business hotels

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...

And that's ten for Okko Hotels. The lifestyle and business brand has reached the milestone of ten establishments with the addition of a new address in the heart of Toulon, briefly unveiled before the lock-up, but which opens its doors in full on 2 June. For business travellers passing through the Var, the location...

The metamorphosis of a major business hotel at the heart of a district that is itself in the process of being completely transformed: the transformation of the Pullman Montparnasse, which began in late summer 2017 and is now nearing completion, is part of a vast urban project led by Unibail-Rodamco. A legacy of the 1970s, the Gaîté block is in the midst of a...

Accor, Hilton and Marriott as well as B&B Hotels had already announced their share of sanitary initiatives to tackle the upturn in the best possible conditions; some by working towards a label for their establishments, others by enacting a global programme and, finally, by launching a world cleanliness council. Other groups are now joining in...

Following in the footsteps of Marriott, Accor and B&B Hotels, it is now Hilton's turn to announce its set of sanitation measures required for the resumption of operations. To build these standards of cleanliness designed to reassure customers and guarantee the safety of staff, the hotel group has teamed up with a supplier - RB, manufacturer...

Will the expected decontamination on 11 May immediately result in the reopening of the hotels? Philippe Marguet - The hotels already need to be open. There's a lot of vagueness at the moment. They say that decontamination will start on 11 May, but that cafés, restaurants and hotels will remain closed until further notice....