budget hotels

Grand luxury with the unveiling of the first Orient Express in Rome - the Grand Hotel de la Minerve - at the end of 2024; lifestyle to start the year with the inauguration of the Hyde London City and the 25hours Hotel The Oddbird in Jakarta; and, in between, new hotels that are as premium as they are budget: Accor is rolling out...

Mama Shelter has had a following. Building on the success of this emblematic lifestyle brand over the last fifteen years, which has since been sold to Accor, Serge Trigano has set himself a new challenge with Oh Baby, a new hotel concept at more affordable prices, around a hundred euros a night. A new offspring for the 'Mama', as it were...

Following on from Paris CDG airport last March, Eklo has set up shop near another popular stop-off point for business travellers: Montpellier's Saint-Roch station. Located just opposite the station, five minutes from Place de la Comédie, the new hotel from the business and lifestyle chain...

After Nice and Paris CDG airport, you opened a third hotel in France in Aubervilliers last spring. Are you satisfied with their business? Karim Malak - These openings have been a resounding success, and we're getting up to cruising speed very quickly. The hotel market is doing well, so we've made a big...

Choice Hotels made no secret of its desire to acquire the Wyndham group. A merger between the world's two largest franchisors could create a group almost the size of Marriott, the world's largest hotel group with over 1.5 million rooms. For the last six months,...

A fan of the best prices and an apostle of value-for-money, the B&B Hotels chain is offering new advantages to its customers. The budget hotel chain is launching a loyalty scheme that is both simple and effective. Called "B&me", its offer is based on three pillars: firstly, a single rate - €50 per night - in all the chain's new hotels, and secondly, a...

Being the undisputed leader in luxury and premium hotels doesn't seem to be enough for Marriott. For some time now, the group has been showing increasing interest in the mid-range segment. Buoyed by strong demand for value-for-money hospitality, the American hotelier introduced a new midscale brand this year and a new midscale brand this...

The conversion of existing hotels is certainly one of the current trends in the development of major hotel groups. IHG has seen this in particular with the rapid growth of its Voco brand since its launch in 2018, and now close to a hundred establishments open or in the pipeline. To continue in this vein and complete its range of...

The Radisson Group is stepping up the deployment of recharging solutions for electric vehicles. Committed to e-mobility, the hotelier has already been a partner of Allego since 2021, with the aim of equipping all its hotels in Europe with appropriate charging stations by 2025. The first ultra-fast recharging solution was installed at the Radisson Blu in Frankfurt last year...

Do what we do well, but do it even better: this philosophy underpins the future activity of Accor's new Premium, Midscale and Economy (P&ME) division, which brings together the brands that have made the group's history. And which, including Ibis, Novotel, Pullman and Mercure, still generate a large proportion of sales...

"The job is done. Now it's a question of delivering results", concluded Accor CEO Sébastien Bazin. At its Investor Day, the French group unveiled to the financial community the opening of a new chapter in its growth, symbolised by a new organisation that will consolidate the group's far-reaching transformation while...

Marriott International has remained firmly attached to its position as the world's leading group, acquired since the takeover of Starwood in 2016. With one and a half million rooms at the end of last year, and still growing, the American hotelier is well ahead of Hilton and China's Jin Jiang, the other two groups with one million rooms in...

Is a new hotel giant emerging in the United States? The Wall Street Journal reported on 23 May that Choice Hotels was interested in buying its rival Wyndham. "According to people familiar with the matter," says the American daily, while adding that the two parties...

The Crown. In this case, it has nothing to do with the hit Netflix series, as it is the name of the first hotel in Poland to be part of Accor's new brand, the Handwritten Collection. However, for its visitors, this name suggests a certain majesty, a link between the past and the present that this charming hotel intends to maintain...

As in France, budget hotels in the UK have performed well over the past year, as shown by the results just presented by the Whitbread Group, parent company of Premier Inn hotels, for the 2022-2023 financial year. With a growth in revenue per room of +27 % compared to 2020, its establishments have been able to...

Choice Hotels has just announced a refresh of its Ascend Collection brand, which now focuses on a "world dedicated to Hygge". Why this change? Jonathan Mills - Without all travellers being aware of it, the Ascend Collection, which now includes almost 70 hotels in Europe, was the first 'collection' brand in the world, before it became the first 'Hygge' brand in...

The German group Motel One, which has built its reputation on contemporary hotels at affordable prices, is slowly but surely approaching the 100-establishment mark. Operating mainly in Germany, as well as in Paris, near Porte Dorée in the 12th arrondissement, the hotelier had 88 hotels at the end of last year. But it can also...

While IHG has made the luxury and lifestyle hotel sector one of its main areas of development, this strategy does not obscure the fact that, in addition to all the InterContinental, Kimpton and Regent hotels to come, the Holiday Inn family of brands remains one of its most solid growth guarantees. Between them, the Holiday...

"A very, very good year", as Olivier Cohn, General Manager of Best Western France, describes it. Unsurprisingly, in line with the results published by other major players in the global hotel industry, Best Western had a very positive year in 2022. The reservation centre's worldwide sales rose by...

B&B Hotels has just announced its expansion ambitions in the United States. Why has the time come to tackle this market? Fabrice Collet - It's always time to lay the foundations for our future growth. Historically, B&B Hotels has always set its sights on new territories, be it Germany in 2000, Italy in 2010,...