business hotels
Hilton: offer doubled in Morocco, new bid in Congo
What better way to realise its ambitions than by setting up shop in the country's tallest skyscraper, in one of the capital's key projects? The Hilton Group's intention to double its presence in Morocco will be reflected in the launch of its prestigious Waldorf Astoria brand in Morocco in 2025.
Mama Shelter expected in an office building in Val d'Europe
Dubai, Singapore, Cape Town, Casablanca, Amsterdam: Mama Shelter will continue to expand in the world's major cities over the coming years. However, the lifestyle brand, founded by Serge Trigano and now part of the Accor group and its subsidiary Ennismore, is still counting on France to underpin its development. After...
Novotel Bruges, showroom for the brand's new design spirit
This is not a business hotel. Or very little, given that Bruges is more attractive for its Unesco-listed city centre than for its economic weight. So much so that the Novotel Bruges Centre has converted the high-ceilinged rooms of its conference centre into 12 duplex suites designed to accommodate...
Luxembourg: a hub for the hotel industry in 2025
A new luxury boutique hotel and a historic establishment back in business, but also a budget hotel in the fast-growing Cloche d'Or district or another within an innovative mega complex: Luxembourg will be at the heart of hotel news in 2025. And that's shortly after...
Hilton to launch its Signia MICE brand in EMEA
The Hilton Group is to roll out its Signia by Hilton brand, focused on MICE events, in the EMEA region for the first time. Having appeared across the Atlantic in Atlanta, Orlando and San José, California, with Indianapolis in the pipeline, Signia will unveil its first address next January in Amman, Jordan. The development will be...
The Tribe brand continues to expand
Twenty hotels today, with forty more in the pipeline: the Tribe brand is beginning to make its mark on the hotel landscape. Launched by the Accor group in 2019, based on a first hotel in Australia, in Perth, it has come a long way since then, being present in Paris and Lyon as well as in Budapest, London,...
Marriott: a year 2025 rich in openings
In addition to its leadership position in the luxury hotel sector, which is constantly being strengthened, the Marriott group can count on its 'select service' brands and its collections of boutique hotels to maintain the growth of its offer in France and Europe. Spearheading this expansion, Moxy Hotels is now very close to...
S. de Courtivron (Covivio): "We talk to all the groups".
One of Europe's leading hotel investment companies, Covivio currently owns 311 hotels with assets worth €6.4 billion. Located mainly in France, the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as in Southern Europe and the Benelux countries, these hotels are operated by major hotel groups through leases - in 62% of cases - or...
Bikube, a new player between coliving and aparthotels
Neither, or both. The Bikube concept oscillates between aparthotel and rental accommodation, between coliving and coworking, all in a lifestyle spirit. Developed by Vinci Immobilier's Operations division, this project launched at the end of 2018 has materialised with a first establishment in Lyon, in the...
Novotel makes common cause with Adagio in Abidjan
The Accor group has strengthened its presence in Côte d'Ivoire with the inauguration within a few months of each other of two establishments in the same location in Abidjan. After an Adagio Original urban residence with 110 studios and flats, the complex was completed in November with the unveiling of the Novotel Abidjan Marcory, the whole being brought together by a...
CitizenM: another in London, a first in Dublin
After America, it's off to the British Isles for citizenM. In recent times, the lifestyle brand has become accustomed to perfecting its network in the United States, with recent openings in Miami and Boston, following its move to the Meta campus in Menlo Park, California. Next summer, it will be heading for Ireland and the United Kingdom, where it...
From the world to the Balkans for the hotel industry
Its slender silhouette, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, soars high into the Belgrade sky, in a district undergoing major transformation at the confluence of the Save and Danube rivers. Symbolising the Serbian capital's ambitions as the business hub of the Balkans, the Kula Belgrade skyscraper is designed to offer luxurious hospitality...
Pullman: a room concept designed for hybrid stays
Responding to the bleisure trend, to "Blended Travel": with its Transforming Room concept, the Pullman brand is exploring the needs of tomorrow's business travellers. And today too. Installed in the Pullman Singapore Orchard, this room concept is the fruit of two years of research into customer behaviour, particularly business behaviour, and the...
easyHotel, straight to the point in Marseille Euromed
The low-cost, low-carbon easyHotel chain is strengthening its presence in France with the opening of a hotel in Marseille in the last few days. This follows the opening of its first hotel in Nice, and the opening of two hotels in the Paris region, one near Paris CDG and Villepinte, and the other in Aubervilliers. "Marseille has been...
IHG: Germany, first market for its new Garner brand
The IHG group is taking full advantage of its franchise agreement with the Novum Hospitality group to expand its position in Germany. Of the hundred or so hotels that have joined the group, some that previously carried the The niu brand are in the process of joining the Holiday Inn brand, while others are moving towards the long-stay Candlewood Suites brand....
MICE and business travel, the driving forces behind the growth of...
After the strong winds of travel revenge in the leisure sector, business travel and events are taking over to bolster the performance of hotel groups. Accor, IHG, Hilton and Marriott all agree with this assessment, as they announced their third-quarter results and took part in a question-and-answer session with...
Marriott: new business hotels from Barcelona to Dubai
A new hotel in Barcelona and a redesigned establishment in the heart of Madrid's financial district, a combo in Cork, developments in Africa and Dubai: the Marriott group is offering new hotels to business travellers. On its way to reaching the 100-hotel mark in Europe, the Moxy lifestyle brand, for example, has set up...
Business offers at The Originals, MICE for EKLO
The Originals Hotels made no secret of its desire to highlight its offers for business travellers. Interviewed at the beginning of the year by Voyages d'Affaires, Olivier Dufit, the cooperative's managing director, explained that stage evenings would be "one of the spearheads" of the group in 2024. While this offer already existed,...
A bull's-eye for Mercury
No doubt the story of this success was already being written when Bernard Mignard and Michel Vincent decided to dedicate their hotel brand to the god of travel and trade, Mercure. How could a hotel with such a name not prosper around the world? Since the first hotel opened in 1974 in Saint-Witz,...
CitizenM: two new addresses in Boston and Miami
Every year or so, CitizenM opens a hotel in Miami. After the Brickell district in 2022 and the Miami Worldcenter last year, in the heart of the Floridian metropolis, the lifestyle brand has taken a diversion to South Beach, a few steps from the shops and restaurants of Lincoln Road. "We are delighted...
