budget hotels

"Standardisation is over": Sebastien Bazin, CEO of AccorHotels, is sounding the death knell for the efficient, streamlined budget hotels that were the norm for many decades. Personalised establishments that are open to the outside world, a welcome that is both mobile and friendly, lobbies that have been transformed into living spaces: the ibis brand aims to meet new expectations...

The Deutsche Hospitality group is adding a new string to its bow by acquiring a majority stake in Zleep Hotels, which has 10 hotels in Denmark and one in Sweden, with a recent opening on the outskirts of Stockholm. With this acquisition, the German hotel group is killing two birds with one stone, as it establishes a presence in...

Business travellers looking for low-cost accommodation near Paris-CDG airport will soon be able to take advantage of an easyHotel, under an agreement signed with the ADP group. Expected to open in 2020 just a stone's throw from the Aéroville shopping complex, this low-cost establishment will offer 209 rooms and a model similar to low-cost aviation...

In the same way that the major hotel groups are playing the consolidation card, the key players in the independent hotel sector are strengthening their offerings. Logis, Europe's leading network with 2,200 hotel-restaurants, most of them located in rural areas, intends to strengthen its presence in French towns and cities. To this end, the voluntary chain...

Business travellers will soon have a new option for their business trips to Scotland. Yotel has announced that it will open a new hotel in Glasgow in November 2019. The hotel will offer 256 rooms, or "cabins" because of their small size, as the chain calls them. "Our customers stay an average of five hours in a...

What is the profile of your business clientele? We cater for both sales staff and blue-collar workers who have travel packages at their disposal, and their bosses who appreciate the quality of our hotels, which are close to the higher categories, but at much lower prices. We have a very good market share in...

The prospect of turning one of the world's biggest hubs into an airport hotel could not have left the Yotel brand, which specialises in Japanese-style capsule hotels, indifferent. And the idea of offering passengers a place to put down their bags for a night or a few hours could not leave the operator indifferent...

The low-cost chain hotelF1 has just given its offers a facelift. On 10 April, AccorHotels' super budget chain announced a new range of rooms and public areas. The overhaul begins with a new name based on the theme of the road. The '#Ontheroad' hotels offer rooms named...

Your group is growing from strength to strength. How far do you intend to go? Pierre-Frédéric Roulot - We are the world's fifth-largest hotel group, and our ambition is to be number three within two years. In 2017, we opened nearly 1,000 establishments around the world, two-thirds of them in China, where our group...

Two brand launches, positive momentum in terms of both results and growth in the offering, and a new strategic vision to continue the upmarket efforts undertaken over the last three years: Best Western had an "extremely positive" year in 2017, according to Quentin Vandevyver, President of Best Western France. Firstly, because with a...

Carlson Rezidor is changing its identity to Radisson Hotel Group. As a result, the hotel group will now rely on the global recognition of its Radisson flagship brand. The reference to Carlson was effectively obsolete since 2016 and the sale of the hotel division of parent company Carlson Wagonlit to Chinese group...

The British group Whitbread, owner of the Premier Inn chain, has announced the acquisition of 19 hotels in Germany. The budget hotel brand, which has a strong presence in the UK market, had already begun to enter this market with its first 240-room property in Frankfurt. A further 11 hotels, equivalent to 2,400 rooms, are also in the process of...

To celebrate the opening of its 400th establishment, in Nanterre Rueil-Malmaison, B&B Hôtels has unveiled a new design that will be deployed in the budget hotel chain's future urban establishments. Designed by the interior and design architects at Agence Blanchet d'Istria, the concept is described by Vincent Quandalle, the group's managing director for France,...

For its arrival on the American market, ibis Styles has chosen a destination that is well known to business travellers: New York and its La Guardia airport. The AccorHotels group made the opening of this new address official on 31 August, and is confident about the brand's potential in the United States...

A five-star hotel alongside a youth hostel in the same building complex: at first sight, the association may seem surprising. But it bears witness to a very contemporary meeting of minds between the luxury brand 1 Hotels, with its very green and natural inspiration, and Slo Living, a sophisticated youth hostel concept born in Lyon. This innovative complex...

our customers know how to avoid the inconveniences of travelling Who are YotelAir's customers? Hubert Viriot - For the most part, they are very frequent travellers, who are aware of the hazards of travel and know how to avoid these inconveniences. In London Gatwick, for example, low-cost flights generally leave very early in the morning....

B&B Hôtels, which embodied the new generation of super-economical establishments with its Econochic concept launched in 2006, is opening a new page in this history with an ambitious renovation plan, aimed at transforming 160 hotels, including more than 80 this year. As part of this plan, €100 million will be invested by...

After announcing its entry into the Swiss market at the beginning of October, with a hotel due to open in Zurich, the French B&B Hotels chain is continuing its growth in Europe with the acquisition of the 15 hotels of the Sidorme group, with which B&B was already a partner through a cross-promotion agreement. Launched in 2006, Sidorme...

The arrival of the budget chain Campanile in China has been in the pipeline for some time now, and was even planned when Louvre Hotels Group was acquired by Jin Jiang International a year ago. The Jin Jiang teams told us this from the outset," recalls Pierre-Frédéric Roulot, CEO of Louvre Hotels Group. They love Campanile,...

Contemporary furniture, a décor designed by a colourful designer, Karim Rashid, high-tech facilities with flat screens packed with connectivity and the possibility of opening the room with a smartphone: long gone are the days of a budget hotel industry stuck in its somewhat cumbersome standards! Of course, these standards were...