business hotels

"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...

The Radisson Hotel Group is stepping up the development of its new Radisson Individuals brand in one of its key markets, Russia. Already boasting a network of 47 hotels in operation or under development - making it the leading international hotel operator in the country - Radisson is building on this base to extend the brand's...

Accor will be offering two hotels in Conakry by 2024, under the Novotel brand and its long-stay variant Novotel Living. Until now, the French group, one of the leading hotel groups in Africa, has not yet had a presence in the Republic of Guinea, and will therefore be adding a new destination on the continent. "This project marks not only the introduction of the...

It's more of a groundswell than a simple fashion or trend. The vegetarian/vegan (vegan) segment is growing every day, attracting more and more followers. A study by smartproteinproject.eu, financed by the European Union, estimates that 37% of European consumers are now flexitarians, pescetarians (fish and seafood eaters), vegetarians...

Anantara has added two major European cities in quick succession: Budapest and Rome. Owned by the Thai group Minor, this luxury brand originally focused on resorts is extending its urban dimension by setting out to conquer Europe, a move made possible by Minor's acquisition of the Spanish group NH Hotels....

After stopping off in Paris in September for a new hotel on the Champs Elysées, citizenM is continuing its expansion across the Atlantic. The budget lifestyle brand has just opened its first hotel in San Francisco, in the Union Square district. This is the group's second opening in California this year, following the one in Los Angeles...

With their "home-from-home" accommodation and flats with fully-equipped kitchens, urban residences are ideally suited to changing working patterns. Not just to the trend towards longer stays, but also to the needs of teleworkers who have moved away from the big cities and need to return...

What does the reopening of the United States to international travellers mean for an American hotel group? David Kelly - The reopening of American borders is a key moment for the economic recovery of our sector. We are delighted to be able to welcome our international guests back to our hotels across the Atlantic. Since...

Mama Shelter is proving popular in southern European cities. After opening in Rome last October, the lifestyle brand will be setting up in Lisbon on 12 January. For this Portuguese foray, Mama Shelter has found an address in the heart of the capital, Rua do Vale de Pereiro, close to the emblematic...

Has the pandemic put the brakes on your ambitions? Françoise Houdebine - We didn't fall asleep during the crisis, far from it. In fact, we took advantage of it to introduce a number of concepts that we hope will be successful in the future. This spirit of innovation is inspired by a body called the Global Innovation Center, a...

Like other travel sectors such as air and rail, the global hotel industry is gradually returning to levels of activity that, while not reaching those of 2019, are well above those recorded last year. The results recently published by Accor, IHG and Hilton all bear witness to this marked recovery, and there can be no doubt that those published...

Adagio made its debut in Lyon in October. Following on from Suresnes, London and Zurich, this new development by the aparthotel brand is located in the fast-growing Confluence business district. Located close to Lyon Perrache station, at 50 cours Charlemagne, the hotel residence offers a range of facilities for business travellers as well as...

Following the opening of a luxurious Pan Pacific at the beginning of September, in a new skyscraper overlooking the reinvented Bishopsgate Square, the City of London has just welcomed a Canopy by Hilton hotel, marking the brand's debut in the UK. Once again, this is a contemporary urban project, called Minories, which includes the conversion of an office building...

The Radisson Group is doing more than offsetting the organisation of meetings and events in these hotels. In more than 400 hotels in its portfolio, it even intends to make their carbon footprint negative through its "Carbon Negative. Planet Positive" initiative. For meetings booked between 18 October 2021 and 31 January 2022 and taking place in the...

Combo" projects are definitely in vogue at Accor. Having just revealed the opening of a combined ibis and ibis budget hotel at London Heathrow, the French group has now unveiled another project involving two of the group's brands, this time in Zurich. For this project in the Swiss business metropolis, the combination is not...