business hotels

Five years after its launch, the name The Originals is making its mark on the French hotel landscape, according to Olivier Dufit, its new Managing Director, who has taken over from Philippe Marguet, who retired this summer. A single brand, bringing together under its umbrella a range of...

The IHG Group's return to the Swedish market has taken an eminently business-oriented route with a prime location for business travellers and tech professionals: the Kista district, in the northern suburbs of Stockholm. The local Silicon Valley, Europe's largest cluster dedicated to information and communication technologies, is...

Using Thailand and Asia as a starting point to expand its footprint on this side of the world, the Minor group had already set an example with its 2018 acquisition of NH Hotels. Dusit Hotels & Resorts now seems to be following a similar path. The hotel arm of Dusit International, one of Thailand's leading hotel development companies...

Forever the first. And probably for some time to come. Swissôtel Nusantara is the first hotel to open its doors in the new Indonesian capital, which was inaugurated on 17 August. The celebration of the 79th anniversary of the country's independence gave President Joko Widodo the opportunity to put flesh on the bones of his...

Playing hooky. It's a childish prospect that's sure to appeal to business travellers passing through Rouen. And yet. This invitation to indulge in pleasures rather than professional concerns has taken a very business-like turn in the city of Normandy. For l'Ecole buissonnière is the name given to a new office complex being developed by a...

Opened for the Munich Olympic Games in 1972, the Hilton Munich Park hotel will soon be taking a long break after some fifty years in business. Only to come back even stronger, following a four-year renovation programme scheduled to reopen in 2029. The rejuvenation of this major business hotel with...

The Louvre Hotels group has been on the sidelines for a long time, but at the end of last year it embarked on a new dynamic. A new lease of life that includes a five-year strategic plan marked by the renovation of its hotel portfolio. The Kyriad La Rochelle Centre-ville, which has been undergoing renovation work for the past year and a half, has just...

The Accor group has been involved with the Organising Committee since Paris first bid to host the Olympic Games, and became an official partner of the event in 2021, before being upgraded to Premium status in 2023. The Accor group is at the heart of Olympic Games hospitality. Firstly, because it is responsible for ensuring the comfort of the athletes taking part in the...

Rooms costing more than €1,000 on the evening of the opening ceremony, and even much more for some hoteliers criticised by UFC-Que Choisir; drastic conditions for the number of compulsory nights or cancellations: at the end of December last year, the consumer association warned of the surge in hotel rates during the...

The world's leading hotel companies are placing particular emphasis on their development in Turkey. This is a key market where Hilton is approaching the 100-establishment mark and Accor the 80 mark, while Marriott has around fifty hotels, most of them in Istanbul. For its part, the Radisson group is making progress towards its target of 100 hotels by 2010.

After opening a residence in the Montmartre district last year, Edgar Suites is continuing to expand its offering in the Paris region. The company, which specialises in top-of-the-range urban aparthotels, has just added a new establishment in Montrouge, just a stone's throw from the Evergreen campus, the global headquarters of Crédit Agricole. Located next to the metro and the...

Announced in 2023 and completed last February with its first hotel at London Heathrow airport, the expansion of B&B HOTELS in the United Kingdom is continuing with five new addresses in Birmingham, Ipswich, Warrington and Derby in England and Inverness in Scotland. This growth has been made possible by the acquisition of a number of establishments from the Pentahotel group, already integrated...

The Radisson group is preparing to break out the champagne this summer, with the opening of its first hotel in Reims. This establishment, part of the upmarket Radisson Hotels brand, is part of the emergence of a new eco-district, the result of the conversion of the former Sernam Boulingrin railway site. Launched in the middle of the last decade, this...

One of the future flagships of the MICE hotel industry in the Paris region. The Dolce by Wyndham Versailles, which opens its doors in July in Jouy en Josas, has everything it takes to welcome companies in conditions worthy of their rank. In a historic location, in a green setting, in the heart of a vast 1,800 square metre conference centre, the Dolce by Wyndham Versailles...

Laos has long suffered from being landlocked between China, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia. This situation has contributed to its slow economic development. But it has also probably protected it from the throes of forced modernisation on the Asian continent since the 1980s. This can still be seen today in the streets of Vientiane, one of the...

And the desire increases as the effect draws closer. With less than a month to go before the opening of the Olympic Games and the cohort of visitors expected for the occasion, Parisian hotels continue to fill up. According to the CDS and MKG reservations observatory, on a panel of nearly 250 hotels studied, the number of reservations...

The Hyatt group now has over 200 hotels in the Europe-Africa-Middle East (EMEA) region. This represents a portfolio that has more than doubled in the space of five years. Is developing your portfolio in Europe a priority for your group? Javier Aguila - We have a very clear desire to expand our presence in Europe. With, in...

Among its many projects on the African continent, the Radisson group is preparing to take a leading role in the Tunisian business hotel sector. First of all, at the beginning of July, with the opening of the Radisson Tunis City Center, with almost 100 rooms and a 250 m² meeting space comprising three rooms. But more than that, the...

The Hilton group will be signing a number of firsts in the third quarter of this year, with the arrival this summer of its first hotels in Nepal, Laos and East Timor. From July onwards, business travellers to Kathmandu will find a 173-room Hilton hotel designed for corporate meetings, with...

Grape Hospitality owns or manages around a hundred hotels under franchise from Accor, IHG and Louvre Hotels. Let's look back at the origins of your group. Frédéric Josenhans - The adventure began in 2016 with the acquisition of 85 businesses from the Accor group. With our shareholders, i.e. Eurazeo for 70% and AccorInvest for...