France

"A city on the move": the mayor of Reims, Arnaud Robinet, praises the revival that is currently gripping the Champagne city. Known the world over for its exceptional wine and majestic cathedral, the region's capital is determined to establish itself as a must-see destination. This new-found tourist power is reflected in the move upmarket...

Announced at the end of last year, Radisson Blu's arrival in Montpellier is now a reality. After a phase of renovation and modernisation, the top-of-the-range brand is taking over the history of the Crowne Plaza Corum, which opened at the beginning of the last decade just a stone's throw from the Corum Convention Centre and the...

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"If they wanted to kill French air transport, they wouldn't have done it any other way". Thomas Juin, Director of La Rochelle Airport but above all President of the Union of French Airports (UAF), is bitterly disappointed. The increase in taxation in 2025 combined with the accelerated withdrawal of the State from its sovereign responsibilities...

Bobigny is set to become the new destination for an increasingly dense IWG network in France. The HQ Bobigny Irrigo site will be inaugurated on Monday by the giant IWG (International Workplace Group). It will bring to 41 the number of group sites in the Paris suburbs alone, in addition to the 35 IWG addresses in Paris itself....

From 9 July, Bordeaux airport will have a new flight to Toulon. Transavia is planning two flights a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Air France's low-cost subsidiary is of course banking on leisure customers, but business travellers could also contribute to the success of this new flight. The harbour of...

To begin with, let's take a look back at 2024. How did the year go, marked by the hosting of the Olympic Games in Paris, but also by a lull before the event? Olivier Cohn - 2024 was a very special year, with no regularity or visibility. After a good start to the year, we experienced a fairly sharp drop in business in April...

An Olympic year, an atypical year. This is how InExtenso sums up hotel activity in France 2024, marked by accommodation sales close to those recorded the previous year. With the occupancy rate down 1 pt, to 64%, and the average price continuing to rise - +2%, to €127 - revenue per room was up on the previous...

Different fortunes. United by the same desire to attract luxury hotels into the fold of their respective groups, one got off to a fast start and the other took longer to take shape. Launched three years ago by the IHG group, the Vignette Collection is following the path it set out for itself,...

Whether you like Ryanair or not, the Irish ultra-low-cost carrier is Europe's leading airline: 197.1 million passengers carried in 2024, 94 bases in 37 European countries, 237 destinations and 610 aircraft. Its success is reflected in the load factor of its aircraft: 92% in the third quarter of its financial year...

Business hotels in Europe's major cities saw moderate growth in both prices and occupancy in 2024. These are the findings of the business hotel barometer, designed by research firm MKG in partnership with hotel reservation specialist CDS Groupe. For 2023, the same barometer showed...

Air transport is growing in Germany, but perhaps not as much as hoped. These are the findings of the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), which has just published the results for 2024 for Germany's 22 main airports. These airports handled 211.4 million passengers. This represents an increase of 7.7 1Q3 on the previous year.

François Bayrou unleashed his first 49.3 on the 2025 budget on Monday 3 February in the National Assembly. With the rejection of two motions of censure tabled on 5 February, France's 2025 budget has finally been adopted. It still has to go through the Senate, however, but it is unlikely that any major changes will be made to the...

The major international groups do not have a monopoly on business customers. The results presented by two leading representatives of the independent French hotel industry bear this out. Logis Hotels has outstripped Accor in terms of the number of establishments in France - almost 2,000 in total - and has recorded very significant growth in its revenue...

The rejection of the budget and the fall of the Barnier government had frozen the application of the increase in the solidarity tax on airline tickets (TSBA). The Bayrou government has since set about bringing it back into force. The Joint Committee of seven MPs and seven senators finally confirmed the return of the increase...

Against all expectations, it is the SNCF that will retain the operation of the Nantes-Bordeaux and Nantes-Lyon lines, the lots for which were put out to tender as part of the opening up of rail services to competition. The announcement was made by Philippe Tabarot, the French Minister for Transport. The offer from [SNCF Voyageurs] offers a better quality of service," he said.

79.4% of total passengers in 2019 in 2023; a figure that falls to 75.4% in 2024. DGAC statistics prove it. Domestic traffic in France is collapsing year after year. With a definite acceleration since the Covid period. Last year, 20.2 million passengers took a flight on domestic routes...

This is certainly no coincidence. After the Paris airports, the two largest French airports in terms of passenger traffic are located in the south of France. In 2024, Nice will be back to its pre-covid level, flirting with 15 million passengers. Last year, the Côte d'Azur hub recorded growth of 3.5%,...

The Single European Sky and the operational management of air transport, fleet renewal and (large) grains of sand in supply chains, but also, of course, taxation: the General Meeting of BAR France - the Board of Airlines Representatives association has been bringing together representatives of the major airlines for over 75 years now - provided an opportunity...

Updated on 22 January at 2.30pm. The number of certified tourist accommodations has tripled in three years, and the Green Key label has grown for the fifth year running. After an increase of 45% in the number of certified establishments last year, the same trend has been recorded this year. Among the new 2,428 award winners, compared with 1,665 last year, more than...