business hotels

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...

Pop art-style banknotes on the walls and ceilings, a staircase with a tumble of stylised coins, and gold, lots of gold: what better place than Frankfurt, home of the European Central Bank and Germany's main stock exchange, to open a hotel with a design based on the 'Art of Money'?

After Liverpool, where Novotel recently opened one of its new flagship establishments, the Accor group brand has just added another flagship hotel in Mexico City. In keeping with the contemporary evolution of the brand, the hotel features a design by Sundokovy Sisters and local studio Sello N. The combination of...

A crossroads for bohemian Europeans in the last century, a city that welcomed artists such as Jean Genet, Paul Morand, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Keith Richards, and a haven for all the writers of the beat generation, Tangier is now turning to luxury tourism. Morocco's second economic hub after Casablanca is expecting two new luxury hotels...

A futuristic 50-metre-high tower overlooking the whole of Brussels, with a high-tech research centre at its feet: this inspiring setting is home to Living Tomorrow, an international organisation specialising in working in the future. Its ambition is to become nothing less than Europe's largest experimental laboratory. Located in...

Security is undoubtedly one of the main criteria of choice for business travellers to Africa. With this in mind, eight Accor Group establishments, all owned by the Kasada investment fund, have just announced that they have obtained Safehotels certification, one of the world's leading hotel safety and security certifications. "The...

Accor has opened its 400th hotel in the Australia-Pacific region with the launch of The Porter House in Sydney, as part of the MGallery collection. This strategic milestone consolidates the French hotel chain's position as leader in the region. It also demonstrates its pre-eminent role in the world of 'down under' travel, symbolised by the...

While Accor occupies a key position in Poland thanks to Orbis, a subsidiary of AccorInvest which owns more than 70 hotels in the country and in Central Europe, Radisson is also nurturing strong ambitions there. "Poland is an important market for our growth strategy in Europe," says Elie Younes, Director of Global Development...

With Times Square as its backdrop and a skyscraper dedicated entirely to entertainment as its showcase, the Tempo by Hilton brand could not have found a more appropriate setting for its lifestyle concept to make its world debut next year. "Rental, rental, rental": the motto of the group's founder, Conrad Hilton, is being applied again and again...

As Japan reopens its borders to a wider audience, business travellers to Osaka will find a new Mercure hotel from December. To add a fifth hotel in Japan's second-largest city, Accor has teamed up with Japanese hotelier Tokyu Resorts & Stay to create a new Mercure...

Spanish group Meliá Hotels International is expanding its B2B solutions. Through its Meliá PRO programme, the hotelier already offers dedicated packages for companies and event organisers. With the launch of "Meliá PRO Business Traveller: Benefits & Rewards", the group has chosen to target business travellers directly. Melià Hotels turns to...

With 163 establishments offering some 10,700 rooms, Strasbourg's hotel industry is well equipped to meet the demand from trade fair and conference organisers. "Except when the European Parliament is in session, which is generally four to six days a month, but we have a precise calendar for these sessions", confirms...

"Travelling or doing something for the planet, should you choose? After a scorching summer, which was also marked by an unprecedented wave of fires, the theme chosen for the 16th edition of UnivAirPlus was a timely one, without opportunism. "When I chose this topic in January, I didn't know that we were going to be experiencing a summer with...

Over half of business travellers (90%) feel that the hotel industry does not fully meet their needs. A figure that is far from insignificant for the leaders in the accommodation sector, but which could be improved by paying more attention to the expectations... of female business travellers. Since they are the ones we are talking about, and the ones who...

In mid-spring, CDS Groupe announced the acquisition of Rydoo's travel business. What were the reasons for this takeover? Ziad Minkara - When Rydoo Travel & Expense decided to separate itself from its travel business in order to remain focused on expense, we entered into discussions, convinced as we were that...