business hotels

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...

Not the metamorphosis of a historic site, as in Lille recently with the former headquarters of the Scalbert-Dupont bank, but the rebirth of an existing establishment that had been closed for several years: the Océania group is setting up in Lyon with the transformation of the former Median hotel, in the 8th arrondissement. Bought by the Breton group in 2022, at the same time as the...

American Express GBT is boosting its data on the carbon emissions of hotels used by business travellers. Already a partner of the start-up Chooose, selected by TMC to enhance the carbon footprint reporting of flights offered to its customers, Amex GBT is extending this partnership with the integration of functions relating to hotels. From...

A first that will be followed by others. Since the end of June, the Ascott group has had a Citadines apartment hotel in Istanbul, in the Maslak district. Offering 147 units ranging from studios to four-bedroom flats, with a restaurant and meeting room, the establishment adds a new stopover to the list of...

Finding a parking space could not be easier for the Galia Group. Not for its employees, but for its hotels. Having recently transformed a car park and an office building into a five-star hotel - La Fondation - in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, this family-owned property group is now applying the same recipe...

Almost the hundredth. The Motel One Paris-Porte de Versailles, which has just opened its doors, could have symbolised the passage of a milestone for the German hotelier. Instead, it was in Munich, in the city where it all began 25 years ago, that the group passed this milestone a few weeks ago with the opening of its...

The Barcelo Group is establishing its first key foothold in France, particularly for business travellers to the Paris region. The Spanish hotelier has just purchased, for €70 million, the Evergreen Laurel Hotel in Levallois-Perret, in the heart of the Front de Seine business district, which boasts almost 170,000 sq. metres of office space between...

A lifestyle renaissance. For its debut in Switzerland this summer, Mama Shelter is picking up the thread of the history of one of Zürich's flagship establishments, the former Swissôtel. Originally known as Hôtel International in 1972, it took on the name of this essentially Swiss brand in 1980, when its owner at the time, Swissair, changed its name to Swissôtel.

Waldorf Astoria is heading north. This year, the Hilton Group's luxury brand is set to make its Scandinavian debut in Helsinki. The American hotelier has just signed a management agreement with M&L Group to integrate the Hotel Maria, soon to be renamed Waldorf Astoria Helsinki, into its portfolio. Located in the...

Bill Murray will soon be able to take his jet-lagged actor spleen for a spin once again. The flagship host of the film Lost in Translation, the Park Hyatt Tokyo is back in business at the end of the year, celebrating its 30th anniversary by offering travellers a redesigned setting after more than a year's work. With new restaurant concepts, but with the same elegance as before...

Minor Hotels, which has a strong presence in Asia as well as in Europe since its acquisition of NH Hotels, is strengthening its sales strategy aimed at its B2B clientele. The Thai group is launching a new distribution platform designed for travel agencies, tour operators, event organisers, companies and other professionals in the sector. Called Minor PRO, the new platform...

The Campanile Perpignan Nord and Toulouse Balma - Cité de l'espace and the Kyriad Prestige in Compiègne and Saint-Malo: these recently renovated establishments all embody the expected renewal of Louvre Hotels. Last year, the group re-launched a new dynamic by rethinking its brands and transforming them accordingly....

With almost 150 hotels and a presence in 20 countries, Marriott already occupies a pre-eminent position among hotel groups in Africa, particularly since its takeover of Protea Hotels in the middle of the last decade. With its hundred or so establishments at the time, most of them in southern Africa, this South African group gave Marriott a...

The hotel boom in Diamniadio, Senegal, is set to continue. With the opening of the new Blaise Diagne international airport and the TER (regional express train) link connecting the new town to Dakar and the Senegalese hub, Diamniadio is boosting its capacity to receive travellers and at the same time establishing itself as the new hub of the Senegalese economy. It is in this context that...

HOTELS Novotel Saint-Étienne Centre Gare Châteaucreux It's impossible for a business traveller arriving in Saint-Etienne Châteaucreux not to spot this representative of the city's top-of-the-range hotels. Situated just opposite the station, the Novotel, like its more economical cousin the ibis Budget, is part of a building complex that appeared a few years ago.

Of course, there's no sea like in Antibes. Or the champagne vineyards and timber-framed houses of Troyes. But there is a converted industrial past, a contemporary élan and a special warmth. In fact, Saint-Etienne often joins these two cities on the list of convention destinations in France. And so...