France

Flightright, one of Europe's leading providers of compensation to passengers affected by air travel disruptions, is warning that a new provision adopted by the French government will make it even more difficult for passengers to receive refunds. From 7 February 2026, a decree (reference 2025-772 of 5 August 2025) will apply. According to Flightright, the text...

The alarm had already gone off for Louvre Hotels. The first alarm sounded at the end of 2023, with the unveiling of a five-year strategic plan designed to relaunch Europe's second-largest hotel group, which had been losing momentum for some time. During a major overhaul of its offering, the former 'sleeping beauty'...

The Cassandras had predicted a difficult year for French air transport following the significant increase in taxation on the sector. Their prediction came true, with an effectively mediocre performance in 2025. According to the provisional results of the DGAC, France's air transport activity grew by just 2.8% last year, well below the...

Volotea's 12th base in France will therefore be Limoges airport. The low-cost airline made the decision on 28 January: it will base an Airbus A319 there from February. Volotea will operate this new public service delegation (DSP) from 19 February, the launch date of a new flight from Limoges to Paris-Orly....

A good year in 2025, but plenty of "buts". Pascal de Izaguirre, President of the Fédération Nationale de l'Aviation et de ses Métiers (FNAM), gave a contrasting assessment of the air transport sector at its New Year's event. On the positive side, the sector recorded "impressive figures"...

A convention and exhibition centre in the city centre, just a few minutes by metro from the station, in a fast-growing destination - and next door to the Stade Vélodrome - the Parc Chanot has big ambitions for the MICE (Meetings, Incentive, Convention, Events) sector in France and far beyond. The arrival of a new...

It's review time for the independent hotel industry. After Logis Hôtels, which recorded 23% growth in 2025 in its key offering for business travellers, the "soirées étapes", The Originals Hotels cooperative has also drawn up a positive balance sheet for the past year, with overall growth of +8.2 %...

SNCF has announced that it is buying 15 additional TGV M trainsets from Alstom for €600 million. The trains will be delivered from 2029 onwards, and are scheduled to operate between the Belgian Brussels-Midi station and major French cities other than Paris (such as Marseille and Lyon). With this contract, SNCF is raising...

On 29 June 2025, Transdev took over the operation of the Marseille-Toulon-Nice line following the successful tender launched by the Sud Provence Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region. It thus became the first contracted line in France to be opened up to regional competition. At the end of the first six months of operation, an initial assessment...

Volotea is clearly counting on connections between France and Algeria. And what better place than the capital to assert this ambition, especially from a leading airport for the business, leisure and affinity markets? The inauguration of a flight from Marseille to Algiers is the logical next step in the company's expansion...

The Logis Hôtels Group's good results are not due in vain to its corporate clientele. With sales of €309m for 2025, an increase of 161TP3Q vs 2024, the growth of its flagship product for business travel is even higher. Including dinner, overnight stay and breakfast,...

Bis repetita? After the disruption caused by the snow at the start of the week, the French transport system is facing a new challenge - and a major one. Storm Goretti will hit in a few hours' time. As of 8 January, 27 départements have been placed under Vigilance orange. La Manche has even been placed under red alert. What will...

Updated on 7 January at 10.00am. Auvergne - Rhône - Alpes Spark by Hilton Lyon Eurexpo (February) Spark by Hilton, a new brand launched by the American group at the top end of the economy segment, will continue to expand its network in France this year. It first appeared in Lyon in mid-summer 2025, with two hotels on the...

Alice Mafaity, who now oversees the 13 Hyatt hotels in France as Vice President France and also manages the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile hotel at Porte Maillot, travelled the world before returning to France to join the American group. Her international career, always with major groups, has given her the...

The Normandy Region's elected representatives confirmed their choice of RATP Dev as operator of the Caen hub rail services from July 2027. The RATP group subsidiary will take over from the SNCF on these lines from Caen to Coutances, Saint-Lô, Evreux, Cherbourg, Rouen,...

Just over two years after the first building was laid, the h2 conference centre was inaugurated with great fanfare on 6 December. Nearly 4,000 people flocked to the centre during the open afternoon, a sign of the public's interest in this new cultural and working facility. Why this name...

With a good twenty hotels added in the first quarter and another batch of openings in the second, the Accor group is continuing to strengthen its presence in its domestic market. Widely the leader in its field, the group added several establishments in the first half of the year, under its Handwritten Collection, Mercure and greet brands in particular. And their networks have...

High-speed development before a phase of consolidation in the years to come: Trenitalia has taken stock of a year 2025 full of new developments for the Italian company. Celebrating four years on the French railways this month, Trenitalia's first event in April was the reopening of the...

Follow in the footsteps of Albert Londres, Alfred Dreyfus, "Papillon", Ariane or even Asterix, the first satellite launched by the famous rocket... Wander through Cayenne or Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, discover the mangrove swamps, take a canoe trip along the border with Surinam, sleep in a hammock in a forest hut, literally touch history in the...

French Guiana had almost a dozen penitentiary centres, known as "bagne", which were used to remove those whom the successive regimes from 1852 to 1953 did not want in Metropolitan France, but also as a means of developing and populating the territory, for those who survived. Having built the town...