lifestyle

With Times Square as its backdrop and a skyscraper dedicated entirely to entertainment as its showcase, the Tempo by Hilton brand could not have found a more appropriate setting for its lifestyle concept to make its world debut next year. "Rental, rental, rental": the motto of the group's founder, Conrad Hilton, is being applied again and again...

In its European growth strategy, which recently included Rome and Barcelona and will soon include Brussels and Berlin, The Hoxton is not forgetting its home city of London. The lifestyle brand, associated with the Accor group in the Ennismore joint venture, will be opening a fourth address in the British capital from the beginning of December...

This is undoubtedly one of the most important openings in Europe this year. The Sommerro opened its doors on 1 September in Oslo and has immediately established itself as a benchmark for lifestyle and top-of-the-range hotels. This new property from the Nordic Hotels group revisits the former head office of Oslo Lysverker, the capital's main electricity company...

After La Défense in May, the Tribe brand made its debut in mid-summer in another of Europe's major business districts, Canary Wharf in London. Part of Ennismore, Accor's lifestyle division, this trendy brand is helping to diversify the hotel offer in the area.

Business travellers with a penchant for lifestyle addresses now have access to a new accommodation option for their business trips to Toronto. The W Toronto hotel has just opened its doors in Canada's largest city, and should soon be making a name for itself in the address books of local guests. "Our discreet interpretation and...

MICE activity, new organisation and, of course, CSR, lifestyle and bleisure: the tenth edition of the Global Meeting Exchange (GME) gave Accor management the opportunity to take stock of the major current trends. The French group's key meeting with buyers and event organisers took place from 19 to 21 September...

The milestone of 40 hotels is approaching week by week for citizenM. And this July will see the lifestyle brand launched in 2008 take another step towards this goal, with a total of 27 establishments in 17 cities around the world, including Paris. The opening of a new address in London was made official on 11 July...

The new Radisson Red address has just been inaugurated in the Norwegian capital, in an emerging district dedicated to sustainable development. A business destination in which the lifestyle chain has clearly found favourable ground. Another establishment was inaugurated a few weeks earlier next door to the...

Their leaning, unstructured, almost ramshackle forms stand out from the centre of Paris all the way to the ring road on the edge of which they have risen. The Duo towers, designed by Jean Nouvel and boasting the most demanding environmental labels, offer the 13th arrondissement a new architectural signature in dialogue with the neighbouring BNF. "Like two balancing dancers"...

As the Jo&Joe brand, this new generation of youth hostels created by Accor, enters its fifth year of existence, how have business customers adopted its world, which combines dormitories, as usual, with en-suite rooms, in addition to lively bars and restaurants? "It's often this way,...

FirstName. To launch its hotel brand, the French group Alboran has chosen a simple name with international appeal. A name that evokes the first name - the primary piece of information on border crossing forms - as much as it augurs personalised hospitality. But there's no need to rush to discover this new top-of-the-range brand with a "feel...

A pioneer in the lifestyle movement that is taking a leading role in the global hotel industry, the W brand is stepping up its expansion in Europe. Following the opening of a hotel in Rome at the end of last year, housed in two nineteenth-century palaces near the Spanish Steps that have been given a contemporary makeover, Marriott International has announced the...

Lifestyle hotels seem to be finding an increasingly natural place in the La Défense business district. CitizenM was a forerunner, setting up in 2017 near the Grande Arche and La Défense Arena, and will soon be joined, in mid-June, by an Okko hotel. At the other end of the district, towards...

The Radisson Group, in turn, is part of the large-scale expansion of contemporary design hotels, with lively lobbies and trendy restaurants and bars. In short, everyone will recognise the contours of the lifestyle hotel industry. Already present in this buoyant niche with the fast-growing Radisson RED brand, the hotelier had announced the opening of...

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...

Accor and its lifestyle hotel subsidiary Ennismore have signed their joint entry into the Amsterdam-Noord district with the opening of a Mercure hotel and a Tribe, a new brand whose lifestyle spirit is in line with the evolution of the northern part of the Dutch capital. Long occupied by the NDSM shipyards, this district, separated from the city centre...

At the International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF), the Radisson Group discussed its ambitious development objectives in the Europe-Middle East-Africa region and the Asia-Pacific zone. Buoyed by a year 2021 described as "the most successful in the company's history in terms of new hotel signings", the hotelier intends to keep up the momentum....

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,...

Following its opening in Zurich in November 2021, Ruby Hotels has set up shop in Switzerland's other major business metropolis, Geneva. The German chain, which advocates lean luxury, is continuing its international expansion with an establishment on the left bank of the Rhône, in the heart of the...

Already present in Dubai, on the artificial island of Palm Jumeirah, the lifestyle brand W is moving closer to the emirate's Dowtown by setting up in the heart of Dubai Marina. Located on Jumeirah Beach, the 31-storey hotel is distinguished by its glass architecture, all of which is extended, in keeping with the spirit of...