business hotels

Monday 1 August saw the Accor group launch the Pullman brand in the West Bay business district of Doha. A new address that will be ready for the next major sporting event that is fast approaching: "We have had the wonderful opportunity to open the first Pullman hotel and to present the new Pullman brand to...

Following on from the new generation of Jo&Joe youth hostels, another Accor brand is preparing to make a major leap forward in China. While 1,300 Jo&Joe hotels are planned for this vast market in the medium term, 400 Mövenpick hotels are also expected to go there, as part of a master franchise agreement with...

"Meet-Work-Stay": the Postillion Hotels concept perfectly sums up the ultra-business positioning of the Dutch hotelier. A group that stands out for its truly integrated MICE destinations combining accommodation and vast conference centres, as demonstrated by the recent opening of the Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre in The Hague. This new venue for business meetings, almost...

The towers of La Défense may be less crowded than in the pre-covid era, but the business district's hotel scene has been busy this year. After Mama Shelter in March, and Tribe in May - two Accor group brands that set up shop on the Esplanade and Pont de Neuilly...

Banque Scalbert-Dupont was one of Northern France's historic financial institutions before it was nationalised and then incorporated into the CIC network in the 1980s. Its former head office, which is part of Lille's heritage and was built in the late 1920s by local architect Jean Delrue, is about to change function. The...

Updated 29 June After recently handing over its operations in the United States and the whole of the American continent to Choice Hotels, the Radisson group is making no secret of its ambitions in another part of the world: Asia. It is even aiming for growth of 400 % in the coming years. In other words, from...

More than ever the leader in the Scandinavian hotel industry with over 280 hotels, the Scandic group is reaffirming its pre-eminent position in the region with the opening in Copenhagen of its largest hotel to date, the Scandic Spectrum. Located in the centre of the Danish capital, on the seafront, the hotel offers...

A whole month: that will probably be enough time to avoid going to Qatar. Except with the very strong motivation of attending a football World Cup match. The event, organised by FIFA, runs from 21 November to 18 December. It's not going to be easy, though, as...

Accor will soon be offering two extended-stay hotels in Istanbul under the Mövenpick Living brand. At a time when the French group is gradually extending the 'extended stay' versions of its hotel brands - Novotel Living and Pullman Living, among others - the French hotelier will be adding two new addresses as part of one of the major projects currently under way...

The Hilton group has just passed the milestone of 100 hotels in Turkey, both in operation and planned. This comes more than 65 years after the opening of its first hotel outside the United States, the Istanbul Hilton, now renamed the Istanbul Bosphorus. The American group already has 25 hotels in Turkey's main metropolis...

While the United States has just lifted the last of its health restrictions by dropping the requirement for a negative test on entry to the country, travellers to New York will find the hotel scene in full swing. Of course, the pandemic has been fatal to some of the city's flagship establishments, such as the Gramercy...

Hotel groups are loving the round numbers this year. While Marriott, the world's leading group, passed the 8,000 hotels worldwide mark last March, IHG Hotels & Resorts has just reached the 6,000 mark. This milestone was duly celebrated on the New York Stock Exchange, where the...

The Radisson group is continuing its expansion in Africa, and in South Africa in particular. At the end of May, the upmarket Radisson Blu brand set up shop in Juba, South Sudan, with a 154-room hotel featuring large meeting areas. It has also just opened in one of the main cities to the south of the country...

Staycity, the long-stay brand, will be opening a new aparthotel in the La Défense district of Paris on 13 June. Located near the Neuilly bridge, on the Courbevoie side, the establishment offers 216 studios and one-bed flats, which can accommodate up to four people. All have kitchenettes and are equipped with...

The rise of coworking in Accor hotels is not limited to Europe, where almost 400 hotels already have Wojo spaces. Also deployed in 150 establishments in Latin America, their expansion will now continue on the African continent. "This is a strategic step in our development", says Stéphane Bensimon, CEO of Wojo. At this...

No one can bet that the French team will retain their title of world football champions. But one thing is certain, as the competition draws to a close in Qatar at the end of the year, visitors to the emirate will find little hints of France. Particularly at the heart of a vast luxury complex named after the chic...

Edinburgh's convention centre intends to take its future into its own hands. After the city's convention bureau ceased operations in 2020, initially on a temporary basis, the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) has reached an agreement with the Scottish capital's authorities to take over the management and running of the centre. And this...

One by one, the voco brand is completing its network of the world's major cities. After Doha, Seoul and Johannesburg in recent months, as well as Milan, the contemporary brand of the IHG group has added new addresses around the world, starting with a new establishment in Italy, in Venice. Comprising top-of-the-range hotels with...

The French Best Western network is offering a new hotel just a few minutes from Porte de Versailles and the exhibition centre, as well as the Palais des Arts et des Congrès in Issy-les-Moulineaux. In fact, it is in this town near Paris that the hotel is located, at 11 bis Avenue Jean Jaures, offering business travellers...

To become nothing less than one of the most sought-after conference hotels in Germany, if not Europe. Expected to open at the end of the year, the Munich Marriott Hotel City West is clearly setting out its ambitions. These ambitions are based on concrete elements, with a plethora of facilities to host professional meetings. Newly built in the up-and-coming...