, in the spring of 2025, the city will welcome back one of its iconic addresses, the Waldorf Astoria. The largest hotel in the world when it opened in 1931, this monument to American hospitality closed its doors in March 2017. Bankruptcy of its owner, the insurer...

The lifestyle spirit of Mama Shelter is about to conquer Amsterdam. Expected to open in early 2027, the future hotel will be built in a location that reflects the brand's image, the Noord district, long occupied by the NDSM shipyards, now converted into a creative and cultural scene. Separated from the city centre by the Ij, but only 15 minutes from...

It has seen so many personalities pass through its doors and lived so many lives before its new renaissance. The Sofitel Sydney Wentworth has just reopened its doors after renovation, picking up the thread of its long and prestigious history. Nestling in the heart of the business district of Australia's leading metropolis, the hotel was at its...

No doubt the story of this success was already being written when Bernard Mignard and Michel Vincent decided to dedicate their hotel brand to the god of travel and trade, Mercure. How could a hotel with such a name not prosper around the world? Since the first hotel opened in 1974 in Saint-Witz,...

It's not quite a combo, but it's close. Two new hotels, developed by the Borealis group, have just opened next door to each other, around ten minutes from Brussels airport and close to NATO headquarters and the offices of numerous companies, including Honeywell, 3M and EY. Both are...

TotalEnergies' Mobility Business offer has been extended to include the hotel sector, with the integration of Hcorpo's solutions. The Mobility Corporate Card, launched in 2021 to extend the range of possibilities offered by its Fleet Fuel Card, already enabled employees to pay for all their business travel expenses, without any advance payments or receipts.

A new Sofitel in Cotonou, the arrival of MGallery in Nairobi: the Accor group's luxury brands have taken pride of place in two major African destinations. Notably Sofitel, which recently opened Benin's first five-star hotel, ideally located for business travellers, just five minutes from the airport and...

"We write on the walls the strength of our dreams". The Accor Group's Handwritten Collection seems to have made Demis Roussos' words its own by affixing its logo in handwritten letters to the Accor Arena. To coincide with the Taratata concert celebrating the 40th anniversary of the former POPB, the top-of-the-range...

To be the guardians of the stadium for an evening; the only occupants, or almost the only occupants, of a Parc des Princes suddenly empty after vibrating to the songs of the PSG supporters. Then to wake up in a stadium in the simple beauty that has just been woken from its slumber, this brutalist nudity designed by the architect Roger Taillibert in the...

Having joined Accor at the same time as the other lifestyle brands of the American group SBE, which was acquired by the French hotel operator in 2018, the Hyde brand is beginning to expand around the world. Following the opening of an all-inclusive and adults-only resort in Bodrum last May, it has just set up in quick succession...