business hotels

You've just laid the foundation stone for an Innside hotel at Paris CDG. Why is this brand expanding so rapidly? Enrique Ortiz - In 2006, when we took over Innside, it was a purely German brand. Today it's an international brand. Last year, we opened hotels in New York and Manchester. A number of...

The new wave of hotels owes a great deal to CitizenM. CitizenM, with its establishment opened in 2008 at Amsterdam Schiphol airport, launched this generation of establishments which is flourishing with its limited-sized rooms, offset by vast lobbies filled with long tables d'hôte and designer objects and sofas. The hotel opened in June in Paris, in the...

It was almost a year behind schedule, but it's finally here. In mid-May, Bangkok's latest luxury hotel opened its doors. Located within the Central Embassy luxury boutique complex, the Park Hyatt will redefine the standards of luxury in Bangkok.

The location is no stranger to hotel projects, as the Pullmann Paris Rive-Gauche - formerly the Sofitel Porte de Sèvres - stood in the same spot just next to the Aquaboulevard and not far from the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre, before being demolished. From 7 June, Okko Hotels returns to the...

The bill for business travel is set to be high this year. As we might have feared from the forecasts published in January as part of the HRS Outlook study, business hotel prices are soaring. Sector specialist HRS has just released the results of its Hotel Price Radar survey for the first quarter. They show...

Of course, passengers departing from or arriving at Paris CDG will have to wait until 2019 to walk through the door of the Innside by Melia, but the project began to take shape with the laying of the foundation stone on Thursday 20 April. An important day for the Spanish group Melia...

The hotel, located just a stone's throw from the Société Générale towers, was already a favourite meeting place for executives and business travellers. The Renaissance Paris La Défense intends to be even more so today, now that it has completed its complete renovation. "The establishment needed to be brought up to date, as the last renovation was...

our customers know how to avoid the inconveniences of travelling Who are YotelAir's customers? Hubert Viriot - For the most part, they are very frequent travellers, who are aware of the hazards of travel and know how to avoid these inconveniences. In London Gatwick, for example, low-cost flights generally leave very early in the morning....

Staying in an airport hotel is not, to be honest, the most pleasant prospect for a nomadic executive. It's often a necessary stopover before catching the first flight back to the office in the morning, and sometimes it's a compulsory stopover because of an extended meeting, leaving the last plane to take off without...

The Hilton Group's development in France is no longer focused solely on its flagship brand. Patrick Fitzgibbon, senior vice president of development for Hilton, said: "Growing our portfolio in France is a strategic priority for Hilton. As part of this, the American hotelier's growth strategy now extends to its...

Against a difficult backdrop, the Best Western group is doing better than expected in France. Although the average price of the company's establishments fell by a logical 5.331TP3Q, mainly due to the security risk which penalised France as a destination in 2016, the number of overnight stays generated by the central...

The French hotel industry largely stalled in 2016, hit by the dramatic security situation and, as in all even-numbered years, an unfavourable events calendar with the absence of the Paris Air Show and Vinexpo in Bordeaux. At national level, according to the figures announced by Deloitte In Extenso,...

New home screen, simplified navigation, personalised travel content: Marriott has completely redesigned its Marriott Mobile application, available in English and French in addition to three other languages. Smartphones are now considered indispensable travel companions," said George Corbin, Senior Vice President of Digital at Marriott International....

Less stuffy, more inspiring, the new generation of meeting spaces that are beginning to spring up here and there has a new representative in the shape of Atelier H. After several months' work, the Novotel Paris Les Halles has unveiled a seminar space completely reinvented by designer Jim Hamilton. Covering an area of 600 m², the seven...

The Warwick Hotels group is making its London debut with the acquisition of The Capital hotel in upmarket Knightsbridge and its neighbour, the Hotel Levin. Located on Basil Street, near Hyde Park, these five-star establishments have an intimate, typically British feel. While The Capital has 49 rooms and...

The voluntary Worldhotels chain is to become part of the American Associated Luxury Hotels (ALHI). With a strong focus on business travel, this brand of German origin has 350 top-of-the-range establishments in its membership worldwide, most of them independent hotels or belonging to small groups with a strong local presence, such as...

Don't call it Hilton HHonors any more, just Honors. More than just a name change, the American group's loyalty programme is also reviewing its fundamentals and opening up to new horizons. Among the major changes, from the end of February the 60 million members will be able to combine points and cash to spend on...

Housed in a cylindrical tower designed by Oscar Niemeyer at the end of the 1960s and adorned with gardens designed by Roberto Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro's Hotel Nacional will be restored to its former glory from next March. Bringing new life to this establishment, which has been derelict for almost twenty years,...

Scandic Hotels is strengthening its leadership position in Northern Europe. The Swedish group has been entrusted with the management of a portfolio of eight hotels which will shortly be rebranded under the Scandic name. Two-thirds of these hotels are located in Norway - in Lillehammer, Hafjell, Fagernes and Sorlandet - as well as in Stockholm...

When it opened in early 2015, the Melia La Défense was the first hotel to open in the Paris business district for more than a decade. The development of the hotel offer in La Défense is set to accelerate in the coming years. Supported by the Etablissement public d'aménagement de La Défense Seine Arche (EPADESA), the emphasis this year is on...