Dubai

Continuing its expansion in Europe and around the world, 25hours will be opening a new hotel in Copenhagen in mid-March. This brings to 14 the number of establishments for this lifestyle chain, which was launched in Germany in 2005 and has been an Accor partner since 2016, with the French group owning 50% of its capital and having integrated 25hours into...

"The 25hours Hotel One Central is the most exotic of our projects to date": that's how Christoph Hoffman, founder of the 25hours brand, sums up the positioning of the new address that has just opened in Dubai. It has to be said that the 434-room and suite establishment has indeed opted for a...

There's no end to innovation in Dubai, or at Kempinski for that matter. In the emirate, the luxury hotelier was already offering some astonishing things, with around twenty chalets overlooking the region's only ski slope within the Mall of the Emirates complex. Now it's time for a floating palace...

Of course, the launch of the World Expo in Dubai on October 1 is no small part of the good results achieved by the emirate's hotel industry. According to STR, hotels recorded an average occupancy of 81.6 % over the past month. Not seen since January 2020! However, the emirate did not wait for the...

While the World Expo has been driving Dubai's hotel industry since 1 October, visitors to the city have had the opportunity to discover a new brand in the busy Business Bay district. Given the diversity of hotels already on offer in the emirate, this is something of a rarity. The Hyde Hotels brand has...

According to the latest research from ForwardKeys, which analyses flight booking data, a mini-revolution has taken place in the Gulf. For the first time in the first half of 2021, Doha International Airport has become the region's most important hub. It has thus caught up with and even overtaken...

Travellers in the south-east of France have been eagerly awaiting the return of the Emirates colours to the tarmacs of Nice and Lyon. Now they finally know: on Tuesday, the airline unveiled its schedule for the resumption of flights, which will be based on the relaxation of entry conditions, sparing vaccinated travellers from the United Arab Emirates the...

Hotel development never stops in Dubai. In general, but even more so with the approach of the 2020 World Expo, postponed because of Covid and expected to be held in the emirate from 1ᵉʳ October 2021 to 31 March 2022. In early May, an Adagio residence opened on the artificial island of Palm Jumeirah....

Like other hoteliers, the Radisson group has announced its desire to increase the proportion of its offer aimed at long stays, particularly in Western Europe. This ambition is reflected in the opening of its first top-of-the-range aparthotel in Amsterdam. Located not far from the Amsterdam forest, but above all from the...

Passengers travelling to Dubai are now required to present the negative results of a PCR test for COVID-19, carried out 72 hours before travel rather than 96 hours (4 days) as was previously the case. Passengers must also continue to install a special mobile application on their phones. This application allows passengers to...

Accor has added a fourth Pullman to its offering in the United Arab Emirates following those in Dubai Deira Creek City Centre, Dubai Jumeirah Lakes Towers and Sharjah. Located in Business Bay, one of the emirate's main business districts, the Pullman Dubai Downtown is close to the Dubai International Financial Centre and the...

The Spanish group Meliá Hotels International took advantage of the virtual version of the ILTM international travel fair to present the development of its luxury offer in the business, lifestyle and resort segments. Among these, the Gran Melia brand will be setting up a new benchmark establishment in Milan in 2023, taking its place in a...

The list of business destinations covered by the Moxy network is expanding to include new strategic hubs. The Marriott Group brand recently opened its first property in Taiwan, in the island's second largest city. The Moxy Taichung hotel and its 262 rooms are just a quarter of an hour from the railway station, and 24 minutes from...

The largest Sofitel hotel in the Middle East and Africa region has opened its doors in Dubai. With its slender architecture inspired by the obelisk in Place de la Concorde, Sofitel Dubai The Obelisk dominates the Wafi shopping complex and completes its lifestyle and entertainment offer. Just ten minutes from the international airport,...

The health situation has prompted Emirates to step up its efforts in the field of biometrics, to make the passenger experience more fluid. For several days now, the airline has been offering a new "biometric route", based on a technology combining facial and iris recognition. This technology is to be applied to all airport procedures, from the...

From July 7, business travellers will once again be able to visit Dubai, provided they meet certain eligibility criteria and have taken out an appropriate international insurance policy covering Covid-19-related risks for the duration of their stay. They must also be able to present a recent certificate of negative testing, or...

With 89,149,387 passengers (+11TP3Q), Dubai Airport maintained its world leadership in international traffic in 2018 for the fifth consecutive year. On average, the Dubai hub welcomed 7.4 million passengers per month, with peaks in excess of 8 million recorded during the summer, in July and...

Over the last few years, Emirates has focused particularly on improving its First and Business Class products. In First Class, the airline has consolidated its reputation with suites and in particular the possibility of taking a shower during the flight, a unique service in air transport until now. The airline has just...

In the 1950s and 1960s, it was one of the best hotels in the whole of the Soviet Union, where the first cocktails were served in the country. Hotel Riga, the Latvian capital's meeting place for the intelligentsia, was rebuilt in the 1950s after being totally demolished during the Second World War, and has now entered a new era...

Dubai airport is due to install an innovative biometric identification system in Terminal 3 from next summer. Passengers will pass through a tunnel equipped with around 80 cameras hidden behind screens. The screens will immerse the passenger in a virtual aquarium, with moving fish to catch the traveller's eye...