business hotels

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....

The Covid-19 pandemic has presented the tourism sector with a health challenge, so that it can get back to business under the right conditions. To this end, while others are working on labels, the Marriott hotel group has created the Global Cleanliness Council, focused on developing a new generation of cleanliness standards and...

An unprecedented crisis calls for an exceptional situation: two-thirds of Accor hotels will be closed in the coming weeks. Already, with much of the world in a state of lockdown, almost half of the French group's 5,000 or so establishments around the world are closed. The current crisis has imposed other measures to...

How would you describe the current situation? T. E. - It's unprecedented. I've been using that word a lot in recent weeks, but that's really what it is: what's happening today is absolutely unprecedented in the hotel sector. Of course, there are cycles in every industry, and the hotel business has had its share of difficult moments...

Is the current situation in the hotel industry unprecedented in its scale? O. P. - Not only has it never happened before, but I never imagined that one day it would even happen. We've already seen cycles with major downturns. For example, the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015 led to a drop of...

Between containment measures, closed borders and airline blackouts, some hotels are starting to suspend operations. As was the case in Macau a few weeks ago, Las Vegas casino hotels went on standby yesterday. While the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore hotels will close their doors for a fortnight...

2019 was an extremely positive year for Best Western, both globally and in France. On a global scale, the hotel group, which has 4035 hotels in total, including 417 new affiliates in 2019, saw sales generated by the central reservation system rise by 17.4 1TP3Q. In France, despite...

Colour, light, a clever cultural melting pot with works combining Indian mandalas, the Mexican 'calavera' and the Japanese cherry blossom: nhow Amsterdam RAI, which has just opened its doors, aims to be a meeting place where contemporary art, design, gastronomy and cultural expression echo the multicultural spirit...

Réunion will soon have a Radisson hotel in the heart of Saint-Denis. The top-of-the-range brand has announced the acquisition of a property located just a stone's throw from the commercial and financial district of the French overseas department's capital. Opposite the Promenade, between the old town and the main motorway, the hotel is also just a stone's throw...

The 3,000th hotel is a symbolic milestone, illustrating Accor's leadership position in Europe, where the group now has 340,000 rooms in 39 countries, representing half of its global portfolio. By way of comparison, Marriott International, the world's leading hotel group, has only...

Aparthotels Adagio has increased its number of openings in 2019. Palaiseau Saclay in January 2019, Montpellier Centre the following month, both in the economy access range, then Lille Centre Grand Place and Paris Nation in the second half of the year for its Adagio brand: the long-stay brand co-owned by Accor and Pierre&Vacances has extended its footprint in...

List from memory, and above all without too many mistakes, all the brands belonging to Marriott International. Then list the brands that make up the Accor group. Finally, list the latest concepts launched by Hyatt, Hilton and IHG. Clearly, this is not an easy task, given that the hotel industry is currently experiencing a groundswell of activity: a...

Birds squabbling in the branches, an early-morning breeze, a few blades of grass caught between the pages of a corporate presentation, and your mind starts to wander... All of a sudden, these creative, designer seminar rooms, as they are done today in hotels in the...

As part of the inauguration of the Crowne Plaza Paris République coworking spaces, the IHG Group hotel chain questioned 2,000 French full-time employees about their expectations in terms of flexible working. It turns out that 70% of the employees surveyed "aspire to a wider choice of flexible working environments"...

Even in the age of almost everything digital, meeting people is just as important as before, if not more so. "Reality is a basic human need in an increasingly high-tech world": this is the conclusion of the Swedish firm Memoori, which specialises in intelligent buildings, and which emphasised the importance of human contact in a study dating back to...

Brussels has its classics: the famous Steigenberger on Avenue Louise and the Amigo near the Grand Place, one of its most luxurious establishments and a member of the Leading Hotels of the World. But unlike other capitals, Brussels prefers to take its time rather than opening one new restaurant after another. Sometimes it even opts...