business hotels

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...

Lifestyle hotels seem to be finding an increasingly natural place in the La Défense business district. CitizenM was a forerunner, setting up in 2017 near the Grande Arche and La Défense Arena, and will soon be joined, in mid-June, by an Okko hotel. At the other end of the district, towards...

A few weeks ago, the Hilton Group inaugurated the Hilton Garden Inn Bengaluru Embassy Manyata Business Park, with a catalogue of 353 rooms. Far from marking the culmination of the hotel group's ambitions in Bangalore, this opening paved the way for a wider project, specifically targeting the business clientele, a segment of the hotel industry that is...

Business travellers to Central Asia will find a number of new places to stay as they wander around. Among them, a Novotel Living establishment has just opened its doors in Almaty. Its opening had been announced since the end of last year, with the opening of an ibis Almaty Jetisu in the former capital of...

JW Marriott is continuing to expand in the world's major cities. By 2025, the American group's premium brand has announced its intention to open a hotel in Tokyo, with 200 rooms and a MICE area of almost 1,000 m2. The hotel will be located in a new building complex, the result of the redevelopment of the former railway depot...

A few days after announcing the acquisition of Rydoo's Travel business, CDS Group is strengthening its core corporate hotel booking business by opening up to Amadeus Value Hotels content. The aggregator developed by Amadeus represents a range of more than 500,000 establishments around the world, which travel agencies will now be able to...

After Porto in May 2021, Lisbon will soon have a Yotel establishment. Known for its innovative hotels, combining small, high-tech rooms with designer communal areas, the brand initially developed in airport areas is continuing its urban expansion. After Geneva and London this year, Yotel will be setting up in the Portuguese capital in 2024, with a...

At the International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF), the Radisson Group discussed its ambitious development objectives in the Europe-Middle East-Africa region and the Asia-Pacific zone. Buoyed by a year 2021 described as "the most successful in the company's history in terms of new hotel signings", the hotelier intends to keep up the momentum....

The results for the first quarter of 2022 presented by Accor confirm the relatively limited effect of the Omicron variant on the recovery in hotel activity seen since last summer. Like most players in the sector, the French group has seen a steady recovery in revenue per room (RevPAR) since the second quarter of 2021. And the damage caused...

The London borough of Stratford, which took pride of place during the 2012 Olympic Games, is seeing its hotel offer strengthened. Following the opening of an Adagio aparthotel in spring 2021, two Hyatt Group brands have set up in East London, within the Westfield Stratford City shopping complex. Two hotels under the same roof, but with different...

Launched at the end of 2020, the Radisson Individuals brand is continuing to grow thanks to the attraction of the support of a major hotel group for independent hotel owners. While its announced expansion in Russia, with around ten hotels in the pipeline, has been postponed to a later date, the brand recently opened its first hotel in Africa, in Accra, Ghana,...

Following its opening in Zurich in November 2021, Ruby Hotels has set up shop in Switzerland's other major business metropolis, Geneva. The German chain, which advocates lean luxury, is continuing its international expansion with an establishment on the left bank of the Rhône, in the heart of the...

Along with London, Paris is citizenM's favourite destination. These two major cities together account for almost a third of the thirty or so establishments offered worldwide by the pioneering lifestyle hotel brand. With 11 new hotels planned between now and 2023, the Dutch-based brand will be adding its own brand to its portfolio of...

In the bull's eye. Marriott International has just passed the 1,000 hotel mark in the Europe - Middle East - Africa (EMEA) region. The American group has chosen an emblematic destination, London, to celebrate this major milestone. Now open, the Westin London City, close to the River Thames and the financial heart of the capital...

With long-haul travel still at half-mast and business travel at a moderato tempo, the Pullman Paris Montparnasse would no doubt have been satisfied with a more favourable context for its return to business. However, the management of this 900-room hotel, which caters for international customers and corporate events, doesn't seem to be...