business hotels

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...

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,...