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The result of the transformation of a former Holiday Inn, voco Paris Porte de Clichy opened its doors in September 2023. Redesigned by the architect Oscar Lucien Ono and his Maison 20, it features a restaurant concept - Romcoco - created by Paris Society Consulting, as well as 11 meeting rooms and a meeting room...

Singapore Airlines has just announced that it will be returning to Brussels from April 2024. The airline had served the Belgian capital in the past, but decided to suspend the route in the early 2000s. SIA's return is scheduled for 5 April aboard an Airbus A350-900 tri-class...

Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), the Italian state-owned rail operator, is planning to launch a high-speed line linking a large part of Europe. Initially, this would be on the same route as Thalys/Eurostar, Paris/Brussels/Amsterdam. With the eventual possibility of integrating a service to both Barcelona and Berlin....

What if SNCF and SNCB launched a remake of IZY? Launched in 2016, Thalys' low-cost subsidiary disappeared from the radar last summer after six years of service between Paris and Brussels. The project unveiled on 18 July by the Franco-Belgian duo is reminiscent of this intermediate positioning: a...

With a solid catalogue of African destinations, Brussels Airlines is looking after its business customers with appropriate infrastructures. The renovation of the Sunrise lounge, officially completed on 7 July, is part of this approach. Located in zone T at Brussels airport, this lounge is designed to welcome business class passengers...

Just launched in Berlin, the lifestyle brand The Hoxton is also taking to the skies of Brussels, having recently set up shop on the 22 floors of the former IBM headquarters. A Brutalist-style office tower revisited as a hotel, The Hoxton's regular design studio, AIME Studios, plays on the seventies atmosphere and the volumes of the building to...

Brussels International Airport is once again flirting with a network of connections around the world close to what it was in 2019. This summer, no fewer than 175 direct destinations are served from Brussels Airport by 58 airlines. Three years ago, however, the airport had almost 200. The...

Brussels Airlines closed 2022 with a loss of 74.1 million euros. However, this represents an improvement of 115 million euros on the previous year. With a more competitive structure, Brussels Airlines is looking to the future with greater optimism. The company is therefore resuming growth in the fleet and recruitment. If the...

18.93 million passengers. This is the number of passengers announced by Brussels airport last year. This represents an increase of 102% compared with 2021 (9.4 million passengers). With this number of passengers, the Belgian airport posted traffic that was only 28% below its record for 2019. Before the Covid crisis, Brussels...

One hundred years old. The Centaurus Group, owner of the upmarket Maison Albar boutique hotels, is celebrating this venerable age with a show of its full vigour. Founded in 1923 by a family who came up from the Aveyron to open their first hotel in Paris - and now in its fourth generation at the helm with Céline...

Berlin The Hoxton Charlottenburg (mid-2023) The innovative spirit of The Hoxton is perfectly in tune with the golden age of 1920s Berlin. And it is this theme that will serve as the common thread for the brand's first venture into the German capital. Located in the West, in the Charlottenburg district, the future The Hoxton revisits the...

The 2022 edition of the GBTA Europe conference was unique in more ways than one. For the first time, the international business travel association devoted an entire day to a new Sustainability Summit, prior to its 'classic' event. It was also the first time that GBTA Europe had gone beyond the German market, the preserve of its...

While Ennismore, Accor's lifestyle hotel subsidiary, has just passed the 100-establishment mark with the opening of the SO/Paris, its brand The Hoxton is already preparing new developments. Seven new hotels are due to open in Europe between now and the beginning of 2024, adding to its network in the major business cities, whether...

Since this summer, Brussels Airport has been offering a new system enabling passengers to check in their own baggage. With their boarding card, passengers on short and medium-haul flights operated by Brussels Airlines, as well as other Lufthansa Group airlines, can now print out their own baggage tags and check in their luggage. The authorities have...

In June 2022, Brussels airport returned to more or less normal traffic levels. The Belgian hub recorded 1.73 million passengers, an increase of 1,68% compared with June 2021. However, this still represents a fall of 28% compared with June 2019, before the crisis. The management of...

On 20 June, it was Brussels airport's turn to face a staff shortage, with major consequences for business travellers. The airport management was forced to cancel all operations scheduled for Monday. The reason: strike action within the...

It's not so easy to venture into low-cost territory on a route favoured by business travellers... At least, that's what the decision made official this week by Thalys seems to mean, as the company is putting an end to its low-cost offer. On 10 July, IZY will disappear from the radar after six years of operation. "...

Following the green light given to the Eurostar/Thalys merger by the European Commission in March, a new stage in this project has just been completed with the merger of the two rail companies within the Eurostar Group holding company, named after the cross-Channel carrier, the brand name that will continue to exist. While Eurostar Group's address is...

Brussels-Amsterdam by train? The Thalys high-speed train immediately springs to mind. It currently runs eight times a day between the two cities in 1 hour 52 minutes. In comparison, the NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) in cooperation with the Belgian railway company SNCB links the two cities 11 times a day on average. But with a journey time of...

Two aircraft based, 35 destinations this winter and for the summer 2022 season. Ryanair has become a major player in air transport in Riga, the capital of Latvia. The investment for this new base, opened in November, amounted to 200 million dollars. The carrier has added 17 new destinations to its existing network...