business hotels

Announced at the beginning of the summer, the arrival in Paris of Accor's new lifestyle brand, Tribe, has now materialised with the opening of Tribe Paris Batignolles. Its location, in a fast-developing district of the French capital, reflects the contemporary concept of the mid-range brand launched last year in Australia. Innovative design, communal areas...

Then, all of a sudden, nothing. "Our hotel, which opened in June 2019, was running at 500 km an hour, and then we had to abruptly cease our activity", sums up Madelijn Vervoord, general manager of the InterContinental Lyon-Hôtel-Dieu. With the announcement of the lockdown, the Académie, the hotel's convention centre which used to host 100 to 120 events a month, was forced to...

In-room offices, coworking spaces: hoteliers are capitalising on the boom in teleworking to offer new solutions to businesses. In this context, the CitizenM chain is banking on a combined fixed-price offer, aimed at companies with frequent travellers, teams spread around the world or looking for an alternative to working from home.

What is the main obstacle to a return to tourism in Asia? Bill Barnett - As in the rest of the world, Asia is faced with crucial choices. There is a collision between health and political imperatives and economic support. As a result, there is very often a conflict...

Long established at Paris CDG airport with a Hyatt Regency, the American group is strengthening its offering near the Paris hub with not one, but two new hotels. Hyatt is combining the long-stay dimension of its Hyatt House hotels with the contemporary, relaxed atmosphere of Hyatt Place, a brand that has been...

Is your new My Wo brand, dedicated to coworking, a response to the current situation in the hotel industry? Olivier Cohn - It's not an idea that just popped out of the box in a few weeks to find new sources of revenue. We started thinking about this a year ago, and this major project has been the driving force behind our...

Updated on 24/09 Coworking has been making inroads into the hotel industry for some time now. Mama Shelter with Mama Works, Ruby Hotels with its WorkSpaces, Hoxton with Working From Hoxton: these groups have new-generation workspaces for mobile executives and freelance professionals. From...

Barely open, already closed. A few months after its inauguration in June 2019, the InterContinental Lyon - Hôtel-Dieu was forced to suspend its activities due to a pandemic. We were going at 500 an hour and had to come to an abrupt halt," says Madelijn Vervoord, the hotel's general manager. The evening we were told we had to close...

Like most hotel groups, NH Hotel is rolling out rethought sanitary protocols in all its hotels. To this end, the Spanish group, now part of Minor Hotels, has teamed up with one of the world's leading certification and inspection companies, the Swiss company SGS, to create the Feel Safe at...

Mama Shelter is adding a thirteenth address with a new hotel in Luxembourg. A destination that might not seem to fit in with the lifestyle positioning of the brand founded by the Trigano family, and which contrasts with the other cities where Mama Shelter is established, such as Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, London, Prague and Paris. And yet......

One - the Radisson Hotel Istanbul Sultanahmet - is more intimate with its 28 rooms, historic ballroom and 19th-century Ottoman-French meeting room. The other, the Radisson Hotel President Beyazit, is more contemporary, with 201 rooms and suites in grey and beige tones, five bars...

Hilton is extending its CleanStay cleanliness programme to the meetings and events sector. Launched in June and developed in partnership with the Mayo Clinic and RB, manufacturer of Lysol and Dettol cleaning products, this global programme, applied by the group's 6,000-plus hotels, is entering a new phase with cleanliness standards...

How did Adagio cope with the period of confinement? Karim Malak - Just over 70% of our aparthotels closed during this period. On a positive note, this also means that 30 % of our residences continued to operate. In towns where we have several establishments, we were unable to...

Now that the recovery has begun after these months of confinement, what is the current status of the Ascott Group's residences in France and Europe? Ngor Houai Lee - We're in the phase of reopening our residences and implementing health protocols. In July, 85 % of our residences in...

Since 8 June, Appart'City has reopened almost a third of its hundred or so apartment hotels in France and Belgium. The other establishments are due to reopen on 26 June. Naturally, this reopening is accompanied by health measures, including more frequent cleaning to disinfect the various areas...

Will the new phase of decontamination announced on Sunday by the French President speed up the recovery of your hotels? Franck Gervais - Today, half of our hotels in France are open. And we're reopening at a significant rate, with 70% of our hotels worldwide expected to have opened by the end of the year.

Updated on 19 June When it reopens on 1 July, the 25Hours Paris Terminus Nord will be offering a concept in France that has already been introduced in Germany by hotels owned by the German chain, which includes Accor among its shareholders. The establishment, located just opposite the Paris train station, will be offering the possibility of using its rooms as...

Given the diversity of protocols put in place by hoteliers to limit the effects of the pandemic, CDS Groupe intends to sort the wheat from the chaff by introducing a "Covid-19 index" within its booking tool. This initiative has a number of aims: to inform travellers, reassure them that they are respecting...

Three weeks after decontamination, do you already feel that business is picking up? Olivier Cohn - It's still rather tentative, but a momentum is building. The recovery is gathering pace week by week. Admittedly, we are still a long way from the booking levels recorded in 2019, since we are only 45% away from what we were doing last year...

With the gradual deconfliction of borders across Europe, the rise of air and rail travel, and the reopening of borders within the Schengen area, the hotel industry is seeing the prospect of a return in business and leisure travel, albeit a slow but expected recovery. And while not all hotels have closed their doors...