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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...

"Air Caraïbes and French Guiana began in 2008 with the opening of the Paris-Cayenne route. Since then, the link has gone from strength to strength, as we have accompanied the growth of the region and the mobility needs of our leisure, tourism and business customers. French Guiana is a destination that is still often little-known, and which is...

Originally founded by the space base to accommodate its staff on holiday and VIP guests during rocket launches, Camp Maripas was taken over in 2024 by Thomas Saunier, vice-president of the Compagnie des Guides de Guyane. Today, it is a popular venue for daytime seminars for up to 100 people...

Built by and for convicts, Saint-Laurent du Maroni still bears the scars of this painful French history. The transportation camp gives travellers a real insight into the life of the convicts. With moving images, such as the location of the guillotine - a small square area that travellers unconsciously walk around -...

Barrière Hotels is changing its name to Barrière Collection. A name that could not be more fashionable in the hotel world and which, as part of a new segmentation of its offer, is even taking the form of four distinct sub-collections. One, the Signature Collection, brings together the gotha of the family group now chaired by...

Spain, Portugal, France: this is the trifecta for MICE in 2026, according to forecasts unveiled on 3 December by FCM Travel. Organisers of major business events are particularly keen on Malaga, Marbella, Madrid and Barcelona. These destinations benefit from their potential in terms of infrastructure, their accessibility by air and their...

With more than 300 hotels across France, the Best Western network offers a wide choice of places to stay in the regions and Ile-de-France. There's something for business travellers, but also, more generally, for professionals on the move. In 2020, Best Western France launched its own brand of...

Île-de-France Mobilités will be spending €3.8 billion in 2026 to improve rail transport in the Ile-de-France region, in conjunction with RATP, Transilien SNCF Voyageurs, SNCF Réseau and SNCF Gares & Connexions. In a press release, the organisation explains that "the maintenance and modernisation of rail transport infrastructure is an absolute priority in order to guarantee...