lifestyle

The veil is beginning to be lifted on the future lifestyle hotel So/Paris, part of the Morland Mixité Capitale project. Developed by Emerige, one of the major players in the Paris of tomorrow, the complex aims to renovate the Cité administrative on Boulevard Morland. Designed in the early 1960s by...

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....

With its lively restaurants and bars and its art of designing contemporary venues, the upmarket lifestyle hotel sector has a natural place in Madrid, a city renowned for its urban and nightlife scene. With Hyatt having just announced the arrival of its Thompson brand in the middle of the year, the Spanish capital is also...

At one time there were 'designer' hotels such as Armani and Bulgari. More recently, other big names have branched out into hotels, including Fauchon, Maisons du Monde and mk2 in France, and Muji in Asia, with hotels in Beijing, Shenzhen and Tokyo. The sportswear brand Fila will soon be added to this list...

The Hyatt group is preparing to launch a new brand in Europe with the expected mid-year opening of the Thompson Madrid. This luxury and lifestyle brand, acquired by the American hotelier as part of the Two Roads Hospitality takeover in 2018, boasts just over twenty hotels in the United States and Mexico, and is beginning its expansion in...

"Don't stay confined to your flats": a new generation of urban residences is sending travellers a very different message from their predecessors. Riding the lifestyle wave, the Locke, Zoku and other brands are aiming to appeal to travellers who are young in mind or body, with their lively bars and restaurants,...

While Mama Shelter is due to open in March, another contemporary hotel brand, Okko Hotels, is preparing to open in the La Défense business district on 1 June. This fourth address in the Paris region - after Rueil-Malmaison and Porte de Versailles, and Gare de l'Est in Paris itself - will be...

Mama Shelter has already demonstrated its expertise by opening a hotel next to the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in 2019. For its third establishment in Paris, the brand launched by the Trigano family, and since integrated into the Accor-Ennismore JV, is continuing to...

Pink Floyd fans will certainly be delighted with the forthcoming opening of the art'otel London. From summer onwards, they will be able to stretch out by the pool - on the rooftop, as it should be - and dream of seeing a pink pig floating in the air above Battersea Power Station....

In France, as in Paris, 2021 was already a productive year for the hotel industry. If not very active in the capital, due to the prolonged absence of international tourists. Notable openings in Paris include two potential new palaces - Cheval Blanc and Bulgari - and the private hotel-club Soho House,...

The pandemic may have delayed certain projects, but far from it, it has not put the brakes on hotel development. Business travellers will be able to experience this for themselves when they travel around Europe, finding new hotels here and there in business destinations, particularly among the historic brands of the major groups....

The MOB concept has now found its long-stay incarnation with the inauguration of MOB House, right next door to the first MOB Hotel launched in 2017 by entrepreneur, philosopher and designer Cyril Aouizerate. Always in the heart of the Puces de Saint-Ouen, always in a lifestyle spirit and always with the support of Philippe Starck for the design...

Continuing its expansion in Europe and around the world, 25hours will be opening a new hotel in Copenhagen in mid-March. This brings to 14 the number of establishments for this lifestyle chain, which was launched in Germany in 2005 and has been an Accor partner since 2016, with the French group owning 50% of its capital and having integrated 25hours into...

Lifestyle, luxury and a host of new destinations: 2022 is shaping up to be another productive year for the Accor group, despite business still being affected by the consequences of the pandemic. "With more than 300 hotels and resorts ready to open this year, our many loyal customers around the world are...

Ultra-urban locations, lively communal spaces, a design bias and innovative accommodation solutions: with its new Motto by Hilton brand, the eponymous American group is delivering its way of thinking about lifestyle at a light price. Introduced in 2018, the brand made its grand debut in Washington in the summer of 2020, then in...

The coming months will see the arrival in South-East Asia of the affordable lifestyle brand Tribe from Accor, as well as the luxurious Vignette Collection from IHG. As part of the global roll-out of these new brands, the Tribe brand will open in Cambodia next February with the opening of the Tribe...

"The 25hours Hotel One Central is the most exotic of our projects to date": that's how Christoph Hoffman, founder of the 25hours brand, sums up the positioning of the new address that has just opened in Dubai. It has to be said that the 434-room and suite establishment has indeed opted for a...

The Curio Collection by Hilton brand has just restored the prestige of an emblematic Cologne hotel, housed in the immense water tower rising almost 30 metres into the heart of the Rhine city. The building dates back to the 1870s, but was damaged during the Second World War and had long been...

The upmarket lifestyle brand W Hotels has made its debut in Rome next to the Spanish Steps. For this Roman escape, the hotel has incorporated the walls of two nineteenth-century palaces on the Via Liguria, converted into a hotel under the direction of the Meyer Davis studio. The complex blends traditional architecture with...

The citizenM brand has just given more details of its plan to open new hotels in 2022. The six hotels that will be added next year to its portfolio of 24 hotels in 16 major cities around the world had all already been announced, but now it was time to find out more about what they will offer. While the pioneering lifestyle hotel chain in...