Istanbul

A shared past, a likeness to modernist architecture, but a different future. In the 1950s-60s, the Hilton hotels in Athens and Istanbul marked the international debut of the brand. Opened in 1955 as what was the very first hotel built outside the United States after the war, the Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus still retains it...

AirAsia X, the long-haul arm of the AirAsia group, is returning to Europe more than 13 years after ceasing services to Paris and London from Kuala Lumpur. At the time, the AirAsia group explained the withdrawal of its subsidiary by the surge in oil prices, the increase in air taxes and the introduction of the...

Moxy is writing a new page in its history by setting off to discover a new market: Turkey. And for this grand debut, the brand has chosen an unmissable destination - Istanbul - and a strategic address: the Beyoğlu district. The Moxy Istanbul Beyoğlu has now opened its doors just a few steps...

The world's leading hotel companies are placing particular emphasis on their development in Turkey. This is a key market where Hilton is approaching the 100-establishment mark and Accor the 80 mark, while Marriott has around fifty hotels, most of them in Istanbul. For its part, the Radisson group is making progress towards its target of 100 hotels by 2010.

Since 1955 and the opening of the Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus, one of its first hotels outside the United States, the American group has continued to strengthen its offer in the Turkish metropolis. From Hampton to Conrad, not forgetting the Curio Collection and DoubleTree, a host of brands are present here, for a total of 28 hotels today. And...

With 48 hotels in Turkey, including around thirty in Istanbul alone, the Marriott group is not entering uncharted territory. However, the American hotelier has no intention of stopping there. Its expansion plan will soon see the opening of 13 new hotels, with a total of 2,000 rooms. Contracts have recently been signed for a number of...

Turkish Airlines and Thai Airways International signed a memorandum of understanding in Istanbul at the beginning of August with a view to the creation of a joint venture between the two airlines. This is an important step in strengthening cooperation between the two national carriers. Istanbul is strategically located to serve as a gateway to the rest of Europe.

The opening of a Peninsula hotel is always an event, as the Asian hotelier has only had ten addresses in the world since the inauguration of Peninsula Paris eight years ago. It is undoubtedly the hallmark of luxury to know how to make people wait. Announced in the middle of the last decade, its eleventh hotel, the Peninsula Istanbul,...

Admittedly, the programme announced by Transavia to Dakar and Istanbul is still too timid for most business travellers. And the low-cost airline makes no secret of the fact that it is targeting "passengers who want to meet up with family and friends and get away to the sun in winter". But the announcement of these two...

A change of name, but above all a move upmarket for the Radisson group in Turkey. Its former Radisson Blu Vadistanbul hotel has been upgraded to Radisson Collection, its rapidly expanding luxury brand. "We are proud to strengthen our presence in Istanbul (...) with the ambition of becoming the largest operator...

The range of business destinations served by Transavia from Montpellier airport will soon be extended to Madrid. Air France's low-cost carrier announced on Tuesday that it will be linking Montpellier airport to Barajas from 30 October. Two flights a week are scheduled every Thursday and Sunday. "Transavia is confirming and consolidating its growth by adding...

It's late afternoon and Istanbul's trendy young people are frequenting the old warehouses in the Tersane district, which is hosting a contemporary art exhibition. While the DJs jam to their consoles, visitors admire and buy the works of art. Unless, of course, they are simply watching the sun set over the Golden Horn...

Istanbul continues to attract international hotel chains, an attraction made all the more real by the dynamism of local investors, encouraged in particular by Turkey's central government. By launching major infrastructure projects, the government is also promoting local capitalism, which is benefiting from this. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:"...

Getting there Air France and Turkish Airlines operate daily flights from Paris CDG to Istanbul International and Sabiha Gokcen in the Asian part of the city. Pegasus Air also offers daily flights from Orly to Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen. Turkish Airlines offers two daily flights from Basel-Mulhouse, Lyon, Marseille and Nice to...

Accor will soon be offering two extended-stay hotels in Istanbul under the Mövenpick Living brand. At a time when the French group is gradually extending the 'extended stay' versions of its hotel brands - Novotel Living and Pullman Living, among others - the French hotelier will be adding two new addresses as part of one of the major projects currently under way...

The Hilton group has just passed the milestone of 100 hotels in Turkey, both in operation and planned. This comes more than 65 years after the opening of its first hotel outside the United States, the Istanbul Hilton, now renamed the Istanbul Bosphorus. The American group already has 25 hotels in Turkey's main metropolis...

There are some quirks in the selection of destinations in the Michelin Guides. While Paris, Brussels, London, Rome, New York, San Francisco, Bangkok and Tokyo are all included in these prestigious culinary guides, we wondered why some destinations known for their culinary delights had not yet made the list. It's true that...

JW Marriott is continuing to expand in the world's major cities. By 2025, the American group's premium brand has announced its intention to open a hotel in Tokyo, with 200 rooms and a MICE area of almost 1,000 m2. The hotel will be located in a new building complex, the result of the redevelopment of the former railway depot...

Launched at the end of 2020, the Radisson Individuals brand is continuing to grow thanks to the attraction of the support of a major hotel group for independent hotel owners. While its announced expansion in Russia, with around ten hotels in the pipeline, has been postponed to a later date, the brand recently opened its first hotel in Africa, in Accra, Ghana,...

In the early days of October, the Mövenpick brand set up shop close to Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, on the Asian side of Istanbul. Situated just one kilometre from the hub, the establishment is a popular stopping-off point for business travellers, and is also close to Technopark Istanbul, a high-tech campus focusing on the defence industry, as well as...