budget hotels

The opening of the 500th hotel for its premium brands, the inauguration of two luxury hotels in major European cities, the strengthening of its offer in Dubai and renovations galore: Accor has been busy in recent days. In particular, the French group has just opened a luxury liner in the marina...

Conquering the Indian subcontinent: international hotel groups are looking for the magic bullet to penetrate a huge but elusive market. Accor hopes to have found it with the conclusion of a major partnership with the local leader in the travel sector, the conglomerate InterGlobe. In addition to its hotel activities, which include the development of around twenty ibis...

Marriott's dominance of the luxury hotel sector is well established. But the American group also intends to strengthen its position in the mid-range hotel sector, by attacking it from its most affordable angle. While its portfolio already includes a number of brands in this niche, such as Fairfield Inn, Four Points by Sheraton and Courtyard, on the...

Nearly 300 more hotels for a total of 50,000 rooms added to its portfolio, the 1,000 mark passed by Mercure, 330 more % eco-certified hotels in one year to reach 36 % of its labelled hotels, but above all a record number of new contracts: Accor will have had a year...

One thing is certain: it won't be the Maison Heler, the hotel just opened in Metz, the brainchild of Philippe Starck. Nor, no doubt, will the SAX Paris, the Hilton Group's first luxury hotel in Paris, due to open in early April. So why not the Hilton Turin Centre or the...

BWH Hotels, a French hotel cooperative now comprising 320 hotels in France and more than 4,000 worldwide, offers a unique structure that combines the strength of a national network with the uniqueness of each establishment. With more than 13 brands in its French portfolio, the group can meet all your accommodation needs, from...

Organising a seminar that reflects your company's identity while creating memorable moments is a challenge. With BWH Hotels, benefit from the strength of a French network of independent hotels combining diversity, quality of service and a commitment to eco-responsibility. Turn your next business event into a unique and inspiring experience! BWH Hotels is a hotel cooperative currently comprising 320...

To begin with, let's take a look back at 2024. How did the year go, marked by the hosting of the Olympic Games in Paris, but also by a lull before the event? Olivier Cohn - 2024 was a very special year, with no regularity or visibility. After a good start to the year, we experienced a fairly sharp drop in business in April...

An Olympic year, an atypical year. This is how InExtenso sums up hotel activity in France 2024, marked by accommodation sales close to those recorded the previous year. With the occupancy rate down 1 pt, to 64%, and the average price continuing to rise - +2%, to €127 - revenue per room was up on the previous...

The highest rate of growth in a century for Hilton, a still powerful development dynamic for Marriott, and a record year for Radisson: 2024 was a year rich in new developments for the world's leading groups. As well as new projects for the years to come, these groups are all presenting...

Holiday Inn Express is joining the trend with the introduction of a new lobby concept for hotels in the wider Europe, Middle East, Asia & Africa region. While "the roll-out of a new generation of rooms is underway", as Eric Viale, IHG's Managing Director for Southern Europe, explained in a recent interview, the most...

Updated on 22 January at 2.30pm. The number of certified tourist accommodations has tripled in three years, and the Green Key label has grown for the fifth year running. After an increase of 45% in the number of certified establishments last year, the same trend has been recorded this year. Among the new 2,428 award winners, compared with 1,665 last year, more than...

Hilton is strengthening its offering in Lyon with the announced arrival of four new hotels under a franchise agreement with Lyon-based Arteloge Hôtels & Restaurants, owner of one of Lyon's iconic five-star hotels, the Villa Florentine. This partnership will see the launch in France of one of Hilton's latest brands, Spark, which is positioned in the...

The ibis brand is giving a new look to its ibis hotels in Abidjan. Opened in the early 1980s, these establishments located in the heart of the Ivorian capital, in the Plateau and Marcory districts, underwent a long renovation phase before reopening in the last few days completely transformed. Now under the ibis Styles banner,...

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...

The low-cost, low-carbon easyHotel chain is strengthening its presence in France with the opening of a hotel in Marseille in the last few days. This follows the opening of its first hotel in Nice, and the opening of two hotels in the Paris region, one near Paris CDG and Villepinte, and the other in Aubervilliers. "Marseille has been...

Brit Hotel for Brittany. A land rich in hotel adventures that saw the birth, among others, of the Océania chain in 1975, founded by the Branellec family, who were also behind the beginnings in Brest, in 1990, of B&B Hotels, whose success, later supported by Eurazeo and now Goldman Sachs, now extends as far as the United States. And if...

Knowing how to be flexible. That's not the least of its qualities, and the Marriott group is demonstrating it by changing the name of its Four Points Express by Sheraton brand, recently launched in Europe. A few months after the opening of the first establishments in London, as well as in Istanbul, Bursa and Antalya in Turkey, the brand designed to increase the...

Marriott is continuing its offensive in the mid-range hotel sector. In 2023, the group launched the Four Points Express by Sheraton brand, which made its debut this year in Europe, in London and Turkey, as well as in Japan, as well as a low-cost long-stay brand in the United States, StudioRes, which made its debut...

Having just passed the 400-hotel mark in France, B&B Hotels is giving fresh impetus to its growth in the country. The group, which now has its sights set on 600 hotels, has just announced the acquisition of 22 hotels previously operated by Grape Hospitality. These new hotels will strengthen the Group's network...