business hotels

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...

Goal achieved. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Moxy brand, launched in 2014 at Milan Malpensa airport, Marriott announced its intention to reach the milestone of 100 establishments in the EMEA region by the end of 2025. This has now been achieved with the opening of a hotel in Belfast. "This is a major step forward for Neal Jones,...

A gentle wake-up call for a venerable centenarian. A century after the opening of the first Hilton in Dallas in 1925, following Conrad Hilton's career debut six years earlier with the purchase of a hotel in Cusco, Texas, this most famous brand in the world of travel intends to give itself a new lease of life....

The Park Hyatt brand is taking a more elevated position in the world of luxury hotels by passing the 50-hotel mark worldwide. Its latest hotel, which opened at the beginning of August, dominates the whole of Kuala Lumpur, housed in the tallest skyscraper in the whole of the city.

Is it the new voco Malta hotel in the seaside resort of St. Julian's, or the luxurious Kimpton Mas Olas resort in Mexico, recently opened just outside Los Cabos? Or how about the Holiday Inn Kyoto Gojo, marking the return of one of IHG's flagship brands to this historic city? The 183-room Holiday Inn Kyoto Gojo...

A landing at Budapest airport, a new hotel in Pantin near Paris, a first establishment in Krakow, Poland: in recent months, the Tribe brand has been spreading its contemporary spirit in several major European destinations. Design, a "top-of-the-range style at a fair price", entertainment concentrated in...