business hotels
Crowne Plaza: a new flagship hotel in Manhattan
It was one of those landmark hotels built in New York in the early 1960s to welcome visitors to the 1964 World's Fair. Today, it is the new American flagship for Crowne Plaza, IHG Group's primarily business-focused brand. Rising 22 floors just a stone's throw from Broadway and...
Hotel brands: a different perspective between business and...
Which hotel brands are the most highly regarded by the French? Analysis by YouGov BrandIndex, a continuous brand health tracking tool, reveals real differences in perception depending on whether travellers are on business or leisure. This is despite Accor group brands claiming the top three spots...
Hcorpo is banking on AI
«I am off to Madrid tomorrow, find me a hotel near my meeting with a gym and room service»: natural language booking is starting to make its mark in the hotel industry. Not only on the side of major groups which have announced partnerships with ChatGPT and co one after the other...
Long Stays by Radisson, a structured offer for extended stays
Radisson Hotel Group has announced the launch of Long Stays by Radisson Hotels, a new global proposition designed to capture the growing demand for long-stay travel of 14 days and more. While the group does not have dedicated 'extended stay' brands like Marriott's Residence Inn, Accor's Adagio or Staybridge Suites...
Leonardo Hotels: European expansion that goes via Evian
Leonardo Hotels has just doubled its presence in France in one fell swoop. With just one opening! Already present in Paris since the 2024 acquisition of the Hôtel Prelude Opera, which has become the Leonardo Boutique Hotel Paris Opera, the hotel group has just set up shop on the shores of Lake Geneva with its takeover on August 1st…
Best Western: confirmed dynamism in the first half
"We are anticipating an unprecedented pace of openings in 2026, likely exceeding thirty establishments": in an interview with our website last March, Olivier Cohn, the managing director of Best Western France, was forecasting sustained development for its network. The momentum is confirmed with 12 additional establishments for more…
Accor highlights business travel trends with its major accounts
Traveller experience, cost optimisation and CSR: two years ago, the first Accor Global Leadership Council meeting set out three priorities for business travel. Recently, this forum for exchanges between the French hotel group's management and its key corporate clients concluded with new trends, focused on an approach…
Radisson Collection is settling in Chengdu
Chengdu has confirmed its status as the gateway to Southwest China for international exchange, and Radisson Collection is following suit. Jin Jiang International Hotels and Radisson Hotel Group are opening their very first regional address under this brand there, within the Business & Innovation Centre for China-Europe Cooperation (CCEC), the Sino-European cooperation platform…
A first W hotel in Saudi Arabia
The King Abdullah Financial District had been waiting for a signature touch to translate its ambition into a hotel experience. This has now been achieved: W Hotels, a lifestyle brand from the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio, is establishing its first Saudi address there, at the crossroads of business flows and new social trends that are redefining the capital. The LW Design firm has…
Four Points by Sheraton makes its debut in France in Reims
The internationalisation of Reims' hotel sector continues with the opening of the Four Points by Sheraton Reims Cathédrale. Located close to the city centre, on the banks of the Aisne à la Marne canal, this establishment adds to the list of global hotel brands that have gradually appeared in the Champagne capital, starting with Marriott's Autograph Collection, then Radisson, Holiday...
London: Hyatt goes to Olympia
A Hyatt Regency hotel today, a CitizenM to come in a few weeks: the hotel industry is participating in the metamorphosis of one of Europe's oldest exhibition venues: the historic Olympia Exhibition Centre, which opened in the 1880s in the Hammersmith district. The project, costing £1.3 billion, aims to bring the venue into...
Pullman is changing the rules of premium hospitality
A slightly stressed businessman arrives at check-in, no doubt weary from his endless travels. He then gradually loosens his tie, rolls up the sleeves of his white shirt before swapping it for a polo shirt to play with the shaker and blend in with the hotel's atmosphere...
Benoît Racle (Accor): "Pullman, a brand that's going to take off..."
Can you go over the genesis of Pullman XChange, this concept of events that accompany the brand's transformation? Benoît Racle - Their purpose is to allow us to take the time to ask ourselves questions, to have real conversations that go beyond small talk and allow us to think. Each time, the...
Hotel Group Rankings: A New 'Fab Five'
A club that is no longer so exclusive. Five hotel groups can indeed boast of being millionaires in terms of room numbers. This is what emerges from the Top 10 of global hospitality recently unveiled by the MKG and Hospitality On consultancy. The British group IHG thus joins Marriott, the first to have crossed...
For Hyatt and IHG, all roads lead to Italy
The Hyatt group is continuing its expansion in Italy with three upcoming hotels that will be added to its six existing properties. The Park Hyatt Milan will soon have a luxurious counterpart in Sicily, Taormina, with a 121-suite hotel offering views of Etna and the Ionian Sea from their private terraces. Expected...
Radisson: MICE in Bonn, Luxury in Frankfurt
A perfect harmony between Mozart and Beethoven. The Radisson Blu brand has taken over the management of the main business hotels in the legendary composers' birthplaces, one after the other. In Salzburg, it's the former Wyndham Grand Salzburg, with its 1,785 m² of event space and a ballroom that can accommodate 1,000 people, and in...
Switzerland Destination: a train of innovations for MICE
Cities on a human scale, surrounded by nature and beautiful landscapes, bearing the marks of their rich past but looking towards the future, and all easily accessible by TGV from Paris: Switzerland offers everything that appeals to event organisers today. Namely, compact destinations where everything is done on foot or...
Enchanted Radisson in Salzburg
Salzburg's largest business hotel is changing its tune. Formerly under the Wyndham Grand brand, the establishment has just come under the umbrella of the Radisson group and its upscale brand, Radisson Blu. "Salzburg has long been one of Austria's most important congress destinations, and this hotel is its..."
CDS and BCD connect their solutions to AI assistants
The timing is symbolic. As VivaTech, the major Parisian innovation event, gets underway at the Porte de Versailles from June 17th to 20th, CDS is unveiling, just before the show opens, its services' connection to the global artificial intelligence ecosystem, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot and other enterprise AI agents. Among the first solutions…
Canada, the other MICE destination in North America
Canada is something of the poor relation in the football World Cup due to the limited size of its stadiums by FIFA criteria. Only thirteen matches will take place there, 7 in Vancouver and 6 in Toronto, including just one round of 16 match. The country is nonetheless hoping for tourist revenue and…
