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Updated on 7 January at 10.00am. Auvergne - Rhône - Alpes Spark by Hilton Lyon Eurexpo (February) Spark by Hilton, a new brand launched by the American group at the top end of the economy segment, will continue to expand its network in France this year. It first appeared in Lyon in mid-summer 2025, with two hotels on the...

Updated on 2/02 at 10:30 Paris Banke Opéra Paris, A Radisson Collection Hotel (autumn) While continuing with its plans to move into rue de Rivoli, the Radisson Collection brand will be opening its first hotel in Paris this year, a stone's throw from the Opera and Galeries Lafayette. And it's all thanks to a choice acquisition: the...

Alice Mafaity, who now oversees the 13 Hyatt hotels in France as Vice President France and also manages the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile hotel at Porte Maillot, travelled the world before returning to France to join the American group. Her international career, always with major groups, has given her the...

The B&B Hotels group is continuing its expansion into long-stay accommodation. Launched in the summer of 2024 in Saint-Ouen, its B&B Home brand has since set up in the mountains, in Brides-les-Bains, as well as near Caen station, while taking a diversion to the West Indies with an establishment in Fort-de-France. As the year draws to a close, the...

Luxury from every angle. The only five-star hotel with a pied-à-terre on the world's most famous avenue, the Paris Marriott Champs Elysées Hotel adds a new elegance to the prestige of its address. Recently completed, its renovation blends the spirit of the times with the spirit of the place, that of a listed building with a past intimately linked...

How would you sum up the history of the Sofitel Paris Baltimore, and what makes it an atypical establishment on the Paris hotel scene? Franck Poncey - The Sofitel Paris-Baltimore is first and foremost a building with a real history, which we remind all our guests of. It was built in 1892 by the architect Paul Lorin,...

They are only forty minutes apart, including the ferry. And probably less when a long-awaited bridge, which could become a reality in a few years' time, links the world's two closest capitals, Brazzaville and Kinshasa. New hotels have just appeared within days of each other on either side of the river Congo....

With more than 300 hotels across France, the Best Western network offers a wide choice of places to stay in the regions and Ile-de-France. There's something for business travellers, but also, more generally, for professionals on the move. In 2020, Best Western France launched its own brand of...

With 350 new addresses announced for the coming year, the Accor group will continue to grow around the world, thanks in part to its luxury brands. While 2026 will be marked by the inauguration in June of the world's largest sailing yacht, the Orient Express Corinthian, for the first exclusive cruise in the Mediterranean,...

Choice Hotels has just announced the opening of 50 Quality Suites hotels in France, continuing its partnership with the Zenitude group. So the partnership could not be more fruitful. David Beers - Indeed, we are extremely satisfied. For Choice Hotels, it is fundamental to create mutually beneficial relationships, win-win partnerships. After a...

Choice Hotels, the world's 8th largest hotel group and one of the largest hotel franchisors, is stepping up its expansion in France. Its presence was already strengthened last year by a strategic agreement with Groupe Zenitude, which saw the integration of more than 30 mid-range aparthotels into the Choice network under the brands...

In addition to the current shutdown and its impact on air travel in the United States, budget cuts by federal and local agencies have been weighing on the results of the US hotel industry for several months now. In a climate of austerity in public spending and the forced departure of many civil servants, the sector has seen a source of revenue collapse...

Morocco is the preferred destination for hotel groups. The 2030 World Cup deadline has a lot to do with it, as does the country's attractiveness to tourists and business travellers alike. Ascott, Hilton, Hyatt, Radisson, which has just opened a long-stay establishment in Taghazout: the major players in the sector are all vying for a place on the...

Adagio has taken a major step forward in France. The European leader in aparthotels is to add nine establishments to its network in France in one fell swoop, through a strategic partnership with Sergic. Adagio will be taking over the management of tourist residences developed by this property services group as part of the revitalisation of the French...

A royal entrance. For the debut of its Waldorf Astoria luxury brand in London next year, the Hilton group could not have wished for a better location. Opposite Buckingham Palace, on the famous Admiralty Arch spanning the Mall, commissioned by Edward VII in memory of Queen Victoria. What was once the residence...

This is symbolic of the place held by France in the Radisson Group's growth strategy. To begin the video presentation of its forthcoming openings, Paris takes pride of place with, to start with, the future Banke Opera Paris hotel, part of the Radisson Collection, whose renovation is due for completion in...

Radisson is stepping up its expansion in France. After recently announcing several key developments, including the takeovers of the Pullman at Roissy CDG and the Banke Opera hotel in Paris, the group is conquering a new major regional city with the opening of a hotel in Clermont-Ferrand. After Reims in 2024, then Montpellier last spring, and before Cannes and...

With almost 130 establishments today, and the promise of more than 200 in the very near future, the Citadines brand is enjoying strong momentum around the world, with forthcoming openings in 18 new key cities such as Liverpool, Marrakech, Tangiers and Kuwait City. Not to mention its expansion into new urban centres...

The end of 2025 is shaping up to be as busy as ever for the Hilton Group. Among the major openings is the recent opening of the Conrad Hamburg, part of the historic Levantehaus building dating from 1910. This 283-room hotel is located on one of the German city's main commercial thoroughfares and, in addition to the...

To you, to me. While the Crowne Plaza Corum in Montpellier has recently been rebranded as a Radisson Blu, the Radisson Blu in Marne-la-Vallée is about to experience the opposite fate. The IHG group has just announced that it is to take over the hotel, in partnership with Danish property company Proark, and transform it into the Crowne Plaza...