business hotels

Continuing its international expansion, Louvre Hotels is preparing to become a major player in India, a key market in Asia, both in terms of the size of its population and its growing economic weight. Europe's second-largest hotel operator - and a subsidiary of China's leading Jin Jiang group - has just announced that it is to take over the Indian...

HRS has announced the integration of a price comparator, called Multisource, into its reservation solution. From now on, each time a search is carried out, the offers proposed by the hotels in the database of this key player in corporate hotel reservations will be compared with those of numerous affiliated partners such as Expedia Affiliate Network, eLong or...

What are your ambitions for the Mövenpick group, which you have taken over as CEO? In today's changing hotel world, you have two options: to be consolidated or to be the consolidator. To maintain our position as a major player, we need to strengthen our international presence. So, without ruling out the possibility of...

We left the heads of the NH group on the other side of the Atlantic, celebrating with great pomp the inauguration of the NH Collection Mexico City Reforma. Now they are back in Spain, for a return to 'domestic' business that is not lacking in lustre. The Iberian group's top-of-the-range brand is adding two new hotels to its portfolio...

Do you consider the launch of NH Collection in America to be the most important step in the brand's history? Ramón Aragonés - Yes, we launched this Collection two years ago, and now the brand is going global. This is very important, not least because this is a region with very high potential in terms of accommodation. Other hotels...

Oscar and Kris, the proprietors of the small "Dulce mezcal... y café" shop, didn't quite understand the fuss surrounding the adjoining hotel last Wednesday: red carpet, sound and light system, and some 300 guests in gala dress were the order of the day on Calle Liverpool, right in the heart of Mexico City's business district. The...

Hotel Jen, Shangri-La's lifestyle and high-tech brand, will be opening in Beijing in January, in Tower B of the China World Trade Centre, which is currently being completed. In addition to its 450 designer rooms, the hotel will offer a very contemporary range of services, including a business centre, a...

"Show me your smartphone and I'll tell you what kind of business traveller you are"... That's the gist of this new study published by the GBTA Foundation, which explores the relationship between hotel chains, new technologies and business travel. What emerges is that mobile applications remain essential for mobile professionals. A comfortable majority of business travellers...

Celebrating the romantic era of fine travel, that of the 1970s, when Air France launched its Le Méridien hotel chain: the Starwood group, which acquired this brand ten years ago, has decided to give it back the sophisticated spirit of its origins. The new positioning, which has already been adopted by two thirds of the 104...

A turning point in its history. That's how Warwick Hotels International describes its name change to Warwick Hotels & Resorts, combined with a new visual identity that shifts from beige and burgundy to a contemporary cameo of purple, black, white and gold. The logo -...