Europe

Maintain a balanced lifestyle even when you're on the move, relax and recharge your batteries: the Sleep Inn brand's promise is, on the face of it, very appealing to business travellers with busy schedules. This mid-range brand, which has already been operating in the United States for around ten years and has more than 400 hotels...

InterNations is a worldwide expat association with 4.7 million members in 420 cities. Since 2018, this community has published a list of the best and worst cities on the planet in which to settle. InterNations' "Expat Insider Report 2022" is based on criteria that are quite different from the usual rankings. The annual survey, which...

Hilton has not waited until the beginning of next year to present its list of most eagerly awaited openings in 2023. And, of the twenty or so hotels selected to represent the American group's best projects, two are in French cities linked by a rich wine-growing and historical heritage, Bordeaux and Dijon. While the Burgundy metropolis...

It's often a surprise when you make a booking on the Airbnb website: the price is higher than you first thought. Take, for example, this studio apartment rented for 3 days in Paris. It was listed at €243 for a stay from 23 to 26 November? But at the time of payment, it came to...

Synergies between air and rail have been on the increase in recent months. Deutsche Bahn recently joined the oneworld airline alliance, and in July Rome Fiumicino airport signed a partnership agreement with FS Italiane to deploy Trenitalia services from the hub to Naples and Rome.

Until 2019, Finnair was the airline specialising in Asia, with a network that included many secondary cities with little or no service from competitors. At the time, the Finnair network included cities such as Sapporo and Fukuoka in Japan and Xian in China. "But the conflict between Russia and Ukraine...

Finnair is now positioning itself on Doha in partnership with Qatar Airways. The two airlines already work together within the Oneworld alliance. The CEOs of Finnair and Qatar Airways have signed an agreement for the joint operation of three daily non-stop flights from Copenhagen, Helsinki and Stockholm. In Doha, passengers will have access to...

A point-to-point airline with a simplified service offering, Eurowings is beginning to recover some of its business traffic. The carrier says it is sensing an increase in premium demand. It is therefore responding with 30% of additional frequencies from September. "We can see very clearly that after the end of the summer holidays, demand for...

Turkish Airlines has just published its results for the first half of 2022. They confirm the upturn in global traffic, which is of particular benefit to the Turkish airline. Turkish carried 30.89 million passengers in the first six months of 2022. Although this performance is still 12% down on the previous year's figures,...

High-speed rail is gaining support in Europe as the European Commission seeks to accelerate the development of intelligent, sustainable mobility. The European Commission is aiming to double high-speed rail traffic by 2030 and triple it by 2050. To achieve the 2030 target, it will be necessary to...

The practice will go down in history as the big innovation of summer 2022. And it's not something that passengers are happy about. Bogged down by staff shortages both in their own companies and at airports, European and American airlines have turned to the technique of "Hate Selling" (....).

For its return to the Romanian market, InterContinental has chosen a prestigious address: the Athénée Palace Bucharest, built in 1914 and listed as a historic monument. Until now, the Art Deco building has been known as a Hilton, and incidentally as a notorious nest of spies during the Cold War... Expected to open in January 2023, the InterContinental...

It's a success that has taken political and economic circles by surprise. In June alone, Germany sold 21 million transport tickets for 9 euros. These were in addition to the 10 million season tickets sold each month on local and regional lines. Fears of trains or transport...

IFEMA Madrid is back on the international MICE scene. This was the message sent out on 13 July by the Madrid Convention Centre, which reported a busy, and therefore successful, first half-year. IFEMA Madrid's management noted that it had "spearheaded the revival of the trade fair sector...

Swiss International Air Lines will be expanding its portfolio of destinations from the start of the winter schedules. The carrier is planning 83 destinations from Zurich and 26 from Geneva. This represents approximately 80% of 2019 capacity. The programme features a greater number of destinations than during the winter...

SAS Scandinavian Airlines has been feeling the pinch for a long time now. The company, whose shareholders are the governments of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, has been in a poor financial position for more than a decade. Its situation has been weakened by the Covid crisis, particularly with the fall in traffic to Asia....

The launch this summer by Deutsche Bahn and the German regional companies of a €9 ticket has put the spotlight back on the idea of low-cost travel on public transport. The ticket allows unlimited use of all regional transport for one month. The German government's initiative...

There are some quirks in the selection of destinations in the Michelin Guides. While Paris, Brussels, London, Rome, New York, San Francisco, Bangkok and Tokyo are all included in these prestigious culinary guides, we wondered why some destinations known for their culinary delights had not yet made the list. It's true that...

With the wave of easing of restrictions linked to the current health crisis around the world, business travel is set to become a whole lot easier. The latest is particularly significant, as the United States has just abandoned the requirement to present a negative test to enter its territory. "US will end Covid-19 testing requirement for...

British consultancy ECA International, a leading global provider of data and information for expatriate management and assignments, has published its annual list of the most expensive destinations to live in. The cost of living index is based on the calculation of prices for food, household and leisure goods, clothing and other items....