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Reaching into their pockets to bolster their lifestyle offering: recently, hotel groups have not been shy about making acquisitions to bolster their brand portfolios with trendy hotels. After Hilton's takeover of NoMad and Graduate in spring 2024, Hyatt's takeover of...

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,...

Holiday Inn Express is joining the trend with the introduction of a new lobby concept for hotels in the wider Europe, Middle East, Asia & Africa region. While "the roll-out of a new generation of rooms is underway", as Eric Viale, IHG's Managing Director for Southern Europe, explained in a recent interview, the most...

You head up the Southern Europe region for the IHG Group. What is your outlook for 2025? Eric Viale - We are approaching the coming year with great confidence, buoyed by a solid first half of 2024, marked by growth of around +4 % in revenue per room for IHG in Europe compared with...

Crowne Plaza, the upmarket, business-focused brand of the IHG Group, has just arrived at Sydney Airport. Its arrival was made possible by the conversion and upgrading of a former Holiday Inn, which had already seen all its 252 rooms refurbished by 2022 to meet the new brand's standards.

Buoyed by the continuing growth in the number of potential customers around the world, the luxury hotel sector remains a key growth driver for hotel groups. The openings expected next year by Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and IHG only serve to confirm this. "The global demand for unforgettable stays and sophisticated accommodation is undeniable", says...

The IHG group is taking full advantage of its franchise agreement with the Novum Hospitality group to expand its position in Germany. Of the hundred or so hotels that have joined the group, some that previously carried the The niu brand are in the process of joining the Holiday Inn brand, while others are moving towards the long-stay Candlewood Suites brand....

After the strong winds of travel revenge in the leisure sector, business travel and events are taking over to bolster the performance of hotel groups. Accor, IHG, Hilton and Marriott all agree with this assessment, as they announced their third-quarter results and took part in a question-and-answer session with...

New York's hotel icons are each reinventing themselves. Soon, in the spring of 2025, the city will welcome back one of its iconic addresses, the Waldorf Astoria. The largest hotel in the world when it opened in 1931, this monument to American hospitality closed its doors in March 2017. Bankruptcy of its owner, the insurer...

The Radisson and IHG groups have both announced major developments in Italy. While Radisson has completed five new projects and expects to open seven establishments in the country, IHG is continuing to expand its Six Senses luxury wellness brand. Established in Rome in 2023, in the former Palazzo Salviati...

IHG has passed the 200-hotel mark in Northern Europe, with almost the same number of establishments to come: IHG is strengthening its position in this key market which, for the British group, includes the countries of Eastern Europe as well as Scandinavia and Germany. In the latter country, the growth in the offer is particularly noticeable, with IHG beginning to draw...

The Vignette Collection is taking to the skies in Dubai. The IHG Group, which is launching this collection of luxury hotels in 2021, has signed a franchise agreement with The First Group to put the brand on the world's tallest tower dedicated entirely to high-end hotels. A 365-metre skyscraper...

It's not quite a combo, but it's close. Two new hotels, developed by the Borealis group, have just opened next door to each other, around ten minutes from Brussels airport and close to NATO headquarters and the offices of numerous companies, including Honeywell, 3M and EY. Both are...

The IHG Group's return to the Swedish market has taken an eminently business-oriented route with a prime location for business travellers and tech professionals: the Kista district, in the northern suburbs of Stockholm. The local Silicon Valley, Europe's largest cluster dedicated to information and communication technologies, is...

The Voco brand, part of the IHG group, has made its breakthrough around the world using a model that is very much in vogue in the hotel industry: the conversion of existing hotels. But it's a different kind of conversion that the top-of-the-range brand is about to embark on in Angers: the transformation of the imposing...

Heavy eyelids in the middle of the day, but eyes wide open in the middle of the night; difficulty falling asleep in the evening: long-haul travellers know the effects of jet lag off by heart. One of the main causes of travel-related fatigue, and one that the luxury chain...

In recent weeks, hotel groups have taken it in turns to present their progress in the area of eco-responsibility. In its Serve 360 report - named after the platform that guides the group's CSR efforts - Marriott outlined the progress it has made in recent years...

Grape Hospitality owns or manages around a hundred hotels under franchise from Accor, IHG and Louvre Hotels. Let's look back at the origins of your group. Frédéric Josenhans - The adventure began in 2016 with the acquisition of 85 businesses from the Accor group. With our shareholders, i.e. Eurazeo for 70% and AccorInvest for...

The IHG group is continuing its expansion in Portugal. Having recently added a number of fine hotels to its portfolio, such as the luxurious Vignette Collection hotels, the Casa da Companhia in Porto and the Convent Square in Lisbon, which revisits a former Dominican convent dating back to the 13th century, the group now has around twenty...

After making its French debut in Cannes at the end of last year, IHG's Staybridge Suites extended-stay brand will be stepping up its expansion in Europe over the next few years. Already present in the United Kingdom, with a presence in London and a number of major British cities including Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff, Dundee, Liverpool and Newcastle, the brand will...