France

Stay at home... but with us. In the current context, with their intermediate offer between traditional hotels and flat rental, hotel residences could undoubtedly reappropriate the flagship slogan of confinement. "We are convinced that the hotel apartment concept can reassure hesitant or cautious travellers, giving them greater independence and a sense of security.

While the government has just unveiled the details of the second phase of deconfinement - and the return to mobility in France and then Europe - Nice airport is doing the sums. And at a time when many players in the travel industry are counting their losses and waves of redundancies, this is yet another...

And that's ten for Okko Hotels. The lifestyle and business brand has reached the milestone of ten establishments with the addition of a new address in the heart of Toulon, briefly unveiled before the lock-up, but which opens its doors in full on 2 June. For business travellers passing through the Var, the location...

The Lodge & Spa Collection is getting ready to unveil its new jewel, the fourth from this group specialising in luxury mountain hotels. Accustomed to naming its establishments after the biggest diamonds in the world, such as Koh-I Nor in Val Thorens, Taj-I Mah in Arc 2000 and Daria-I Nor in...

How did the Wojo sites cope with this period of confinement? Stéphane Bensimon - Our sites remained accessible during the lockdown, but without reception or catering services. However, very few people visited our sites, or just popped in to collect their things. That's all in the past...

Masks compulsory, one train out of two for daily journeys before rapidly increasing to three out of four, a limited number of TGVs: as information is given to the various national newspapers, the SNCF is setting out its transport plan for the period after 11 May. While travel will remain limited to 100...

Will the conference and seminar business pick up as expected after the summer? Philippe Augier - For the moment, all events have either been cancelled or postponed. Will events be able to resume in September? A lot will depend on the health conditions in which the events can be organised. At present, we have no visibility. However, the health aspect...

Freedom of movement, but subject to conditions. Although deconfinement will take place on 11 May as announced, travel will still be largely restricted, and will only be authorised within a limit of 100 km, except for compelling professional or family reasons. The release from confinement will therefore take place "gradually" and "cautiously", in the words of...

The confinement measures applied in France since Tuesday, the closure of the Schengen area to visitors from outside the European Union and the United Kingdom, and the lifting of European rules on the compulsory use of slots - those famous time slots at the most congested airports - have resulted in a collapse in air traffic....

2019 was an extremely positive year for Best Western, both globally and in France. On a global scale, the hotel group, which has 4035 hotels in total, including 417 new affiliates in 2019, saw sales generated by the central reservation system rise by 17.4 1TP3Q. In France, despite...

Hilton is continuing to grow in France at an accelerated pace. From 15 establishments at present, the American group is preparing to double in size by 2022. And this after having already doubled its offering over the last four years. Hilton is proud to have opened more hotels in France than at any time in its history.

As part of its commitment to the environment - and while the Flygskam ("shame of flying") movement originating in Sweden is gaining ground - the government is now taking all the necessary measures to join the virtuous circle of an exemplary State in terms of energy transition. Last Wednesday, a plan was presented to the Ecological Defence Council, including a...

Since the end of January, business travellers have had access to a new budget hotel option for their trips to Auvergne. The Eklo hotel has opened in Clermont-Ferrand, just 5 minutes from the station. The new establishment has a total of 84 double or twin rooms, in addition to three family rooms and five...

With flying colours. Now that its first phase is almost complete in Marseille, Euroméditerrannée has achieved all its objectives, transforming this area encompassing the Joliette and Belle de Mai districts, as well as the former docks and the Rue de la République as far as the Old Port, into a vast business district...

France's leading business hub after La Défense, the Lyon Part-Dieu business district is entering the 21st century and becoming a testing ground for the city of the future. A responsible smart city where quality of life will be enhanced by public spaces, including the planting of 600 trees, and the creation of...

Spread over 150 hectares, just a fifteen-minute walk from the city centre, the Euralille project was conceived back in the 1980s, when Pierre Mauroy, then Mayor of Lille, planned to build a station for the TGV Nord high-speed train line on the site vacated by the old fortifications that surrounded it. The surrounding area was to be the site of a...

"Euratlantique is a unique project in France in terms of its scale, since it will eventually offer 2.5 million m2 of mixed urban development, with housing and businesses of all kinds", says Stephan Delaux, Bordeaux's economic development officer. The project, which began in the late 2000s, is concentrated mainly around the railway station...

Despite a number of centres of excellence and R&D centres that have recently sprung up on the outskirts of the city, and despite the city's dynamism and desire to live in the modern world, Toulouse has not, until now, had a business district as such. As a result, the supply of office space was clearly insufficient. The cornerstone of Toulouse's identity...

Archipelago! What a programme! Located around the European Parliament, to the north of Strasbourg, this vast business district project will combine offices, housing and hotels, becoming the flagship of both the city and the European institutions. The development that is currently taking place in the Wacken sector will take place in two stages, with the aim of...

By 2020, Nantes station, France's sixth-largest regional station, should be connected to the European transport network. That's why it was necessary to transform the station in order to accommodate the increased number of passengers. Currently used by 12 million passengers, it is expected to receive 25 million by 2030, especially as traffic, fuelled by...