business hotels

"Companies need solutions that accept all forms of payment. On the one hand, to be able to reconcile data on all hotel expenditure and, on the other, to simplify the payment of overnight stays. Because, as legend has it, not all travellers have a corporate card. Frequent travellers do, but not those who...

"Corporate is the most important segment for our group. So our aim is to cover 100 % of business travellers' expectations. We have a sales department dedicated to large companies, which negotiates preferential rates with them, as well as dynamic rates, in a wide choice of hotels ranging from economy to top-of-the-range....

"At the end of the day, it's the traveller who decides. But travellers tend to want to find the same booking experience, the best prices and the same exhaustive content in the professional world as in B2C. The idea is to provide them with all this, but in an organised way. Our platform deduplicates the different sources of content...

While hotel reservations are now largely automated, the same is far from true for an important component of the business: meetings and seminars. The day we get there, it will be a big step forward," says Paul-Édouard Le Bret of Louvre Hotels. But, for the moment, it's still...

Complex, fragmented, disrupted... the corporate hotel reservation market has been thoroughly shaken up in recent years. Whether through the rise of online travel agencies - the famous OTAs such as Expedia and Booking - or the emergence of specialist platforms such as HRS and HCorpo. Just 10-15 years ago,...

Will business travellers one day miss the envelope carefully prepared by their assistant containing the step-by-step roadmap of their trip, including plane tickets and hotel reservations? In any case, this famous envelope will soon no longer exist. Because the assistant in question will be virtual. Intelligent agents, chatbots, robotic concierges... Artificial intelligence,...

Known for its high-tech capsule hotels, Yotel will be adding a second hotel in New York to the one it opened near Times Square in 2010. This time, the brand will not be setting up in Manhattan, but on Long Island, in an area of rapid high-tech development that will soon be home to Amazon's new headquarters. With 178 booths...

At the beginning of December, InterCity, the business brand of German group Deutsche Hospitality, opened its new flagship in Frankfurt, where the upmarket chain was born 30 years ago. Located on the south side of the main railway station, it is ideally situated for business travellers, especially as the exhibition centre...

This is undoubtedly one of the biggest data hacks to date, a far cry from Yahoo and its 3 billion accounts attacked in August 2013, but ahead of the 427 million passwords stolen from the MySpace social network: Marriott revealed on Friday that it had hacked into a database that could contain the information of almost...

With a presence on every continent and almost 550 hotels and resorts in 53 countries, the Thai group Minor Hotels has changed scale by taking over almost all the shares - 94.1 % - in NH Hotels. While the recent acquisition of the Spanish group does not change anything in practice for the moment, this investment of...

In the same way that the major hotel groups are playing the consolidation card, the key players in the independent hotel sector are strengthening their offerings. Logis, Europe's leading network with 2,200 hotel-restaurants, most of them located in rural areas, intends to strengthen its presence in French towns and cities. To this end, the voluntary chain...

Eldorado, a new land to conquer, the continent of tomorrow... There is no shortage of eulogistic terms to illustrate the confidence in Africa's future. A promising future that is attracting ever more business travellers and, in a snowball effect, requiring ever more hotels to accommodate them. The major business brands are not failing to seize these opportunities...

Radisson Blu in Bamako, Splendid hotel in Ouagadougou, Grand Bassam seaside resort: the African hotel industry has recently paid a heavy price for international terrorism. So, as the issue of security takes on ever greater importance in the corporate world, the question of choosing a hotel is, perhaps more so in Africa...

Why is Africa a priority for most hotel groups? Olivier Jacquin - Demographically and economically, Africa will be a major continent, with more than 2.5 billion inhabitants by 2050. One in four people will live in Africa. This opens up huge opportunities in all sectors of the economy.

On a Friday evening, the cars speed along Sanlitun Road. Ultra-fashionable young people are being dropped off in front of the new restaurants opening one after the other in the most sought-after district of the moment. This is the epicentre of modern Beijing, where the InterContinental Sanlitun opened at the end of 2016, in an extravagant tower looking...

Long layovers, plane delays, last-minute cancellations of appointments: the journey of business travellers is punctuated by hazards that can be a source of stress and reduced productivity. In these conditions, more than one mobile professional has no doubt wished to enjoy the comfort of a hotel room instead of wandering from hotel lobby to airport lounge to consult...

It's been in the making ever since Marriott International acquired Starwood Hotels in 2016: the loyalty programmes of these two major groups have now become one. Bringing together the millions of members of Starwood Preferred Guest and Marriott Rewards was even one of the main reasons for this mega-acquisition, in order to effectively combat...

With its beautiful resorts established in the middle of a tea plantation in China, in the heart of a fort in India, at the top of the mountains of Oman, on the edge of the luxuriant beaches of the Maldives or Bali and more recently on the edge of the Pacific, at Big Sur in California, Alila has become the specialist in intimate and...

Louvre Hotels is tripling its stake in Africa. The hotel group has announced the creation of a complex in Casablanca. It will open in September and include 124 Première Classe rooms, 189 keys for the Campanile establishment and 98 rooms under the Kyriad banner. This 2,300 m² facility will bring together three of the Group's brands in a single location,...

Discover new destinations, meet new people and get away from the office. These are the priorities of French business travellers, as revealed by the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) study on French perceptions of business travel, published on 2 July. While the 500 travellers surveyed would like to travel more often (28 %), this would not be...