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Like most hotel groups, is IHG satisfied with 2022 so far? Eric Viale - After a first quarter impacted by Omicron, we have seen a real upturn in business. Almost all our hotels are performing in line with, if not better than, 2019, with occupancy levels close to...

Both the major hotel groups and the main airlines can be delighted with the results presented for the third quarter of the year. The period was buoyed by leisure customers, and in particular the welcome upturn in long-haul travel, but also by a traditionally busy September for business travellers. The Accor group explains...

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...

Growing rapidly around the world, the contemporary voco brand is undoubtedly one of the brands of which the IHG group is most proud with, since its launch in 2018, some forty hotels already open and almost as many more in the pipeline for a presence in more than 25 countries. If this expansion were...

As Japan reopens its doors more widely to tourists, business travellers can now enjoy a new Hilton jumbo jet in Hiroshima, celebrating at the same time the opening of the brand's 600th hotel worldwide. Billed as "one of the largest MICE facilities in the Chugoku and Shikoku region", the hotel...

Since last spring, the global hotel industry seems to have drawn an almost definitive line under the troubled months and months. This upturn was confirmed by the results presented by the major groups in mid-summer. "Once again this quarter, Accor recorded very strong growth in its business, with sales exceeding...

Are we witnessing a reversal in the jurisprudence of hotel groups concerning their activities in Russia? Shortly after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, most of them announced the suspension of their future developments and investments in Russia. Some, such as Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott and Radisson, also decided to close...

Several new top-of-the-range hotels have been announced around the world in recent days. Starting with the opening of a Radisson Collection in Tirana, on the edge of the Albanian capital's Grand Park, a vast ocean of greenery that includes the presidential palace, the zoo and the botanical garden. After Berlin, Bilbao and...

Hotel groups are loving the round numbers this year. While Marriott, the world's leading group, passed the 8,000 hotels worldwide mark last March, IHG Hotels & Resorts has just reached the 6,000 mark. This milestone was duly celebrated on the New York Stock Exchange, where the...

One by one, the voco brand is completing its network of the world's major cities. After Doha, Seoul and Johannesburg in recent months, as well as Milan, the contemporary brand of the IHG group has added new addresses around the world, starting with a new establishment in Italy, in Venice. Comprising top-of-the-range hotels with...

After Porto in May 2021, Lisbon will soon have a Yotel establishment. Known for its innovative hotels, combining small, high-tech rooms with designer communal areas, the brand initially developed in airport areas is continuing its urban expansion. After Geneva and London this year, Yotel will be setting up in the Portuguese capital in 2024, with a...

The IHG Group's loyalty programme is changing its name to IHG One Rewards, rather than just IHG Rewards. The addition of "One" is a reminder that the British group was among the first to tackle the issue of customer loyalty in the hotel sector. But this new name...

The worldwide top 10 presented by the MKG Group confirms the hierarchy presented by Voyages d'Affaires last March. Marriott remains by far the world's leading group, the American hotel company having recorded growth of +4% in 2021. This represents growth in line with that of previous years, of +3.1% in 2020...

With the unveiling of IHG's first Atwell Suites aparthotel in Miami, the launch of new long-stay brands at Wyndham and Choice Hotels, and the accelerated development of Hyatt House hotels from Houston to Kansas City, not to mention Orlando and Sacramento airports, the long-stay hotel sector in the United States is growing from strength to strength. [link-block prefix="Read more...

Updated on 18 March "Ukraine will win". On 2 March, Ukraine's largest hotel group, Reikartz Hotel, clearly showed its support for the Russian invasion. With around sixty hotels in Kiev and some thirty towns across the country, the hotel group is bearing the full brunt of the war ravaging its country, having announced as early as...

After its first appearance in New York in the Lower East Side, the boutique brand Hotel Indigo has extended its offer in the American metropolis. This time, the IHG Group brand has moved closer to business, in the Wall Street district. Right in the heart of New York's Financial District, this hotel...

While Marriott has just opened its 8,000th hotel in the world - quite a symbol, since this hotel is located right next to the group's future new headquarters in Bethesda, on the outskirts of Washington - the American group remains the world leader in hotels, with almost 1.5 million rooms....

The hotel world can only rejoice after two years of severe turbulence linked to a pandemic that spared no region of the world. The cascade of results announced by the sector's leaders for the past year shows that most of them are back in the black. Marriott, the world's leading hotel group with...

Is it its resilience compared to the traditional hotel industry, recently highlighted by the pandemic? Or is it the way it responds to new customer expectations? Or is it the strength of its product, aimed as much at business travellers as at families and groups of friends? It's probably a bit of all of the above...

The avid and voco brands are vying for the status of the fastest growing brand within the IHG group. While the avid budget brand has just passed the 50-hotel mark with the opening of a hotel at Fort Lauderdale airport, and is continuing to expand in North America with the opening of a new hotel at the...