lifestyle

Mama Shelter is adding a thirteenth address with a new hotel in Luxembourg. A destination that might not seem to fit in with the lifestyle positioning of the brand founded by the Trigano family, and which contrasts with the other cities where Mama Shelter is established, such as Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, London, Prague and Paris. And yet......

The Tribe family of hotels is about to grow. After a first establishment unveiled in March 2019 in Perth, Australia, the Accor group's new lifestyle brand is taking off with several openings expected in the coming months, notably in France. First and foremost, Paris will be the first city in Europe to offer the concept, with the...

Already an essential part of the business traveller's toolkit, the smartphone is acquiring a new status in these times of health crisis. Just as catering services are turning to digital ordering, hotels are using mobile tools to protect their customers by limiting the number of interactions required. The trendy citizenM brand has...

Alongside its expansion in the American and Asian markets, CitizenM is continuing its Parisian offensive with the announcement of a new prestigious address at the end of 2020, confirmed on 5 March. In December, the Dutch brand will set up shop just a few metres from the Champs-Élysées, at 128 rue de la Boétie to be precise. Business travellers will be able to...

The business hotel of tomorrow? Frédéric Fontaine - It will no longer be just a functional hotel, but a place based on emotion and surprise. It will be a place for 'play', with a notion of appropriation and flexibility. For a long time, the hotel industry had a standardised brand approach that could be reproduced in large numbers. This has...

Colour, light, a clever cultural melting pot with works combining Indian mandalas, the Mexican 'calavera' and the Japanese cherry blossom: nhow Amsterdam RAI, which has just opened its doors, aims to be a meeting place where contemporary art, design, gastronomy and cultural expression echo the multicultural spirit...

The 3,000th hotel is a symbolic milestone, illustrating Accor's leadership position in Europe, where the group now has 340,000 rooms in 39 countries, representing half of its global portfolio. By way of comparison, Marriott International, the world's leading hotel group, has only...

List from memory, and above all without too many mistakes, all the brands belonging to Marriott International. Then list the brands that make up the Accor group. Finally, list the latest concepts launched by Hyatt, Hilton and IHG. Clearly, this is not an easy task, given that the hotel industry is currently experiencing a groundswell of activity: a...

A former vodka factory in a creative district of Warsaw, Boston's theatre district or the historic heart of Dublin: Moxy Hotels, Marriott's low-cost lifestyle brand, is imposing its relaxed style in environments as diverse as they are varied. But the one thing they all have in common is their...

Is it a hotel, a trendy bar, a quirky meeting place or an urban garden where you can relax over a coffee? Or is it simply a new place in Paris that aims to reinvent "urban living"? Opened at the end of November in the 10th arrondissement, rue de Nancy, the Grand Quartier...

How do Ruby Hotels differ from other lifestyle hotels? Michael Struck - Our concept is lean luxury. We've taken the idea of a luxury hotel and made it leaner. After all, what is essential for our customers? First and foremost a central location, but also rooms with a soul,...

Rotterdam is home to a new hotel, The Slaak, located in the dynamic Kralingen-West district, just a few minutes from the city centre and the old port. The only hotel to open its doors in the Dutch city this year, this hotel - part of the Marriott group's Tribute Portfolio lifestyle brand - is part of a new concept of...

Marriott became the world's leading hotel group after its merger with Starwood. This acquisition led to the creation of a mega loyalty programme, Bonvoy, which builds loyalty around experiences. How is this development in line with the times? Belinda Pote - Since the merger with Starwood, our portfolio now encompasses 30 hotel brands...

Standard, Hoxton, Mama Shelter: these brands, which are among the most representative of the lifestyle spirit that is currently driving the hotel industry, have made a point of coming to London over the summer. For The Standard, André Balazs' jet-setting luxury brand, this is its first appearance outside the United States. In keeping with its design concept and...

CitizenM continues to expand its catalogue: following the inauguration of a new address in Amsterdam, the Dutch group has just announced new ambitions in London. Already present with establishments in Bankside, Shoreditch and Tower of London, CitizenM will be setting its sights on Victoria in 2021. A 226-room hotel is expected...

The Hoxton and Mama Shelter: these two brands, representative of the lifestyle spirit driving the hotel industry, will each be opening an establishment in London over the summer. For Hoxton, this will be its third hotel in the city where this trendy concept from the Ennismore group first appeared. Following on from Shoreditch in 2006 and Holborn in 2012,...

In Paris, in the heart of the Gare de l'Est, along platform 1, Okko Hotels is inaugurating its ninth 4* establishment. Representing an investment of 30 million euros, the contemporary two-storey building was erected on 220 spring boxes designed to absorb the vibrations of trains and the underground metro...

How far will Accor go in developing its portfolio? Already well stocked with the acquisition of 14 new brands in 2018 alone, it has now added a new in-house brand: Tribe. The concept unveiled on 4 March by the French hotel group is already taking shape in Australia, with a 126-room establishment inaugurated...

The prospect of turning one of the world's biggest hubs into an airport hotel could not have left the Yotel brand, which specialises in Japanese-style capsule hotels, indifferent. And the idea of offering passengers a place to put down their bags for a night or a few hours could not leave the operator indifferent...

Report and photos by Florian Guillemin. HÔTELS Le Gray [tararama ids="72819,72817,72815,71483" auto="true" pause="4000"] The Gray has succeeded in establishing itself as the reference address in the town centre in less than a decade. Admittedly, the hotel enjoys an ideal location, just a stone's throw from the Place des Martyrs. But that's not the whole story... It was just a question of finding the subtle...