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It may not be the first zero-energy hotel for IHG, but it will be for Singapore and its Changi airport. While the British group awaits the opening next year of the voco Zeal Exeter Science Park, promised to be "zero carbon emission", its contemporary brand Hotel Indigo is going to imitate this eco-responsible positioning for its installation at...

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...

The Vignette Collection is set to double in size within a year. This grouping of non-standardised luxury hotels, launched in summer 2021, currently comprises 11 hotels, including the Casa da Companhia in Porto and the Convent Square in Lisbon, the Sindhorn Midtown hotel in Bangkok and the Yours Truly DC in Washington....

Last autumn, the IHG group had already enhanced the booking experience on its site by allowing its loyal customers to choose a room with a sea view or with a bath, to reserve access to the lounge or to select offers specific to each hotel. And it did so by relying on cloud solutions...

Partnerships between hotel groups and airlines are nothing new, or very surprising. Accor, IHG and Marriott on the one hand, and Air France, British Airways and United on the other, for example: these cross-relationships between these essential links in the travel chain now revolve around their loyalty programmes, organising links between points and...

One year after Marriott, IHG has just passed the symbolic milestone of 1,000 hotels in Asia-Pacific, including more than 700 in Greater China alone. Rajit Sukumaran, the British group's managing director for East Asia and the Pacific, hailed this as a "fantastic achievement". To achieve this result, IHG has been able to rely on the attractiveness...

Modified on 11/03 at 17:30 With a large number of hotels due to open around the world in 2023 and further growth expected in 2024, the world's leading hotel groups are offering business travellers new accommodation solutions around the globe. Focus on the development of each of the major international groups, as well as on the main...

Modified on 11/03 at 17:30 A strong focus on luxury and lifestyle, but also new mid-range brands, the continued expansion of their 'collections', hotel conversions and projects galore: the development of the major hotel groups is following broadly the same path. In fact, the Marriott group has consolidated...

A more than positive year in 2023 and new growth prospects in 2024: this assessment is shared by most of the major players in the global hotel industry, including Marriott, the world's leading group, which is reporting growth in revenue per room of almost 15 % in 2023 compared with 2022,...

With the gradual upturn in international travel since 2023, China remains an attractive destination for hotel groups. Marriott recently announced a partnership with the Delonix group, which operates more than a thousand hotels in the country under a dozen different brands. The plan is to affiliate around a hundred hotels over the next few years...

It's rather surprising for one of the world's leading hotel groups, but IHG has not had a presence in one of Northern Europe's major markets, Sweden, for some time. A temporary incongruity, since the British group will be making its comeback at the end of 2024 with the opening of the Voco Stockholm Kista. A top-of-the-range...

The IHG group is gradually approaching the 70 hotel mark in France. This expansion is taking place through a more diversified offering, with the arrival of new brands such as the luxury and lifestyle brand Kimpton, which will appear in Paris in 2021, and now Staybridge Suites. This predominantly long-stay brand has just made its debut on the...

The luxurious Regent Hong Kong has regained the pre-eminent position it held for so long, standing on the edge of Victoria Harbour since the early 1980s. Quoting the ferries that cross the bay from Kowloon, the hotel became part of IHG in the mid-2010s, under the InterContinental banner. Coming full circle...

The result of the transformation of a former Holiday Inn, voco Paris Porte de Clichy opened its doors in September 2023. Redesigned by the architect Oscar Lucien Ono and his Maison 20, it features a restaurant concept - Romcoco - created by Paris Society Consulting, as well as 11 meeting rooms and a meeting room...

There are areas where it's better to get along than compete. The future of the planet is certainly one of them. Already members of the Sustainability Hotel Alliance, five of the world's largest groups have decided to go one step further by joining forces to accelerate the shift towards...

Ahead of one of the year's flagship openings, scheduled for October at the luxurious Fifth Avenue, New York has seen the arrival of a new voco hotel close to LaGuardia airport, in the Flushing district. The voco Fiorello - LaGuardia East is the fourth property in the IHG Group's contemporary brand, offering 114 rooms for travellers...

Choose a room with a view, select two beds rather than a double, opt for lounge access: the IHG Group website is enriching the booking experience for travellers. This evolution takes advantage of next-generation cloud solutions, notably through IHG's partnership with Amadeus. "We are setting a new standard...

The opening of the FirstName hotel last year, the new lifestyle face of the Burdigala, which is due to return to business this month, and soon a Mondrian establishment designed by Philippe Starck: contemporary hotels are all the rage in Bordeaux. This autumn, the Gironde city will have the privilege of welcoming the Hotel Indigo brand, part of the...

The conversion of existing hotels is certainly one of the current trends in the development of major hotel groups. IHG has seen this in particular with the rapid growth of its Voco brand since its launch in 2018, and now close to a hundred establishments open or in the pipeline. To continue in this vein and complete its range of...

As August draws to a close, the Australian hotel scene is confirming its dynamism. Alongside the arrival of Moxy in Sydney, another lifestyle brand is making its debut in Melbourne. Hotel Indigo Melbourne on Flinders has just opened on the eponymous thoroughfare. 216 rooms await business travellers, with the leitmotif being a tribute to...