Germany

Opened for the Munich Olympic Games in 1972, the Hilton Munich Park hotel will soon be taking a long break after some fifty years in business. Only to come back even stronger, following a four-year renovation programme scheduled to reopen in 2029. The rejuvenation of this major business hotel with...

The Hilton Group has found its first home in Germany for its new Spark by Hilton economy brand. "This is an important step in the brand's expansion following its successful launch and rapid growth in the US," said Patrick Fitzgibbon, Hilton's senior vice president of development for the EMEA region. Launched in September...

From partnership to acquisition completed on 28 June: Hyatt has a new upmarket lifestyle brand, Me and All, the result of its collaboration with the family-owned Lindner Hotels group. Since 2022, this well-known player in the German hotel industry has been associated with the American group through a franchise agreement covering...

For the next month, from 14 June, football fans will be turning their attention to the ten German cities hosting the Euro Football Championship. These include Stuttgart, which is hosting five matches, including a quarter-final. The capital of the Baden-Württemberg region is hoping this will boost its tourist numbers, which stand at around...

On 1 May, a further increase in air taxes for passengers came into force in Germany. And it's a substantial one: +19%, i.e. a tax that now ranges from €15.53 to €70.83 depending on the route. This increase has sent airlines into a frenzy. "At a time when Germany's economic performance is at a...

The IHG Group is strengthening its position in Germany, a key European market for business travellers. While the British hotelier currently has around a hundred hotels in Germany, another hundred or so will be added to its range over the next 24 months. These will come from a well-known German group, Novum Hospitality, with which IHG has signed a franchise agreement...

It was intended to be a French response to the €49 monthly Deutschland Ticket launched by the German government to stimulate demand for trains and public transport. French President Emmanuel Macron and his then Transport Minister, Clément Beaune, had promised a discounted France Rail Pass in 2023. It...

A true home base. Germany's second city is home to many of the Accor group's brands, from the prestigious Fairmont Vier Jahreszeiten to the Mövenpick Hamburg, located in a former water tower in the heart of Sternschanzenpark, from the lifestyle 25Hours Hamburg HafenCity to the residential Adagio Access, not forgetting the classic Ibis,...

Five months of bitter negotiations and a string of strikes. All this has finally resulted in an agreement between Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the German locomotive drivers' union (GDL). "The conflict was tough, but we were able to agree on an intelligent compromise", said the head of personnel at the DB.

Adagio recently presented excellent results for 2023, with occupancy close to 80%. What are you expecting in 2024? Xavier Desaulles - First of all, a return to normal. With an occupancy rate of 79% in 2023, it will be difficult to do much better in terms of passenger numbers, while at the same time...

What was for years the pride of Germany, the social consensus, seems to have become a thing of the past. Germany is once again preparing for strikes, barely a week after the last ones in the transport sector. At Lufthansa, the cabin crew union has called a strike...

Could it be environmental awareness, the new status of videoconferencing or, more simply, soaring ticket prices? The fact remains that business travel is struggling to return to its former levels among German companies. According to the AirPlus Business Travel Index report published on 13 February, flight bookings have certainly risen...

By 2022, Austrian railways had already set a record with almost 467 million passengers. Of this total, 42 million travelled on long-distance services, including 14.7 million on international routes. By 2023, estimates put the figure at over 480 million. In addition to the creation of new rail lines, the...

Another warning strike by the Verdi union in Germany. This time it will affect Lufthansa ground staff at five German airports - and not the least. The hubs affected include Frankfurt and Munich, as well as Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. For Verdi, the proposals put forward by Lufthansa's...

The respite in German transport was short-lived. No sooner had the strike at Deutsche Bahn ended on Monday evening than other branches began to strike. The VERDI union has announced a strike at German airports on 1 February. The strike will affect virtually every airport in the country. In...

Conquering new markets and carving out a place for itself in a new segment: the Motel One group is pursuing these two objectives through its new brand, The Cloud One, with a dozen hotels due to open by 2026 in Europe and the United States. Brought to Germany for business purposes, as well as to a number of major European cities, the...

After announcing its establishment in the temple of rugby, Twickenham stadium, Radisson RED should also be in time for the big event of the year concerning the round ball: Euro 2024 in Germany. Between now and the end of spring, the Radisson Group brand will be setting up in a city that matches its spirit...

The latest strike action on German trains, two weeks after the previous one, is taking place against a backdrop of extremely tense social conditions. Deutsche Bahn is in open conflict with the GDL (Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer) union, which is calling on its members to go on strike from 24 January. The strike is due to end...

While we await the arrival of Ruby Hotels in France - a first establishment has been announced in Marseille - it is in Stuttgart that the latest lifestyle hotel makes its debut this January. As usual, the Munich-based group didn't fail to give its new address a 'little name', and the name of the...

Deutsche Bahn had hoped for a last-minute miracle following the announcement of a general train strike from 10 to 12 January by the GDL railway workers' union. DB had twice appealed to the Labour Court (Arbeitsgericht) in Frankfurt to prevent the strike. The court rejected Deutsche Bahn's injunction to...