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Budget brand B&B Hotels has just added the Netherlands to its list of destinations with its first 93-room property in Zaandam, near Amsterdam. The hotel is currently being modernised to incorporate the new urban design imagined by interior architects Agence D'Istria Studio. This first step in the Netherlands will be followed by others. "In addition to...

Is the development of the Hilton Group, and all its brands, being held back by the crisis? David Heijligers - On the contrary. Despite this unprecedented crisis, Hilton has continued to grow, whether globally, in Europe or in France. Last year, which was a difficult year if ever there was one, we still managed to...

From 9 June, Europeans who have been fully vaccinated will no longer be required to present a negative PCR test to enter France. As the date previously set for the reopening of borders approaches, on 4 June the French government set out the arrangements for the flow of travellers between France and...

"Here we are!" With a tweet, Emmanuel Macron kicked off the second stage of deconfinement symbolised by the reopening of the terraces, with the President of the Republic taking to the stage seated at a café table to materialise the moment. The social network is teeming with examples of personalities who, despite...

What is Lille Grand Palais' strategy in launching this new hybrid offering? Hervé Vauvillier - We could have positioned ourselves on a new purely digital offering, but we opted for the hybrid approach. This can be explained by the DNA of Lille Grand Palais: a convention centre is there...

Before the covid pandemic, Nice-Côte d'Azur airport was linked to some 120 destinations in 44 countries around the world. It was also the airport - outside Paris - with the highest number of long-haul flights. The airport now hopes to quickly regain this status. The 2021 summer schedule seems to support this recovery strategy. The...

The deconfinement process is taking shape in France. A week after Jean Castex's speech, which set 3 May as the start of the relaxation, Emmanuel Macron took up the issue in the regional press. The President confirmed this starting point, which will mark the end of travel restrictions. He also set out the stages...

The Occitanie region and Toulouse Métropole can celebrate after four years of battle over a highly political project. On 27 April, a letter from Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed that the French government was committing €4.1 billion to funding the Bordeaux-Toulouse high-speed line. By 2030, the project will have...

The fall was inevitable and will come as no surprise to anyone. In 2020, the Best Western network in France recorded an unprecedented drop in sales of -52.4 %, following a record performance in 2019. The causes are well known: a pandemic which, through confinements and border closures, triggered a series of...

Jean Castex spoke on Thursday 22 April to give an update on the health situation in France and the resulting changes to the regulatory framework. In particular, the Prime Minister confirmed that travel within France could resume on 3 May: "From 3 May, we will be able to lift the restrictions on travel within France....

In a few hours' time, Thomas Pesquet will take part in the Alpha mission and take command of the International Space Station (ISS): a first for a Frenchman, and an experience that ordinary mortals will never get close to. To compensate, Futuroscope has decided to launch a new hotel concept. The "Station Cosmos...

The TousAntiCovid application, long shunned and even scoffed at, is set to see its download rates soar over the coming weeks. The government has just decided to integrate test certificates and vaccination certificates into the application. This will transform the tool into a health pass, a new sesame being used by a growing number of...

The decision was finally taken very quickly. No sooner had flights to Brazil been banned than France decided to impose a compulsory ten-day quarantine, with tests to back it up, for all travellers from the country. [link-block prefix="Related news:" post="108317"] In an interview with France Info, epidemiologists explained that they...

Everyone has had the misfortune of seeing their metro tickets demagnetised because they have been exposed to another magnetic source. And, as more and more cards have magnetic strips, this type of incident has become a recurring occurrence. But the end of demagnetised tickets is approaching. The Board of Directors of Île-de-France Mobilités has approved...

The restriction of domestic routes to a two-and-a-half-hour rail journey, proposed as part of the Climate and Resilience Bill, has been adopted at first reading by the National Assembly. This first vote paves the way for the abolition of four air routes from Orly to Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes and Rennes. It will...

The transformation of the three billion euro loan into a capital increase by the French state in the airline Air France makes it a definitive aid for the company's survival. The four-year loan of three billion euros granted by the French government to Air France last year will no longer have to be repaid. In...

For many years, the most prestigious Air France agency faced the Pont Alexandre III in Paris. The Air France branch at Les Invalides was housed in a beautiful structure reminiscent of an orangery, built in 1900. Air France moved there in 1946. It housed an agency, a baggage check-in desk,...

The decision was very discreet. It received little press coverage. But it is important for all French expatriates living outside the European Union and EEA countries (Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland and the Vatican). From 12 March 2021, French nationals living outside the...

The rise of Transavia is now visible, as the carrier continues to strengthen its domestic and international network from its main bases. Nicolas Henin, Executive Vice President Commercial at Transavia, talks about the airline's prospects in an exclusive interview. Following the restructuring of Air France's domestic network, where do we stand today in terms of...

Jean Castex made it official on Thursday: since the evening of 19 March, confinement has once again been in force in 16 French departments, in Ile-de-France and Hauts-de-France, as well as in Alpes-Maritimes, Eure and Seine-Maritime. The measure will apply for at least four weeks, "unless positive results are observed in the meantime" ....