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Another step into the unknown for air transport. Faced with Russia's continuous attacks on Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has issued a direct warning to airlines. The intensification of drone attacks on Russia by his country is becoming a real danger for them because «the airspace will become...«

The future has never been closer than in China, particularly with the arrival of robots in everyday life. The country has just provided a spectacular demonstration of the progress of robotics. Today marked the end of the second edition of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. For five days, from August 22nd to the 26th...

If flying taxis, announced with much fanfare around 2024-2025, are struggling to get off the ground, robotaxis, on the other hand, have entered a more down-to-earth reality. For some time now, the tech cradle of San Francisco has been opening its streets to the circulation of autonomous and electric taxis, including Alphabet's Waymo, the...

Chengdu has confirmed its status as the gateway to Southwest China for international exchange, and Radisson Collection is following suit. Jin Jiang International Hotels and Radisson Hotel Group are opening their very first regional address under this brand there, within the Business & Innovation Centre for China-Europe Cooperation (CCEC), the Sino-European cooperation platform…

Accor doesn't do things by halves in the Middle Kingdom. Having been present on the Chinese market for around forty

Two hotel giants are strengthening their partnership by bringing their loyalty programmes closer together. On one side, Accor, the seventh largest hotel group globally according to the latest ranking published by MKG, a leader in the hotel industry in almost all global regions, with the exception of China and the United States. On the other side, H World Group, the fourth largest global group…

Star Alliance is sending a message to the Chinese market, and in particular to business travellers. A few days ago, the alliance opened its new business lounge at Guangzhou Baiyun. Located in Terminal 3, it confirms Guangzhou's special status in Star Alliance's Asian strategy: it is already there (in Terminal...

China has every reason to celebrate the technological excellence of its rail network. That's what Guo Zhuxue, Chairman of the China State Railway Group, explained at the beginning of the month, when he lined up the figures - and the records. The Chinese railway company has reached a new milestone. Its network of high-speed...

Hyatt is consolidating its position in the Asia-Pacific region. Already a partner of the Homeinns group for the roll-out of the Chinese brand UrCove, present in Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities in the country, the American group is using this association to develop its new long-stay brand Hyatt Studios. "Together, we have already demonstrated the...

At the end of the year, China had a rail network of 162,000 kilometres, including 48,000 km dedicated to high-speed rail. This is a world record. The figures for passenger numbers are also impressive. China's railways carried 4.08 billion passengers last year. With daily peaks reaching 21.45 million...

Emirates and Air China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during the IATA Annual General Meeting, establishing a strategic framework to develop their existing interline cooperation. The MoU, which still awaits approval from the civil aviation authorities of China and the UAE, was initialled by Adnan Kazim, Emirates' Chief Executive Officer...

Once the Olympic promises for Paris 2024 are over, and alongside numerous projects in Europe and the United States, it is finally China that could emerge as a pioneer in the flying taxi sector. This seems to be borne out by the new approval granted to the - Chinese, of course - manufacturer EHang. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAAC) has...

There has been no official confirmation yet from Emirates Airlines. But according to the American press agency Bloomberg, a source at the Dubai-based carrier has announced a likely future service to Shenzhen and Hangzhou in China. These two cities would be served at the end of the first half of the year. Of particular interest would be the service to Shenzhen, which has become...

National carrier Vietnam Airlines is strengthening its connectivity with China. The airline has just announced the launch on 30 March of five weekly frequencies between Ho Chi Minh City and the latest airport to serve Beijing, Daxing International Airport (code PKX). The airline will operate a two-class Airbus A321 on this route...

Business travellers on the recently taken over Pakistan Airlines routes between Paris and Islamabad will find a new Mövenpick business hotel at their destination, the first opened by the Accor group in the Pakistani capital. Housed in one of the country's tallest towers, next to the Centaurus Mall shopping centre, the hotel boasts a prime location...

China is continuing to revolutionise the transport sector, particularly the railways, with its new project to have trains running at 1,000 kph by 2035, three times faster than our TGVs in France. The project is based on Japanese maglev-type magnetic levitation technology, using magnets...

Announced last week by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the visa offered on arrival to travellers from 38 nations will see its validity extended from 15 to 30 days from 30 November. This "temporary" facility had been introduced on 1 December 2023 to six test countries (including France). The measure had...

Passengers are witnessing a veritable haemorrhage: the abandonment or reduction in the number of flights by European airlines to China. At the beginning of the summer, Britain's Virgin Atlantic announced that it was stopping flights between London Heathrow and Shanghai. A few weeks later, it was British Airways' turn to announce...

Contemporary and sophisticated, the first Mandarin Oriental to open in Beijing in 2019, in the Wangfujing district, was in the tradition of the great luxury hotels of the Chinese capital. The Hong Kong-based group's second establishment has a more local but no less exclusive feel, drawing inspiration from its surroundings, a district of hutongs. Located in...

Something is not quite right for European airlines flying to China. The wake-up call came at the beginning of August with the announcement by British Airways that its London Heathrow-Beijing route would be suspended on 26 October. The airline had resumed this route in June 2023 with four frequencies per week....