Europe

The European air traffic control agency, Eurocontrol, recently published some edifying statistics on flight times between Europe and Asia, both before and after Russia's war in Ukraine. And this despite the fact that the European Union has banned Russian aircraft from flying over its territory and that Russia...

The luxurious Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor and the Novotel Budapest Centrum may not target the same clientele, but they share a rich past, the Accor group as chaperone and, above all, the same recent history. Closed for extensive refurbishment work, they have seen little or none of the dark days...

Just a stone's throw from Sicily and Tunisia, Malta is on the border between East and West, in the heart of the Mediterranean. The temperature is mild all year round and the sky is mostly deep blue. Exotic, welcoming and gourmet, Malta is within easy reach of the French market. Everything is...

Alstom has just confirmed that Sweden's national railway company, SJ, has decided to purchase new high-speed trains. These trains will be the fastest in Sweden, with a maximum speed of 250 kilometres per hour. They will be used for long-distance rail services between Sweden's major cities. They will also be used for...

The need to travel is strong despite the uncertain political and economic situation in Europe. This is the conclusion of ACI Europe, which brings together over 500 airports in some fifty countries across the continent. Compared with the figures for 2020 (the month of March and the 1st quarter of 2020 saw traffic...

Finally, Air Serbia will not be flying to Nice during the high summer season. The airline has decided not to connect the capital of the Riviera with Belgrade due to a lack of traffic. Initially scheduled for April and then postponed until May, the route has simply been withdrawn from the Serbian carrier's booking engines. In fact, the...

In the bull's eye. Marriott International has just passed the 1,000 hotel mark in the Europe - Middle East - Africa (EMEA) region. The American group has chosen an emblematic destination, London, to celebrate this major milestone. Now open, the Westin London City, close to the River Thames and the financial heart of the capital...

The Biden administration was seriously considering it. With the Covid pandemic turning into an endemic disease, the civil aviation authorities were seriously considering the possibility of abolishing the compulsory wearing of masks in May. Then, at the beginning of the week, a judge's ruling in Florida brought matters to a head. Mandatory masks...

Climate change, the health crisis, the war in Ukraine... these are just some of the uncontrollable global factors that have profoundly changed the way we reward our customers and employees with a trip. Previously anecdotal and seen as a constraint, corporate social responsibility (CSR ) is now becoming a matter of course, as confirmed by Laure Dupont-Hury, head of the incentive travel division at...

Finnish national airline Finnair has grown and prospered in the shadow of its large eastern neighbour. It has benefited from the post-Soviet era from 1991 onwards. An era of opening up to the outside world for Russia, reflected in the development of the travel market and rising living standards...

The Accor group is strengthening its presence in the Balkans with an MGallery already open in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second city, and a Mövenpick planned for this summer in Zagreb. To make its entry into the Croatian capital, the top-of-the-range brand has found a location in line with its positioning, which is focused on the...

Far from it, the health crisis has not dampened the growth prospects of the major hotel groups. Accor is demonstrating this with 288 hotels opened last year, providing 41,000 new rooms. This means net growth of 3 % in 2021, taking the French group's network to more than 5,300 hotels and 778,000 rooms, putting it in a good position to...

Most European and Asian airlines operating between the two continents have been severely affected by the closure of Ukrainian airspace and the ban on aircraft from nearly forty countries flying over Russian territory. Among the airlines most affected is Finnair. The Finnish airline has been...

One of the world's largest hotel franchisors, along with its American counterpart Choice, the Wyndham group is set to continue its international expansion, with a wide range of openings planned for 2022 across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With almost 9,000 hotels in some 100 countries around the world, the hotel chain is well known for its...

Amelia makes no secret of the clientele targeted by the new routes about to be added to its catalogue. Business customers, and more specifically parliamentarians and diplomats, who converge on Strasbourg and its European institutions. "Vital for members of parliament and staff at sessions of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, or for Europeans in correspondence...

After almost two weeks of war, have all business travellers and expatriates left Ukraine? Xavier Carn - Most companies have exfiltrated or advised their employees to leave Ukraine. At International SOS, we advised our members to leave the country a fortnight ago. The companies that...

Here's a survey that will probably put a smile on the face of the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo. Clean Cities is a campaign run by several organisations under the aegis of the British NGO Transport & Environment. Its aim is to encourage cities to move towards sustainable mobility by 2030. The aim is to transform Europe's major cities into champions of...

There's a lot of talk about the difficulty of booking a ticket or service on the new SNCF Connect application. But what about other European rail companies? A quick look at the applications used by other rail operators is in order. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. However, we can see that the simple purchase...

SAS is strengthening its North American network with Toronto, its only destination in Canada. The Scandinavian carrier is launching three flights a week from Copenhagen and four times a week from Stockholm Arlanda. The routes will be operated by an Airbus A321LR in a three-class configuration with a total capacity of 157...

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...