budget hotels

The budget brand Ibis Styles has made its debut in Scandinavia with its first hotel in Copenhagen. The Accor Group brand has set up close to the centre of the Danish capital, in the predominantly sustainable Ørestad business district. Just a 15-minute metro ride from the central station, the hotel is located in the...

The B&B Hotels group is preparing to cross the Atlantic. This is not a first, since the budget hotel specialist has already set up in the West Indies, with a first establishment in Martinique, Fort de France, as well as in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in particular. But this time, the challenge is huge....

Eklo is currently setting up near Paris CDG airport. What other developments can you expect? Emmanuel Petit - After Eklo Roissy, this year we will open our tenth establishment in Montpellier, opposite the TGV station. And we now aim to double in size over the next five years....

EasyHotel is continuing its expansion in France with a new establishment just outside Paris, in Aubervilliers. The budget chain, which shares the orange livery of the famous airline but has separate destinies, had already landed in Nice in 2019, near the Palais des Congrès, and then at Paris-CDG airport last year. In...

B&B hotels continue to expand in France. At the end of last year, the budget hotel chain strengthened its offering in the Grand Est region with the acquisition of several Roi Soleil establishments from the Nehô group. Located in Mundolsheim, Holtzheim and Schiltigheim near Strasbourg, and in Sausheim and Kingersheim near Mulhouse, the...

The Accor group's portfolio is set to expand further in Abidjan next year. With six establishments - including the prestigious Sofitel Hotel Ivoire, as well as Pullman, Novotel, Movenpick and Ibis hotels - the French group is expecting a new complex to open in 2024, comprising two of its brands, Ibis Styles and Adagio. The investment platform...

Updated on 19 January at 12 noon. Budget chain B&B Hotels closed out 2022 with the inauguration of several establishments, notably in Bourg-en-Bresse, but also in Toulon with an 82-room hotel conveniently located for business travellers. Featuring the B&B urban concept with contemporary furnishings and refined graphics, the new hotel is...

The Green Key label is making inroads into the French hotel industry. Driven as much by customer expectations as by their own environmental concerns, more and more hotels are beginning to display this international label, created in Denmark in 1994 and deployed outside France under the name Green Key. The Best Western network...

Ultra-colourful interiors, furniture with curved lines, peppy rooms: the prizeotel brand offers its customers a contemporary atmosphere that is more cheerful than pared-down. Inspired hospitality at affordable prices, in line with the concept of "designocracy" advocated by its resident decorator, Karim Rashid. Co-creator of the brand with German hotelier Marco...

The Hilton Group continues to expand its portfolio with the launch of its 19th brand, Spark by Hilton. This new brand, positioned in the premium economy segment, completes the American group's offering in this niche, joining other brands such as Hampton, Tru and Motto. "When we looked at the economy category, we saw a segment that...

Embodying this new hybrid hotel model combining traditional rooms with user-friendly accommodation solutions, Eklo has just added an eighth address in France, in Lyon. After Le Havre, Le Mans, Lille, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Marne-la-Vallée and Toulouse, the group is continuing to expand with a new 111-room, 278-bed establishment in Vénissieux, on the outskirts of Lyon.

A bohemian and arty style, a contemporary spirit: business travellers used to staying at the Best Western Plus Paris Roissy hotel will find this establishment quite different. Firstly, because it was completely refurbished last year, and its rooms, designed to be warm and intimate, feature four distinct styles: 'La Bohème Esthétique', 'La Bohème Esthétique', 'La Bohème Esthétique' and 'La Bohème...

With luxury and lifestyle at the heart of its strategy, and new hotels in major world cities for its Novotel, Ibis and Pullman brands, Accor has presented its 2023 collection of flagship openings. In the luxury segment, several Raffles hotels will all open their doors in the middle of the year, including the eagerly awaited Raffles...

Having already appeared in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, Motto by Hilton, the American group's new lifestyle brand, is beginning its global expansion with its debut in Europe. Business travellers passing through Rotterdam will be able to discover its innovative concept close to the Markthal, a vast foodcourt with around 100 stands and restaurants,...

hotelF1 is undoubtedly the Accor group brand with the strongest "business" customer mix, even more so than Novotel, Pullman or Ibis. Even more so than Novotel, Pullman or Ibis. In fact, 80% of its sales come from business bookings. Its low-cost accommodation attracts a large number of construction and public works workers and sales reps passing through, the...

The budget brand Zleep Hotels, which first appeared near Copenhagen airport in 2003, is continuing to expand in its home country. Partly acquired in 2019 by the Deustche Hospitality group - parent company of the Steigenberger and InterCity Hotels brands, among others - the brand now has 15 establishments in Denmark, with the opening of...

A few weeks ago, at the beginning of June, easyHotel signed a major opening in the history of the budget chain. The inauguration of easyHotel Paris CDG-Villepinte not only marked the group's arrival in a strategic location for business travellers - who account for around 30% of easyHotel's clientele - but also gave it a new lease of life.

The Cloche d'Or in Luxembourg, a major urban development project that is already home to major companies such as PWC, Intesa San Paolo, Deloitte and IWG, the world leader in shared workplaces, will continue its development with a B&B Hotels hotel. Expected to open in the first half of 2025, the hotel will complete the contemporary development of this...

Despite the fact that the country is virtually closed to foreign travellers, China obviously remains a priority for the development of all the world's leading hotel companies. The British group IHG, for example, has just welcomed the opening of its 600th hotel, the Kimpton Bamboo Grove in Suzhou. But having the support of a leading player...

As the Jo&Joe brand, this new generation of youth hostels created by Accor, enters its fifth year of existence, how have business customers adopted its world, which combines dormitories, as usual, with en-suite rooms, in addition to lively bars and restaurants? "It's often this way,...