business hotels

Armani, Baccarat, Bulgari, Camper, Fauchon, Muji and Maisons du Monde are just some of the famous names in fashion and interior design who have showcased their art of living in hotels that, at one time or another, have graced the pages of lifestyle magazines. Is this a logical continuation of the story? Because...

Hilton has not waited until the beginning of next year to present its list of most eagerly awaited openings in 2023. And, of the twenty or so hotels selected to represent the American group's best projects, two are in French cities linked by a rich wine-growing and historical heritage, Bordeaux and Dijon. While the Burgundy metropolis...

With Paris hotels recording 88% in occupancy, over 80% in Bordeaux establishments and a similar level in the major French cities, the results presented by In Extenso Tourisme, Culture et Hôtellerie (TCH) for the month of September confirm the return of business travellers to the...

Mama Shelter's expansion in France will continue over the coming months. From its current eight hotels, the brand created by Serge Trigano and now owned by Accor should have eleven by summer 2024. Recently, the lifestyle brand gave a number of details about its arrival in Rennes next March, with a 119-room hotel...

Updated on 9 November at 9am. Hotel groups are making no secret of their ambitions in Africa. The Africa Hotel Investment Forum held at the Fairmont Taghazout Bay - a seaside resort north of Agadir in Morocco where Hilton has just opened a new resort - gave them the opportunity to prove it...

Like most hotel groups, is IHG satisfied with 2022 so far? Eric Viale - After a first quarter impacted by Omicron, we have seen a real upturn in business. Almost all our hotels are performing in line with, if not better than, 2019, with occupancy levels close to...

It's almost astonishing, but until now a group on the scale of Hyatt had no presence in Portugal, either in the Algarve, Porto or Lisbon. This anomaly is no longer so with the debut of a Hyatt Regency in the Portuguese capital. To make its entry into the Portuguese market, the American hotelier has set up on the...

Salt Lake City intends to establish itself as a destination of choice for organising world-class events. And Utah's capital is making this ambition a reality with the addition of a Hyatt Regency hotel directly linked to its Salt Palace convention centre. "The project was envisioned by Salt Lake County and industry partners some...

A contemporary design, a real coworking space, a sustainable spirit: the Ruby Hotels chain is deploying all the components of its affordable lifestyle offer within the walls of an existing hotel in Amsterdam. To make its debut in the Netherlands, the German-born hotelier is integrating the walls of an existing hotel, the first project of its kind in...

An apartment hotel is being prepared in Paris, a new brand strategy is being considered, and massive investment is being made in the renovation of its establishments: Appart City intends to maintain its pre-eminent position in the French long-stay accommodation market. With its hundred or so city residences positioned in the budget and mid-range segments, Appart City is one of the...

The Mama Shelter brand's expansion into French provincial cities has been in the pipeline since the announcement at the end of last year of new hotels in Nice, Dijon and Rennes. Among these destinations, Brittany is set to launch this salvo of openings by welcoming, from March 2023, the ninth hotel in the lifestyle brand created...

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...

The British group edyn, which specialises in long-stay hotels, is preparing to make a big splash in Paris and France. Hitherto developed in the British Isles and Germany, its upmarket lifestyle brand Locke is expected to open in 2024 a stone's throw from the Panthéon and the Sorbonne, in the 5th arrondissement. A location...

Launched at the end of last year in the United States, the Wyndham Group's Meetings Collection is now being exported around the world. As part of this expansion, this collection of hotels and resorts tailored to business events now includes more than 160 hotels. "Their teams are experts in delivering exceptional experiences and, thanks to The Meetings Collection,...

Growing rapidly around the world, the contemporary voco brand is undoubtedly one of the brands of which the IHG group is most proud with, since its launch in 2018, some forty hotels already open and almost as many more in the pipeline for a presence in more than 25 countries. If this expansion were...

After Oslo in the summer, Vienna at the beginning of the year and London in 2021, Radisson RED is continuing its tour of European capitals. The Radisson group's lifestyle brand has set up in the heart of Madrid, on Calle de Atocha, 500 m from the Spanish capital's famous TGV station. A convenient location for business travellers,...

It is the second most developed brand in the Marriott International portfolio. Positioned in the mid-range segment, Fairfield by Marriott has 1,230 hotels open worldwide, representing more than one eighth of the American group's total portfolio. Surprisingly, however, it is still unknown in Europe and the Middle East....

The Hyatt group is going to give a real boost to its JdV brand in Europe. Expected to open in Bordeaux at the end of the year, this lifestyle brand, which promotes "Joie de Vivre" - hence JdV - has only recently made its appearance on the continent. To date, it has opened one hotel in Rome and three others in Sweden, in Stockholm and...

It's a paradox. The inexorable rise in the Swiss franc does not seem to be penalising the Swiss economy as a whole, and the hotel sector in particular. In the space of a year, the Swiss franc has fallen from CHF 1.07 to the euro to CHF 0.98 on 6 October. At the end of June, the Swiss franc had reached absolute parity...

The smallest of the big groups. With almost 1,200 hotels worldwide, compared with over 8,000 for Marriott and just under 7,000 for Hilton, Hyatt is certainly not the most bulimic hotelier. However, the reputation of its top-of-the-range establishments and the presence of its hotels in the main...