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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...

IHG is heading south. This was already true in France, with the British group's latest developments taking place on the shores of the Mediterranean. It's just as true at continental level with the announcement of 10 forthcoming openings on the Iberian peninsula, some as early as this year, others by 2025. [link-block prefix="Read more...

With the fifth wave sweeping across France and Europe, how do you see 2022? Eric Viale - I'm approaching this year with cautious optimism, but with confidence. The good thing is that we now have the lessons to learn and the best practices to apply, in addition to scientific advances and vaccination efforts. We have...

Unveiled at the end of last summer by the IHG group, the Vignette Collection is beginning to take shape with the arrival of its first property, the Hotel X Brisbane Fortitude Valley, setting the tone for this new luxury brand. Intended to attract hotels with a unique character into the IHG fold, the Vignette Collection has been integrated into IHG's...

The IHG Group has just added a second establishment in France for its Hotel Indigo lifestyle brand. After opening in Paris, in the Opéra district, in 2014, it is now heading for the Mediterranean with a new hotel in Cagnes-sur-Mer. Thanks to its location along the coast, the establishment is aimed primarily at a clientele of...

As part of its Meet with Confidence programme, the IHG Group is adapting to the new demand for virtual and hybrid events. Presented last March, its hybrid meetings offer incorporated a technological solution designed by Weframe, which is now starting to be deployed in Europe....

Like other travel sectors such as air and rail, the global hotel industry is gradually returning to levels of activity that, while not reaching those of 2019, are well above those recorded last year. The results recently published by Accor, IHG and Hilton all bear witness to this marked recovery, and there can be no doubt that those published...

Its opening was announced by IHG in the spring and is now a reality: the InterContinental brand has just made its debut in Barcelona by completing the transformation of a former Crowne Plaza into a luxury hotel. Located on Montjuïc hill, the hotel offers 273 rooms with an elegant and sophisticated decor, including 17 suites...

In full expansion, the voco brand is expected in Seoul in the second quarter of 2022, after having conquered Paris, Singapore and, more recently, Milan. To make its entry into the South Korean market, the IHG Group's contemporary brand will be setting up in the heart of the capital, in the Gangnam business district, also known for its restaurants...

The IHG Group's French business has certainly been busy of late. After this summer's opening of two hotels near Nice airport, the launch of the Kimpton brand in Paris and, finally, the recent announcement of several projects on the Mediterranean coast, the British hotelier is strengthening its offer in a strategic location...

The Holiday Inn family of brands - Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express - continues to expand in the vicinity of European airports. At the beginning of the summer, the IHG group had already strengthened the offer of these functional, low-cost brands with a hotel located five minutes by tram from Nice Côte d'Azur airport,...

Hotel collections, designed to house independent hotels with character, are all the rage. IHG has proved this once again by launching a new luxury brand, the Vignette Collection, with a focus on luxury and lifestyle. Its arrival in the IHG range had already been announced at the beginning of August at the...