business hotels

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...

MKG Consulting has just published its ranking of the world's top 10 hotel groups, still largely dominated by Marriott International, which has passed the 1.4 million rooms mark. Despite the difficulties encountered by all the hotel groups last year, this top 10 ranking continues to show strong growth momentum, with the number of rooms...

The Radisson Blu Rouen Centre has opened in the heart of the city, not far from the train station and close to its famous cathedral and the pedestrian district that criss-crosses the historic centre of the Norman city. "With this opening, we are further strengthening our position as the leading international hotel group in the region, with 20...

Week after week, hybrid events are taking a little more shape within hotel groups. Following on from Marriott's announcement a few days ago of details of the roll-out of its Connect with Confidence programme in North America, and Accor's announcement of the All Connect hybrid meeting concept in...

The long-stay Residence Inn by Marriott brand is part of a vast urban project in Copenhagen, namely the ongoing revitalisation of the Nordhavn district - or North Harbour in English. What was once a harbour and industrial district is evolving into a contemporary and sustainable place to live, with restaurants and cafés, a...

As part of its Connect with Confidence programme presented at the end of last year, Marriott is gradually sketching out the contours of the hybrid meeting solutions that will be offered within the group's hotels, initially in the United States and Canada from March 2021, before being extended worldwide. Technology...

Innside by Melia, the Spanish group's lifestyle brand, will be making its debut in Madrid early next spring. Everything is in place to make this new hotel a trendy spot in the Spanish capital: its location on Madrid's main thoroughfare, Gran Via, and its proximity to one of the city's most fashionable districts,...