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A club that is no longer so exclusive. Five hotel groups can indeed boast of being millionaires in terms of room numbers. This is what emerges from the Top 10 of global hospitality recently unveiled by the MKG and Hospitality On consultancy. The British group IHG thus joins Marriott, the first to have crossed...

"That I, me, love Frida." By choosing the new hotel opened by the lifestyle brand Ruby for their next business trip to Stockholm, business travellers will undoubtedly have a tune by Brel in mind, imagining themselves in this house "where it will be good to be". And if it's not certain, when is it...

But where is Charlie? The teams at Choice Hotels could easily answer that: within the American group’s operational platforms. Available 24/7, this AI-powered virtual “teammate” meets staff needs, provides insights, and reduces the time spent on their questions. Before this…

As long as the growth algorithm remains intact, all is well. The war in the Middle East, which broke out on February 28th, has not darkened the horizon for the major hotel groups. The results presented for the first quarter of 2026 – admittedly, only one-third affected by the conflict – show no signs of…

A five-star development: IHG is set to take over several Penta Hotels to transform them into one of its brands, Holiday Inn, voco, and Garner, by early 2027. This development follows the conclusion of long-term franchise agreements with investment companies Ogilvy Management and Ironstone Group, who have taken over a…

The milestone of 150,000 rooms in Europe has been passed, with a total of over 1,200 hotels open or under development in some forty countries: the IHG group, already among the main players in the hotel industry on the continent with Accor and Louvre Hotels, has further expanded its footprint. Over the course of...

If further proof were needed that hotel conversions are the most prolific way for hotel groups to grow, the Garner brand has just provided it. Launched in August 2023 by the IHG group, this mid-range brand, adapted to business travellers with work spaces in rooms and common areas, has been...

Somewhere between James Bond and Fellini. To make its debut in Rome, Ruby Hotels drew inspiration from the location - former offices of the Italian Ministry of the Interior - as well as from the dolce vita of its host city, magnified by the Italian film director. The design of its new hotel, which has just opened its doors, plays...

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...

IHG Hotels & Resorts is setting out its ambitions for voco in Southern Europe. The hotel group has just announced nine contracts for future openings, bringing its European network to 35 properties in operation and 22 under development. "We are delighted to see voco continue its impressive growth," commented Eric Viale, President of IHG Hotels & Resorts.

To you, to me. While the Crowne Plaza Corum in Montpellier has recently been rebranded as a Radisson Blu, the Radisson Blu in Marne-la-Vallée is about to experience the opposite fate. The IHG group has just announced that it is to take over the hotel, in partnership with Danish property company Proark, and transform it into the Crowne Plaza...

Is it the new voco Malta hotel in the seaside resort of St. Julian's, or the luxurious Kimpton Mas Olas resort in Mexico, recently opened just outside Los Cabos? Or how about the Holiday Inn Kyoto Gojo, marking the return of one of IHG's flagship brands to this historic city? The 183-room Holiday Inn Kyoto Gojo...

The hotel boom in Diamniadio, Senegal, is set to continue. With the opening of the new Blaise Diagne international airport and the TER (regional express train) link connecting the new town to Dakar and the Senegalese hub, Diamniadio is boosting its capacity to receive travellers and at the same time establishing itself as the new hub of the Senegalese economy. It is in this context that...

A future Mecca for business events in the UK. In fact, it already is, as the Hilton Manchester Deansgate boasts almost 2,000 m² of MICE space. But this establishment, which is housed in the Beetham Tower, one of the country's tallest skyscrapers outside London, will soon be changing hands to become a...

Having just joined the IHG Group, lifestyle brand Ruby Hotels has unveiled a new project in Geneva. This will be its second hotel in the Swiss metropolis. After transforming three office buildings located above the Passage Malbuisson, between Rue du Rhône and Rue du Marché, the brand, which focuses on...

As part of its expansion in Germany, the IHG group is to roll out a new extended-stay brand hitherto unknown in Europe: Candlewood Suites. Launched in 1995 by Jack DeBoer, one of the pioneers of the extended stay concept and the man behind Residence Inn by Marriott, the brand was taken over by IHG in 2004 and now boasts...

It would be hard to find a more symbolic location in the heart of Frankfurt's financial district: the former headquarters of Deutsche Bank. Kimpton, the luxury and lifestyle brand of the IHG group, is part of the transformation of the office tower which, until the middle of the last decade, housed the staff of Germany's leading bank. The first...

Having just acquired Ruby Hotels last February, the IHG group is capitalising on the interest in this lifestyle brand by announcing the signing of two hotels in the pipeline in major European destinations, Copenhagen and Berlin. The German-born brand, whose concept revolves around 'lean luxury', currently has nine hotels across the Rhine -...

Strategic acquisitions, the expansion of new brands focused on conversion - the current driving force behind hotel development - but also, and above all, the constantly renewed appeal of their historic brands: the world's hotel leaders have played on all these ranges to increase their hotel portfolios and feed their pipelines of new projects....

A business clientele back at roughly 2019 levels, accelerating demand from MICE groups, combined with a leisure clientele that continues to develop at high altitudes: all of this is helping to put a smile on the faces of hotel group managers. The results for 2024, presented in quick succession over the last few days, show...