lifestyle

Lifestyle, luxury and design: a look at the new hotels opening this year in Italy and on the Iberian peninsula. Spain: In Madrid, the Atocha Hotel will join the Tapestry Collection by Hilton in March, following the renovation of its rooms. In May, the Spanish capital will see the opening of EDITION, a brand...

After Paris and the area around Montparnasse station last September, the IHG group's new upmarket and contemporary brand, voco, is continuing its expansion in France with a second hotel opening in Strasbourg. Close to the cathedral and Petite France, the hotel is also within easy reach of the main tourist attractions...

Faced with the boom in video-conferencing solutions and the constraints on event organisation, the hotel industry is stepping up the introduction of hybrid meeting solutions. Melia Hotels turns its attention to hybrid events The Spanish group Melia Hotels has announced the launch of its 'Melia Hybrid Solutions', a range of technological solutions for hybrid meetings...

London's hotel scene is as busy as ever. Over and above the procrastination surrounding Brexit and the heavy atmosphere linked to the pandemic, new hotels are constantly opening or being announced. Among the developments unveiled in recent weeks are a Mondrian hotel, due to open in Shoreditch in 2021, and a luxurious Park...

The Andaz brand is ready to make its appearance in Lisbon and Prague, and Park Hyatt and Hyatt Regency are expected in London: the American group has already unveiled several of these future openings. More generally, it has just outlined its expansion plan in Europe, with around twenty establishments to be added by 2023 to the 63...

Just 150 years after the Olympia London was built in 1873, the convention centre will soon be welcoming a new roommate: the citizenM London Olympia hotel, the lifestyle brand's fifth representative in the British capital. The brand, which was launched in Amsterdam in 2008, has just made official this major new project in the business travel segment, with the...

After Marne-la-Vallée next year, Eklo will continue its expansion in the Paris region with a business-oriented hotel expected in 2022 near Paris CDG airport and Villepinte. This budget brand, launched in 2014 by Emmanuel Petit - and backed by the two founders of the Accor group, Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson -,...

Lifestyle über alles. Accor had already made contemporary and design hotels its main focus. The French group has made no secret of its ambitions for growth in this buoyant segment for travellers. This strategy took the form of investments in innovative brands such as Mama Shelter, 25hours and 21c Museum Hotels, as well as a stake in the...

The lifestyle hotel is part of the cultural and economic dynamism of Newcastle. In 2023, the city in the north of England will see the opening of a Radisson Red right next to St James Park, one of the oldest and largest football stadiums in the UK. Design, a sky bar, a rooftop, a trendy restaurant:...

The list of business destinations covered by the Moxy network is expanding to include new strategic hubs. The Marriott Group brand recently opened its first property in Taiwan, in the island's second largest city. The Moxy Taichung hotel and its 262 rooms are just a quarter of an hour from the railway station, and 24 minutes from...

Donald Trump or Joe Biden can always console themselves with defeat by having a cocktail in the rooftop bar with a breathtaking view of the Capitol at CitizenM in Washington. Opened in mid-October, the new establishment, like all the hotels in the inventive Dutch chain, cultivates a design and arty feel, with...

Announced at the beginning of the summer, the arrival in Paris of Accor's new lifestyle brand, Tribe, has now materialised with the opening of Tribe Paris Batignolles. Its location, in a fast-developing district of the French capital, reflects the contemporary concept of the mid-range brand launched last year in Australia. Innovative design, communal areas...

Upmarket and sophisticated, the Kimpton brand is continuing to expand within the IHG group. Bought by the British hotelier in 2015 to strengthen its lifestyle offering, the trendy brand born in the United States has 34 projects in its pipeline, which will be added in the next three to five years to the 72 establishments already open across the...

In-room offices, coworking spaces: hoteliers are capitalising on the boom in teleworking to offer new solutions to businesses. In this context, the CitizenM chain is banking on a combined fixed-price offer, aimed at companies with frequent travellers, teams spread around the world or looking for an alternative to working from home.

The charm of boutique hotels, the energy of the city, a sustainable dimension with, for example, mattresses and bed linen made from 100% recycled materials: the voco brand is living with the times. Launched by the IHG group in 2018, this upmarket brand is now taking off with its first hotel in France, in Paris....

After Zürich last year, CitizenM has now arrived in Switzerland's other major financial centre, Geneva. This new hotel is the second to be opened by the Dutch brand in 2020, after the one in Seattle South Lake Union and before the one in Washington DC, expected by the end of the year, and another planned near the Champs-Elysées in Paris....

Open since 1 September, the Athens Capital Hotel marks the arrival in Greece of the Accor MGallery brand. This collection, which includes around a hundred boutique hotels with strong personalities around the world, such as the Molitor in Paris or the Santa Teresa in Rio, is being established in the heart of Athens, on Syntagma Square, thanks to the...

The lifestyle brand Ruby Hotels is continuing to expand, with two new hotels expected by 2023. Already boasting eight hotels based on the "lean luxury" concept of relaxed, affordable luxury, the German group intends to unveil seventeen new properties in Europe by this date. While the German group founded by Michael Struck already has a presence...

Old-world elegance and ultra-contemporary sophistication: opened in Warsaw in August, the Nobu Hotel Warsaw brings together two experiences in one place. With a classic spirit, one of its wings is housed in an Art Deco building dating from the 1920s, the former Rialto Hotel, while the other, newly built, seduces with its very contemporary lines....

The fruits of the partnership between Accor and the American group sbe, in which the French hotel operator has a 50 % stake (%), are beginning to materialise. After announcing in January the arrival of the Mondrian brand in Europe, in Bordeaux and Cannes, this lifestyle brand has just opened its first hotel in Asia-Pacific, in Seoul. Located in...