Accor

With more than 320 establishments in Germany, Accor will be strengthening its budget offering with several hotels in the ibis family of brands, perfectly positioned to cater for business travellers. Among the openings planned for 2025 is an ibis and ibis budget combo near Berlin-Brandenburg airport, marking the first time the French group has set up operations...

Ultra-luxury with the Orient Express La Minerva in Rome and the Raffles Sentosa in Singapore, a significant number of openings for Fairmont in major destinations around the world, as well as new Pullman, Novoyel and Tribe hotels: 2025 will be just as rich in openings for the Accor group. First and foremost, the...

Buoyed by the continuing growth in the number of potential customers around the world, the luxury hotel sector remains a key growth driver for hotel groups. The openings expected next year by Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and IHG only serve to confirm this. "The global demand for unforgettable stays and sophisticated accommodation is undeniable", says...

Dubai, Singapore, Cape Town, Casablanca, Amsterdam: Mama Shelter will continue to expand in the world's major cities over the coming years. However, the lifestyle brand, founded by Serge Trigano and now part of the Accor group and its subsidiary Ennismore, is still counting on France to underpin its development. After...

Rome will not only be vibrating to the rhythm of the 27th jubilee in the history of the Catholic Church in 2025. Next spring, the Eternal City will also be celebrating the opening of the first Orient Express hotel since the relaunch of this legendary brand by the Accor group. Located just a stone's throw from the Pantheon, this new...

This is not a business hotel. Or very little, given that Bruges is more attractive for its Unesco-listed city centre than for its economic weight. So much so that the Novotel Bruges Centre has converted the high-ceilinged rooms of its conference centre into 12 duplex suites designed to accommodate...

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,...