Berlin

There is no doubt that the world's leading hotels are increasingly turning their attention to top-of-the-range establishments, seeking to attract them into their fold through their collections, including the latest Emblems at Accor and Vignette at IHG. However, despite this new competition, the Preferred Hotels group, which has long been positioned in this segment, is still...

Berlin Brandenburg International Airport (commonly known as BER) has certainly welcomed this news. A partnership has just been signed between the airline Easyjet and Deutsche Bahn. The aim is to use the airport's underground station to take passengers travelling to BER to several German cities by train. It will...

A partner of the Accor group in a joint venture whose ambition is to become the world's leading player in lifestyle hotels, is developing its flagship brand The Hoxton with several openings announced in Europe over the next two years. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="64451"] Following the brand's recent arrival in Rome, several new...

On Thursday 25 March, tourism and MICE professionals are gathering for a face-to-face conference at the Estrel Hotel in Berlin. The aim of the conference is to demonstrate that face-to-face meetings could once again become possible thanks to the introduction of rapid antigen tests. The conference is organised by...

Eurowings wants to focus more on passenger comfort and confidence in the product offered by Lufthansa's hybrid subsidiary. "I think passengers are now ruling out the idea of travelling by paying €5 for a plane seat accompanied by cheap accommodation. They are now looking for a travel partner in which they can...

Berlin's new Brandenburg International BER airport is decidedly unlucky. Not only has its opening been delayed by a decade, but its debut is taking place at one of the worst times in the history of aviation. The covid pandemic continues to have a dramatic effect on passenger demand. The second wave of...

The Air France Airbus A320 left Berlin-Tegel at 15:30 on 8 November, closing a chapter in aviation that will have lasted 70 years. It also marked the official debut of Berlin Brandenburg International airport, whose commercial acronym is BER. "The opening in the current period is certainly complicated, but we wanted to show optimism," described...

The consolidation of all air traffic onto a single hub will take effect on 8 November at Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) airport, the German capital's new air hub. It took twelve years to inaugurate BBI. Corruption scandals and construction errors undermined the development of the airport.

Patience and time are undoubtedly the two lifebloods of hotel development. The Steigenberger Airport Hotel Berlin, ready since 2012 and the scheduled opening of the German capital's new airport, has had to wait, postponement after postponement, for the official inauguration of Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) before opening its doors. "We are delighted...

The Covid-19 pandemic has relatively spared Germany. According to the latest figures, Germany and France are close on the heels of each other, with around 225,000 infections. But the mortality rate in Germany is almost four times lower than in France, with 9,300 deaths to date. This probably explains the decontamination rules...

13,254 meetings of rotating associations worldwide last year. This record figure recorded by the ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association) is not about to be equalled, at least not in 2020. With a further 317 events recorded in 2019, the number has never been so high, following a particularly prolific 2018....

Once again it has been officially confirmed. The new Berlin Brandenburg International airport will open on 31 October, which is good news for the German capital, which will finally be able to put behind it the ups and downs that have surrounded the infrastructure since the start of the second millennium. Berlin Brandenburg International will in fact have cost nearly seven billion...

Fear for the cities. Due to the inevitable effects of climate change, many coastal megacities - including New York, Miami, Shanghai, Mumbai and Bangkok - are trembling at the thought of one day being swept away by rising sea levels. The most pessimistic scientists are even betting on the disappearance of several major business centres at the beginning of the next century....

"You can't be and have been. Well, you can! All over the world, the world's major business cities are putting the popular saying to rest. What were the key metropolises at the end of the 19th century? New York and Chicago in the United States, London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow in Europe, Tokyo in Asia,...

The corridors of the FFB (Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg) airport authority, which manages Berlin's airports, were probably full of smiles at the beginning of October. The Airport Supervisory Board has just approved the allocation of airlines to the future BER complex. The airport will in fact comprise three terminals: Terminal 1, Terminal 2, Terminal 3 and Terminal...

Europe's biggest event for new electronics, the IFA 2019 ("Internationale Funk Ausstellung") in Berlin brings together all kinds of products, many of them aimed at business travellers: laptops, secure data storage, headphones, smartphones, external batteries... everything that can make life easier for mobile professionals, in short. Several ranges...

Easyjet has been flying to Berlin for almost fifteen years, but it is now just over a year and a half since the low-cost airline earned its stripes as a major carrier in the German capital, following the bankruptcy of its competitor Airberlin. Since then, Easyjet has been steadily strengthening its position...

With two countries in the world's top 3, and thirteen in the top 20, Europe has established itself as a key continent in the congress sector. While the United States is still solidly in first place in the ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association) rankings published last year, the benchmark for the hosting of major events, Germany and the United States are...

After focusing for a time on Frankfurt, the annual conference of the GBTA Europe (Global Business Travel Association) has this year moved to Berlin, to the Estrel Congress Center, four years after the association's last event in Berlin. A successful comeback, judging by the excellent attendance figures for the three days of...

[highlight] Vincent Sabot, CEO of Sigfox Germany Germany is the biggest IoT market in Europe." How did Internet of Things (IoT) specialist Sigfox come into being? Vincent Sabot - Sigfox was born in 2010, near Toulouse, from the meeting between Ludovic Le Moan, a serial entrepreneur in the digital and IoT sectors, and Christophe...