business hotels

Marriott's lifestyle brand Moxy is continuing to expand in France. After Lille recently and Paris some time ago - at Bastille and Roissy-CDG - the brand is adding a new address in Bordeaux. For the occasion, this lively design chain has found a location to match its image, the Bassins...

A brand new Sheraton has reopened its doors in Istanbul, in the Levent business district. Recently renovated, the hotel embodies the ongoing transformation of this historic business travel brand. This new approach is embodied by a design accent, lively lobbies around a café-bar-market but adapted to mobile working, rooms...

Already well established in Eastern Europe, Accor has a number of projects underway in the region. Recently, in Poland, the Wiazowna Brant hotel joined the Mercure family, a brand which already has around twenty hotels in the country. Situated near Warsaw, in the natural setting of the Masovian Landscape Park, this complex opened its doors...

Yotel was originally known to travellers for its cabin hotels located in the immediate vicinity of major airports such as Amsterdam Schiphol, Istanbul, London Heathrow and Gatwick, Paris CDG and Singapore Changi. So many places to rest for a few hours before an early morning take-off or between two connecting flights. But as the...

While health passes and digital certificates are being issued in response to the demands of the pandemic, some countries are planning to go further in digitising identity documents. This is particularly the case in Germany, which launched its "Digital identities" project in December 2020, on the initiative of six federal authorities...

One of the major developments in your group is the launch of a new brand, Radisson Individuals, in the style of collections launched by other hotel groups before you. What are your objectives with this brand? V. S. - We launched this brand in October 2020, with a dozen new signings announced at the same time. These include...

Okko Hotels is adding a new address in France, its eleventh, with the opening of the Okko Lille at the beginning of May. To make its debut in the capital of northern France, the upmarket, business-focused brand has moved into a flagship development in the city, at 31, rue de Béthune. This complex is the result of the...

Hilton is expanding its range of brands in Paris with its first Canopy hotel, a lifestyle brand that now has around thirty hotels worldwide. This move comes ahead of the arrival in the summer of another of the American group's brands, the Tapestry by Hilton collection, with the openings of the Belgrand Hôtel Paris Champs Elysées and the Hôtel Camille...

Of course, the impact of the pandemic is weighing on the results of hotel groups, which are all expected to fall in the first quarter of 2021. However, with a gradual improvement in demand in certain markets, notably the United States, China and Dubai, the horizon seems to be slowly clearing. Christopher Nassetta, Hilton's CEO, said that he was...

It would be hard to find a hotel brand better suited to business travel than InterCity Hotels. In its development, it focuses on hotels that are always within walking distance of the city's train station or airport. This is a logical direction for this mid-range 'plus' brand, which was launched in 1987 by Deutsche Bahn in...

The fall was inevitable and will come as no surprise to anyone. In 2020, the Best Western network in France recorded an unprecedented drop in sales of -52.4 %, following a record performance in 2019. The causes are well known: a pandemic which, through confinements and border closures, triggered a series of...

How have your West African hotels coped with the Covid 19 crisis? Daniel Karbownik - From April 2020, we were initially affected because the European, American and Asian outbound markets were closing. A lot of hotels were closed and there was absolutely no traffic. But from July onwards, we...

Already one of the best represented groups in Australia, Accor is set to expand its offering in Melbourne with, among other things, a Mövenpick due to open in May. The brand's second Australian establishment after the one in Hobart, this future top-of-the-range hotel is located at the junction of two of the main thoroughfares in the capital of...

Zurich's new business spot is expanding rapidly, attracting international business travellers. Two weeks after celebrating the opening of its thousandth hotel, Hyatt has inaugurated the Hyatt Regency Zurich Airport The Circle, the brand's first representative in Switzerland. The hotel has 255 rooms, including 16 suites. On the restaurant front, the new...

With the rise of new working habits spawned by the pandemic, the trend towards coworking is gathering pace in the hotel industry. In France, following in the footsteps of Accor and its subsidiary Wojo, and Best Western and its MyWO solution, Logis Hotels is now moving into this niche with a strong ambition: to become, no more and no less, the...

The Wyndham group, one of the world's largest franchisors, is extending its Trademark Collection in Europe with the opening of a new establishment in Brussels, expected in March. The Hôtel Avenue Louise Brussels, located just off the Belgian capital's main shopping street and easily accessible from the Gare du Midi station, has been selected as one of the...

If you had to find a beneficiary of the current crisis within an otherwise devastated tourism sector, the long-stay hotel industry would undoubtedly be that one. With a higher occupancy rate than the traditional hotel sector, this segment has demonstrated its resilience, with its self-catering flats better suited to periods of confinement as well as...

Combining face-to-face and remote meetings, hybrid meetings are both the present and the future of business meetings. They are a response to companies' current needs, between health security and the need to maintain business relationships. But it's also a solution that looks to the future, with the prospect of business travel being limited to what's necessary,...

On the eve of its 70th birthday, the Holiday Inn brand is still going strong. While this IHG Group brand has 1,248 hotels worldwide, its budget version Holiday Inn Express is growing fast, with more than 2,900 hotels open and more than 680 hotels planned in the next few years....

Hyatt has just passed the 1,000-hotel mark worldwide with the opening of Alila Napa Valley, a 68-room luxury resort surrounded by vineyards and located in the heart of the Beringer estate. The American group will continue to expand in 2021, notably through the growth of its lifestyle brands, which have been acquired...