business hotels

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...

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...

The Spanish Melia group is taking over an emblematic Barcelona hotel, the Rey Juan Carlos, ideally located on the Catalan metropolis' main thoroughfare, the Avenida Diagonal. The hotel positions Melia as a new key player in Barcelona's MICE corporate events sector, as the establishment is attached to the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, the city's...

The Hyatt group has made no secret of its firm resolve to expand its offering in the EMEA region. And the start of 2023 has been extremely productive. After the opening of a Hyatt Regency in Izmir, with plenty of room for meetings, and the announcement of a new Unbound Collection member in Davos, the American group has just...

JW Marriott is adding a second address in Germany, following an initial hotel unveiled last year in Frankfurt. While in the financial capital, the luxury brand has entered the walls of the former Jumeirah, it is by taking over the reins of a former hotel of the Maritim Hotel group that JW Marriott has established itself in Berlin. And no...

One hundred years old. The Centaurus Group, owner of the upmarket Maison Albar boutique hotels, is celebrating this venerable age with a show of its full vigour. Founded in 1923 by a family who came up from the Aveyron to open their first hotel in Paris - and now in its fourth generation at the helm with Céline...

Canada Montreal Honeyrose Hotel, Tribute Portfolio (June) Located in the heart of the Quartier des spectacles, the cultural epicentre of Quebec's metropolis, this new upscale boutique hotel is inspired by the 1920s and Montreal's art of living. Affiliated with Marriott's Tribute Portfolio brand, the hotel is part of a new tower combining residential flats and guest rooms...

"Location, location, location". In Reykjavik, the Hilton Group remains true to the motto of its founder, Conrad Hilton. The American hotelier could not have found a better location to set up a new address in the Icelandic capital, its fourth after a Hilton, a Canopy by Hilton and, already, a hotel in the Curio Collection, the Reykjavik Konsulat...

If you had to pick one opening in France for the Hilton Group in 2023, which would it be? Emmanuel More - Several of them will stand out. For example, we will be opening a Canopy by Hilton in Cannes next summer, right next to the Palais des Festivals. A new design inspired by this glamorous destination, nearly 150 rooms...

Berlin The Hoxton Charlottenburg (mid-2023) The innovative spirit of The Hoxton is perfectly in tune with the golden age of 1920s Berlin. And it is this theme that will serve as the common thread for the brand's first venture into the German capital. Located in the West, in the Charlottenburg district, the future The Hoxton revisits the...

Paris/Ile de France Maison Delano Paris (February) American-born luxury lifestyle brand Delano, now part of the Accor group, is coming to Paris. To mark the occasion, an intimate version of its concept, called Maison Delano, will be opening early this year on rue d'Anjou, in the 8th arrondissement. The establishment revisits a former...

Updated on 8 September 2023 Puma's head office has already been located here, and now an AC by Marriott/Residence Inn hotel combo has been added: now completed, the Terre d'émergence complex adds the accommodation component to Strasbourg's new business district, l'Archipel. Right next to the European institutions, this major urban project continues to evolve...

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...

Radisson RED. With such a strong brand identity, this new hotel in Liverpool has everything it takes to become a favourite haunt for fans of the Reds, the legendary football club from the city in the north of England. And for business travellers, because of its location. Radisson's lifestyle brand has just given a new lease of life to a...

Maintain a balanced lifestyle even when you're on the move, relax and recharge your batteries: the Sleep Inn brand's promise is, on the face of it, very appealing to business travellers with busy schedules. This mid-range brand, which has already been operating in the United States for around ten years and has more than 400 hotels...

NH Hotels is making a name for itself in Frankfurt. Last autumn, the city welcomed a Nhow, in keeping with the tone of Germany's financial capital, with its 375 rooms decorated with wallpaper reminiscent of banknotes and its 18 studious meeting rooms. A top-of-the-range lifestyle hotel...

Valencia was in the spotlight this year, as both the World Capital of Design and the European Capital of Intelligent Tourism, shared with Bordeaux. The latter distinction provided an opportunity for the Spanish city of 800,000 inhabitants to hold an international conference at the end of November to promote its initiatives and projects in the field of intelligent tourism.

The Radisson group is swapping one of its brands for another at Nice airport. The former Park Inn, positioned in the mid-range segment, has become a Radisson hotel after a major refurbishment to raise the level of its offering and adapt the site to sustainable standards, with the establishment hoping soon to receive a Green Key label....

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,...

While Fairmont has just made a remarkable entry into Qatar, with a hotel housed in the emblematic Katara Towers and associated with a prestigious 132-suite Raffles, the month of November was above all an opportunity for Accor's premium brand to strengthen its presence in Morocco with two prestigious establishments added to the...