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The Hilton Group continues to expand in France. With a portfolio that has almost doubled in just five years, fuelled in particular by the recent arrival of its new premium budget brand Spark in Lyon, the American hotelier currently offers 14 hotels in Paris and the Île-de-France region. And soon one more with the DoubleTree by Hilton Paris Boulogne. The opening of...

Hilton has unveiled a major overhaul of its Hilton Honors loyalty programme, which will come into effect next January. The hotel group is launching a new elite level, Diamond Reserve, while lowering the thresholds for Gold and Diamond status. The Diamond Reserve level, which is new to the Hilton Honors programme, is aimed primarily at...

In addition to the current shutdown and its impact on air travel in the United States, budget cuts by federal and local agencies have been weighing on the results of the US hotel industry for several months now. In a climate of austerity in public spending and the forced departure of many civil servants, the sector has seen a source of revenue collapse...

A royal entrance. For the debut of its Waldorf Astoria luxury brand in London next year, the Hilton group could not have wished for a better location. Opposite Buckingham Palace, on the famous Admiralty Arch spanning the Mall, commissioned by Edward VII in memory of Queen Victoria. What was once the residence...

Higher, bigger: the Signia by Hilton brand embodies MICE in the American style, with hundreds and hundreds of rooms in its hotels, thousands of square metres for meetings and conferences, not to mention a host of bars and restaurants and relaxation areas to appeal to leisure customers too....

The beginnings of a beginning. The Hilton Group is expanding its lifestyle offering with a new brand collection called Outset. Literally 'the beginning'. But Outset is only the latest addition to the group's offensive in the contemporary hotel sector and its 'light' brands, the 'soft brands' designed to attract new customers to its fold.

The 10,000 hotel mark is within sight for the Hilton group. With three new hotels opening every day, the American hotel group has gone from 8,000 to 9,000 establishments in the space of a year. And there's no doubt that it will be able to keep up this pace of growth in the weeks and months to come, to reach more than...

The end of 2025 is shaping up to be as busy as ever for the Hilton Group. Among the major openings is the recent opening of the Conrad Hamburg, part of the historic Levantehaus building dating from 1910. This 283-room hotel is located on one of the German city's main commercial thoroughfares and, in addition to the...

Business travellers may not have realised it, but the Hilton group now has a new brand for its expansion in France: Spark by Hilton. Launched in Lyon in mid-summer, on the banks of the Saône, this brand positioned at the top end of the budget segment...

A gentle wake-up call for a venerable centenarian. A century after the opening of the first Hilton in Dallas in 1925, following Conrad Hilton's career debut six years earlier with the purchase of a hotel in Cusco, Texas, this most famous brand in the world of travel intends to give itself a new lease of life....

Waldorf Astoria is heading north. This year, the Hilton Group's luxury brand is set to make its Scandinavian debut in Helsinki. The American hotelier has just signed a management agreement with M&L Group to integrate the Hotel Maria, soon to be renamed Waldorf Astoria Helsinki, into its portfolio. Located in the...

With almost 150 hotels and a presence in 20 countries, Marriott already occupies a pre-eminent position among hotel groups in Africa, particularly since its takeover of Protea Hotels in the middle of the last decade. With its hundred or so establishments at the time, most of them in southern Africa, this South African group gave Marriott a...

While Accor plays on its strong partnerships with the world of football or tennis and its ALL loyalty programme with a Roland-Garros suite or rooms in honour of PSG, Hilton is doing the same with Formula 1. The American group has been a partner of the McLaren team for 20 years now, and is celebrating this anniversary...

After launching its first luxury hotel in the heart of the capital, the SAX hotel, the Hilton group is continuing its expansion in the Paris region with the announcement of its twentieth hotel in the Ile-de-France region. Expected to open in the summer, the hotel will expand the Tapestry Collection lifestyle brand in a destination that is as popular with business travellers as it is with leisure travellers.

Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) passed the 600-hotel mark at the end of last year. To go even further, would you now like to reach the 800 or even 1,000 hotel mark? What would be the right size for your group? Richard Hyde - That's a question we always struggle to answer...

Simplifying business travel payments is not the only concern of American Express or AirPlus. The Hilton Group is delighted to be the first hotelier in the world to use virtual payment. This is a step forward for travellers and companies, but above all for their agencies. In addition to the thousands of...

A breath of lifestyle in the chic and well-behaved 7th arrondissement: the SAX Paris hotel blends the hushed elegance befitting its neighbourhood with the distinctive elements of the contemporary hotel industry, from a disruptive events venue to a rooftop with a unique view over the whole of Paris, facing the Eiffel Tower. Owned by the Compagnie de...

One thing is certain: it won't be the Maison Heler, the hotel just opened in Metz, the brainchild of Philippe Starck. Nor, no doubt, will the SAX Paris, the Hilton Group's first luxury hotel in Paris, due to open in early April. So why not the Hilton Turin Centre or the...

This time it's the real deal. Initially scheduled for the end of 2021, the opening of Maison Heler in Metz has been announced many times and postponed just as many times, but has arrived just in time for the unveiling of the Michelin Guide awards in the city of Lorraine. It's been a long time coming for this project...

Hilton Garden Inn will be offering a new base for business travellers in Brussels from the end of October. The second hotel for the mid-range brand after the one in the city centre near Avenue Louise, this new establishment will be located in the business district next to the airport, in Diegem, within a complex...