Germany

Will a single ticket (and possibly a single fare) for public transport be the big idea for European transport in 2023? Following the introduction of the €9 ticket last year in Germany - a promotion allowing travel for a month on all regional public transport - the success of the operation has led...

More comfort and flexibility for passengers. This is what Deutsche Bahn (DB) wants to achieve with the launch of electronic panels displaying the occupancy rates of its carriages in real time. Information on how full the carriages are is now transmitted directly to passengers on the platforms, in the carriages and also via...

Setting up in Germany for a French company? Many decision-makers would immediately think of Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich or Stuttgart. And yet, far from the prestige of setting up in one of these major German metropolises, there is one city that particularly attracts the French: Saarbrücken. A city that, with its 185,000...

Planning for the Digital Schiene Deutschland (Digital Rail Network in Germany) is gathering pace. The Federal Transport Minister, Volker Wissing, and the Director of Infrastructure at Deutsche Bahn (DB), Berthold Huber, signed agreements to this effect in Berlin on 8 December. As a result, the contract to finance this infrastructure has been increased from approximately...

Business travellers whose companies are both FREENOW for Business and American Express customers for the centralised payment of their travel expenses will no longer have to download their receipts after their errands, or create expense reports. In fact, these key players in the business travel sector, each in their own field, have decided to...

The budget brand Zleep Hotels, which first appeared near Copenhagen airport in 2003, is continuing to expand in its home country. Partly acquired in 2019 by the Deustche Hospitality group - parent company of the Steigenberger and InterCity Hotels brands, among others - the brand now has 15 establishments in Denmark, with the opening of...

Until now, business travellers have been exempt from paying tourist tax in Berlin hotels. The regional parliament has decided otherwise, and it is highly likely that from 2023 they will have to pay their share. Accommodation tax has existed in Germany for around ten years and, as in France, it varies...

October saw the IHG offer in Germany and Turkey grow in strength. Two successive announcements were published by the hotel group, which will be extending its accommodation options for business travellers to these two business destinations. In Germany, a contract has been signed with Solutions4Hotels GmbH for...

It is one of the European Union's major infrastructure projects. The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel began in 2020. It is one of a number of new constructions designed to improve mobility in Europe. The 18 km-long tunnel will be built on the Fehmarn Strait between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland....

Europa Park will be able to boost its MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Events) business thanks to the new Inoui TGV stop at Ringsheim/Europa Park station from 11 December onwards on the Paris-Fribourg-en-Brisgau service, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. This means that the theme park will be 2 hours 37 minutes from Paris-Est, 2 hours 19 minutes from...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) is continuing to improve its ICE offer with its 2023 timetable. Of course, this applies to domestic German lines, but it can also be an advantage for French travellers who prefer the train. For example, the densification of the Cologne-Munich line, with two ICEs per hour. As for trains...

The Hyatt group is going to give a real boost to its JdV brand in Europe. Expected to open in Bordeaux at the end of the year, this lifestyle brand, which promotes "Joie de Vivre" - hence JdV - has only recently made its appearance on the continent. To date, it has opened one hotel in Rome and three others in Sweden, in Stockholm and...

Lufthansa is once again pounding its fists on the issue of services to Munich airport. The German hub, the country's second busiest with 12.5 million passengers in 2021 (47.9 million in 2019), has a mediocre rail network. A handful of bus routes and two S-Bahn (suburban railway) lines link...

Updated on 6/09 at 5pm. After a strike which saw Lufthansa cancel more than 800 flights from Frankfurt and Munich last weekend, the German pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit called a new strike, this time for Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 September. The...

No fewer than 800 flights were cancelled on Friday by Lufthansa, whose operations are paralysed by a strike initiated by the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots' union. In other words, almost all of the airline's operations to and from its Frankfurt and Munich hubs have ground to a halt. A total of 130,000...

Following in the footsteps of Germany, where trains cost 9 euros during the summer, and Austria, which launched an annual pass for low-cost rail travel, Spain has now joined the list of countries that have made rail travel a major priority in the current crisis. Support for purchasing power, energy savings by limiting the use of fossil fuels,...

Accor, which has a strong presence in Germany, is strengthening its offering in the country with the opening of two new hotels in Münster: a Novotel and an Ibis Budget next door to each other. Known for its student life, historical heritage and widespread cycling, this city in the north-west of the country is also, like many German cities, a major tourist destination.

It's a world first. These days, Germany is seeing the first hydrogen-powered trains enter service, in this case the Coradia iLint regional train designed by Alstom. After two years of trials, this innovation is becoming a reality on the railway line linking Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervörde and Buxtehude, in Lower Saxony. "We are very proud to be able to bring this...

For any business traveller who visits Germany regularly, there is one hotel brand that is appearing more and more in major cities. The niu, a fast-growing three/four star lifestyle chain. The niu is part of the Novum Hospitality group, based in Hamburg. A company...

It's a success that has taken political and economic circles by surprise. In June alone, Germany sold 21 million transport tickets for 9 euros. These were in addition to the 10 million season tickets sold each month on local and regional lines. Fears of trains or transport...