business hotels

Lifestyle and design with the Mama Shelter and Seekoo, prestige with the InterContinental or, in a more intimate style, the Hôtel de Sèze and the Palais Gallien, more economical solutions or dedicated to long stays: with over 11,000 rooms and 210 hotels in Bordeaux, business travellers and participants...

Quartier Euratlantique Hilton Garden Inn Bordeaux Centre With the MECA as its neighbour, the Hilton Garden Inn has been part of the future of the Euratlantique district since 2018. Close to the headquarters of numerous companies, the American group's mid-range hotel is naturally geared towards a business clientele, while being ideally positioned for leisure travellers.

40 new residences to be opened by 2021 by the world leader in extended-stay hotels, Ascott Limited, and 10 new addresses by Adagio Aparthotels, the leading player in this segment in Europe: the extended-stay specialists continued to show strong growth momentum last year. And this despite a period that was not very conducive to...

Continuing its expansion in Europe and around the world, 25hours will be opening a new hotel in Copenhagen in mid-March. This brings to 14 the number of establishments for this lifestyle chain, which was launched in Germany in 2005 and has been an Accor partner since 2016, with the French group owning 50% of its capital and having integrated 25hours into...

Lifestyle, luxury and a host of new destinations: 2022 is shaping up to be another productive year for the Accor group, despite business still being affected by the consequences of the pandemic. "With more than 300 hotels and resorts ready to open this year, our many loyal customers around the world are...

Ultra-urban locations, lively communal spaces, a design bias and innovative accommodation solutions: with its new Motto by Hilton brand, the eponymous American group is delivering its way of thinking about lifestyle at a light price. Introduced in 2018, the brand made its grand debut in Washington in the summer of 2020, then in...

Luxury, tropical vegetation galore, art and design, exclusive event spaces: Rosewood, owner of the Crillon in Paris, is marking its arrival in São Paulo in style. The luxury brand has set up shop in the heart of Brazil's main business metropolis, close to Avenida Paulista. And yet...

With the fifth wave sweeping across France and Europe, how do you see 2022? Eric Viale - I'm approaching this year with cautious optimism, but with confidence. The good thing is that we now have the lessons to learn and the best practices to apply, in addition to scientific advances and vaccination efforts. We have...

After recently opening in Milan and Seville, the Radisson Collection has just arrived in Berlin, in the heart of the Mitte district. To make its debut in the German capital, Radisson's luxury brand has taken up residence in one of the group's existing hotels, famous in particular for its AquaDom, an immense cylindrical aquarium rising from the...

Tourism professionals in the US state of Massachusetts have long complained that they receive insufficient funding compared to other destinations. According to the Boston Globe, 7.5 million dollars were distributed last year to support local tourism marketing agencies. A figure far too low to reposition...

Marriott has announced that it expects to open a JW Marriott in Sao Paulo in the second quarter of 2022. Located along the Avenida Nações Unidas, within the LEED-certified Parque da Cidade complex, this future luxury hotel will replace another, as it will take up residence within the walls of the former Four Seasons, which opened in 2018...

It will undoubtedly be some time before business travellers can enjoy the luxury of the new Mandarin Oriental, which opens in Shenzhen on 20 January, as business travel in China is still complex. Nevertheless, the luxury group has made the journey from its headquarters in Hong Kong...

Portugal remains one of Europe's most popular destinations for both leisure and business travellers. In fact, the country benefited from the authorities' relative flexibility in welcoming international visitors during the Covid pandemic. It has also benefited from the transfer of leisure travellers to the destination with the closure of destinations...

Or how to start the year on the right foot. On 1 January, the Hilton Group inaugurated a new luxury hotel under the Conrad brand right in the heart of Shanghai. Located in Puxi, the historic waterfront of the Chinese megalopolis, the hotel is housed in a 66-storey tower overlooking People's Square....

"It was with great pleasure that Sébastien Bazin and I welcomed our first customer this morning to the opening of the new Pullman Paris Montparnasse": Maud Bailly, Accor's Managing Director for Southern Europe, announced on LinkedIn on 27 December the completion of a long and vast project that began at the end of...

The Curio Collection by Hilton brand has just restored the prestige of an emblematic Cologne hotel, housed in the immense water tower rising almost 30 metres into the heart of the Rhine city. The building dates back to the 1870s, but was damaged during the Second World War and had long been...

Without making any predictions about the weeks ahead and the consequences of the accelerated rate of infection, the recovery of the hotel industry in Europe is well under way. Admittedly, the recovery has taken longer on this continent than elsewhere. In the first nine months of 2021, hotel occupancy stood at 40 %, compared with 56 %...

With a large number of hotels on both sides of the Atlantic, how is the Barcelo Group's hotel business developing? Raùl Gonzàlez - The situation is very different depending on the region. If we look at Mexico and the Caribbean, our hotels are doing very well. The figures are identical to those for 2019 and, for some of them,...

Poland remains the darling of investors in general and hotel chains in particular. The country has one of the best economic performances in the European Union. In 2019, GDP grew by 4.7% compared with 1.6% in the rest of the Union. Last year, GDP did fall as a result of the pandemic. But the...

The citizenM brand has just given more details of its plan to open new hotels in 2022. The six hotels that will be added next year to its portfolio of 24 hotels in 16 major cities around the world had all already been announced, but now it was time to find out more about what they will offer. While the pioneering lifestyle hotel chain in...