France

Wojo has teamed up with Mama Shelter to develop the hotel chain's coworking brand, Mama Works. The flexible workspace specialist now has a brand licence to roll out Mama Works in France and Europe, including the UK. It's a logical move, given that the two brands have been...

An apartment hotel is being prepared in Paris, a new brand strategy is being considered, and massive investment is being made in the renovation of its establishments: Appart City intends to maintain its pre-eminent position in the French long-stay accommodation market. With its hundred or so city residences positioned in the budget and mid-range segments, Appart City is one of the...

The Mama Shelter brand's expansion into French provincial cities has been in the pipeline since the announcement at the end of last year of new hotels in Nice, Dijon and Rennes. Among these destinations, Brittany is set to launch this salvo of openings by welcoming, from March 2023, the ninth hotel in the lifestyle brand created...

At a time when the French government is urging French people and businesses to reduce their energy consumption, there are countless companies involved in business travel that are implementing energy-saving plans, particularly in the areas of transport, accommodation and Mice, such as the SNCF, the RATP and the hotel chain...

Air traffic in France continues to improve, according to the latest statistics from the DGAC covering the period January-August. The number of passengers in mainland France in August represented 87.5% of its 2019 traffic level and 77.1% cumulatively since January. This translates into traffic of 94...

The project to extend Terminal 2 at Nice airport was presented in 2018. At the time, the traffic outlook remained positive, as the Covid crisis had not passed. By 2019, Nice's two terminals had almost reached saturation point, with 14.5 million passengers. Theoretical capacity is set at...

Marriott has set its sights on Paris Basketball for its entry into the arena of French sport. The partnership between the Marriott Bonvoy programme and the Paris club was made official on 29 September. "We've been looking for a sports partner in France for some time, and we've found the right one...

The smallest of the big groups. With almost 1,200 hotels worldwide, compared with over 8,000 for Marriott and just under 7,000 for Hilton, Hyatt is certainly not the most bulimic hotelier. However, the reputation of its top-of-the-range establishments and the presence of its hotels in the main...

On Tuesday 4 October, Marseille will be hosting Séminaires Business Events at the Friche de la Belle de Mai. This trade show dedicated to business tourism will bring together 80 exhibitors from the south-east of France, including a number of events professionals from the City of Marseille, which has become a key MICE destination. And with business in the city picking up again...

Where do things stand with the restructuring of Air Austral? Jean-Marc Grazzini - In the restructuring plan drawn up a few months ago, the option chosen is for private investors from Reunion Island to acquire a stake in the company. At the same time, we are continuing to renegotiate our debt with the government. This debt is approximately...

It may seem paradoxical to hear the CEO of Aéroports de Paris, Augustin de Romanet, recently speaking to BFM, urging passengers "to be more reasonable when travelling by air". And yet, this position illustrates the climate challenges facing an entire sector which, without action on the part of its players, and also passengers, would see its emissions...

The recovery is well and truly underway for Air France, as Henri de Peyrelongue, Executive Vice President Commercial Sales Air France-KLM and Henri Hourcade, Executive Vice President France Air France-KLM indicated at IFTM Top Resa. Traffic is almost at its pre-covid passenger level, as is the offer. "On North America, the offer is even greater than in 2019,...

Modified on 14/09 at 10:15 This Friday 16 September, business travellers will have to cope with "severe disruption" to air traffic, according to a press release from the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC). The DGAC has reportedly asked airlines to cancel half of their flight schedules. The reason: a strike...

It's more than just a beautiful building. The new Strasbourg Exhibition Centre, inaugurated at the beginning of September, consolidates Strasbourg's ambitions. A major European crossroads, the Eurometropolis between France and Germany is now seeking to become a model for sustainable urban development. "The new Exhibition Centre is a concrete expression of the ambitions of a city that is asserting itself as one of...

The French hotel industry's excellent summer was long overdue. Already in 2020 and 2021, the summer period had come as a relief to professionals - with the exception of Parisian hoteliers - mired in an unprecedented health crisis. And with the absence of border restrictions and the return of foreign customers, particularly from North America, the situation could not have been worse...

Transport Minister Clément Beaune told the daily Le Parisien that he was considering regulating private jets in the interests of financial fairness. "There are reasons for urgency and economic imperatives, but this cannot be an individual mode of transport for comfort, when the general mobilisation under way...

There has been a real upturn in French air transport since the start of the year, even though June saw a slight fall in traffic. According to DGAC statistics, French air transport recorded 61.71 million passengers in the first half of the year. This figure corresponds to 72.2% of traffic for the same period in 2019....

It's an airport that doesn't get a lot of buzz, but up until 2020 it was showing very respectable growth rates. Lille airport, to the south of the northern metropolis, welcomed almost 2.2 million passengers in 2019, putting it in 11th place in France, behind Beauvais airport and ahead of Montpellier. [link-block...

Paris airports will be handling 5.3 million more passengers in June 2022. A total of 8.1 million passengers. This represents 82.1 % of Paris Airport traffic in June 2019. Orly more dynamic than Roissy CDG In June 2022, Paris-Charles de Gaulle welcomed 5.5...

Organised last year in a hybrid format, UNIMEV's annual See You There (SYT) conference was held from 29 June to 1 July at the Jean Prouvé Convention Centre in Nancy, bringing together 300 players from the French events industry. It was an opportunity for them to draw a number of conclusions about their business...