France

A bohemian and arty style, a contemporary spirit: business travellers used to staying at the Best Western Plus Paris Roissy hotel will find this establishment quite different. Firstly, because it was completely refurbished last year, and its rooms, designed to be warm and intimate, feature four distinct styles: 'La Bohème Esthétique', 'La Bohème Esthétique', 'La Bohème Esthétique' and 'La Bohème...

Burgundy-Franche Comté occupies a prime position when it comes to business tourism in France. This success is based on its accessibility, modern meeting and conference facilities, places steeped in history and culture, addresses offering undeniable hospitality, not to mention its remarkable wine-growing terroirs and renowned gastronomy. For reasons of...

After the two weekly flights between Montpellier and Madrid launched by Transavia France this winter, the airport in the Occitan region will now benefit from two new routes to major European hubs for the summer 2023 season. BA Euroflyer, a British Airways subsidiary based at London Gatwick, will be the first to launch three weekly flights...

Endless sand and, on its long beach, colourful traditional cabins laid out in an Indian thread, middle-class villas dating back to the Belle Epoque: Malo-les-Bains, nicknamed "the queen of beaches", is establishing itself as one of the great seaside resorts of the Côte d'Opale. This coastal district of Dunkirk is just a few kilometres from the...

What direction would you like to give the FNAM as its new Chairman? Pascal de Izaguirre - Broadly speaking, the airline industry is facing two main challenges today: a geopolitical and economic crisis, and the necessary ecological transition. I'm going to work hard to ensure that the FNAM is in a position to come up with credible solutions to...

Is the spread of teleworking policies turning office property upside down? Christophe Burckart - Companies have embraced the advent of hybrid working. 20% of them had a teleworking policy before covid, and this figure has risen to 80% today. This phenomenon is having an impact on office property and the locations in which people are moving. When...

What are the Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur Group's priorities for 2023? What objectives in terms of passenger traffic or airlines present in Nice? Franck Goldnadel - The Group's priority is to support the upturn in air traffic at all our hubs, while taking environmental issues into account. The...

In 2017, SNCF recorded a profit of €1.5 billion. This year, the national rail carrier broke that record. According to revelations in the daily Le Parisien, SNCF will have made a record profit of €2.2 billion this year. This information is due to be officially confirmed by the rail operator next February, at its annual...

On Thursday 15 December, Transavia France announced the reinforcement of its 2023 summer schedule. The low-cost subsidiary of the Air France group will be launching 7 new international routes. From its Paris-Orly base, the airline is offering flights to four new destinations for the first time. Paphos (Cyprus) will benefit from one flight a week...

On 7 December, easyJet announced a number of flights about to be launched from French airports. While some of the routes were already known - the airline had already announced its Nice-Copenhagen route last October - it had a few surprises in store for French travellers. Starting with two domestic routes which will be offered in...

The European Commission has approved the French government's intention to limit short-haul flights on its domestic network. Its decision was published at the end of the week in the EU's Official Journal, and welcomed by the Minister in charge of the dossier. "Mr Clément Beaune, the French Minister for Transport, welcomes the decision of...

At the end of the year, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions met in Paris to promote their major MICE destinations through workshops for professionals. This was an opportunity for them to highlight the current and future developments in business tourism in their main cities. New infrastructures, new offers...

hotelF1 is undoubtedly the Accor group brand with the strongest "business" customer mix, even more so than Novotel, Pullman or Ibis. Even more so than Novotel, Pullman or Ibis. In fact, 80% of its sales come from business bookings. Its low-cost accommodation attracts a large number of construction and public works workers and sales reps passing through, the...

From major international hubs to smaller hubs, the decarbonisation drive at French airports is mobilising the entire industry. So much so that international bodies are now hailing the exemplary role played by French airports, as was the case at the fourth annual congress of French airports &...

Nice-Côte d'Azur airport is facing a veritable festival of new and reopened routes this winter. The programme, which includes 22 new routes, confirms the upward trend at France's second-largest airport. In fact, over the first ten months of 2022, Nice welcomed 10.57 million...

In a video posted on YouTube on Sunday, Emmanuel Macron announced his desire "to fulfil our ecological ambition [...] that we have a major national ambition, to develop an RER network, urban trains in 10 major conurbations, 10 major French metropolises". The President wants "a real urban transport strategy" to be put in place,...

The French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) continues to note the upturn in air traffic in France. In its latest economic report for October, it states that the traffic rate corresponds to 89.5% of that recorded for the same month in 2019. This is the best monthly traffic recovery rate recorded since...

Oil prices have risen by 50% in the space of a year, salaries have been revised upwards in the face of inflation, and the dollar - the sector's currency of exchange - has appreciated by 40% against the euro: like all economic players, the air transport sector is experiencing strong pressure on its production costs. "Faced with...

Beauvais Tillé considers itself to be the "third Paris airport", despite its rather considerable distance - the hub is 77km from Paris itself. With no dedicated rail transport, the airport is accessible by shuttle bus from Porte Maillot. The journey generally takes 1 hour 15 minutes or more. So what are the advantages of...

With Paris hotels recording 88% in occupancy, over 80% in Bordeaux establishments and a similar level in the major French cities, the results presented by In Extenso Tourisme, Culture et Hôtellerie (TCH) for the month of September confirm the return of business travellers to the...