lifestyle

"We will RockyPop you": the promise emblazoned on the 96 keys of RockyPop Marseille sums up the establishment's philosophy pretty well. Like the brand's three other addresses - in Chamonix, Flaine and Grenoble - the new star in Marseille plays the card of musical culture, the 7th art and...

The beginnings of a beginning. The Hilton Group is expanding its lifestyle offering with a new brand collection called Outset. Literally 'the beginning'. But Outset is only the latest addition to the group's offensive in the contemporary hotel sector and its 'light' brands, the 'soft brands' designed to attract new customers to its fold.

Ready just in time for the Women's World Cup Final. On 27 September, the "temple of rugby" - London's Twickenham Stadium, now named the Allianz Stadium - will see the two best teams enter this legendary venue. While the match could break a record...

Goal achieved. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Moxy brand, launched in 2014 at Milan Malpensa airport, Marriott announced its intention to reach the milestone of 100 establishments in the EMEA region by the end of 2025. This has now been achieved with the opening of a hotel in Belfast. "This is a major step forward for Neal Jones,...

"We never imagined that the brand would travel so far". When he opened the first Mama Shelter in Paris in 2008, Serge Trigano, the co-founder of the brand, probably never imagined that his lifestyle and offbeat brand would expand to such an extent. Twenty or so hotels later - as well as becoming part of the...

Lifestyle hotels: a buoyant segment in the eyes of travellers... but also investors? Accor could one day prove the point by listing its nugget Ennismore, the parent company of brands such as Mama Shelter, The Hoxton, 25Hours and Mondrian, as well as the hotel chain..., on the New York stock exchange.

Is it the new voco Malta hotel in the seaside resort of St. Julian's, or the luxurious Kimpton Mas Olas resort in Mexico, recently opened just outside Los Cabos? Or how about the Holiday Inn Kyoto Gojo, marking the return of one of IHG's flagship brands to this historic city? The 183-room Holiday Inn Kyoto Gojo...

The Minor Hotels group is approaching the milestone of 60 destinations with its arrival in Peru, confirming the group's ambitions in the Americas. The inauguration of nhow Lima was celebrated on 1 August at Miraflores, one of the economic - and tourist - centres of the Peruvian capital. Half an hour's drive away...

On 4 August, the Minor Group celebrated the launch of its new project: destination Singapore for the Avani lifestyle chain launched in 2011. However, we will have to wait until 2027 to see this establishment open its doors in the historic district of Tanjong Pagar, at 24 Peck Seah Street to be exact. Just 200 metres from...

A landing at Budapest airport, a new hotel in Pantin near Paris, a first establishment in Krakow, Poland: in recent months, the Tribe brand has been spreading its contemporary spirit in several major European destinations. Design, a "top-of-the-range style at a fair price", entertainment concentrated in...

Business is still buoyant, with results boosted by the lifestyle and luxury segment, but revenues have been penalised by sharp fluctuations in the US and Australian dollars and the Brazilian real in particular: the Accor group's first-half performance is showing good momentum "despite a complex geopolitical context and the impact...

Even before making its Asian debut in Singapore next September, Mama Shelter is looking to the Orient with a second address in mind. By 2029, the lifestyle brand will be bringing its fun, offbeat spirit to Bangkok. For what will be one of the biggest, if not the biggest hotel in the...

Almost the hundredth. The Motel One Paris-Porte de Versailles, which has just opened its doors, could have symbolised the passage of a milestone for the German hotelier. Instead, it was in Munich, in the city where it all began 25 years ago, that the group passed this milestone a few weeks ago with the opening of its...

A lifestyle renaissance. For its debut in Switzerland this summer, Mama Shelter is picking up the thread of the history of one of Zürich's flagship establishments, the former Swissôtel. Originally known as Hôtel International in 1972, it took on the name of this essentially Swiss brand in 1980, when its owner at the time, Swissair, changed its name to Swissôtel.

Urban residence or lifestyle hotel? The heart of Jardin de Verre balances between the two. Opened last February in the 5th arrondissement, near Place Monge and the Jardin des Plantes, this first establishment in France of the Locke long-stay brand has all the makings of an apartment hotel, with its 145 flats, each...

Bill Murray will soon be able to take his jet-lagged actor spleen for a spin once again. The flagship host of the film Lost in Translation, the Park Hyatt Tokyo is back in business at the end of the year, celebrating its 30th anniversary by offering travellers a redesigned setting after more than a year's work. With new restaurant concepts, but with the same elegance as before...

The Hoxton hotel has just opened in Edinburgh. Located in the West End, the hotel comprises a collection of 11 Georgian-style houses on either side of Grosvenor Street. Their originality is reflected in a proposal for several self-contained three-bedroom houses, each with its own...

It's probably not the arrival of Trenitalia's first TGV trains at Saint-Charles station, from 15 June, that can explain the wave of hotel openings in Marseille today. Rather, it's the attractiveness of a major metropolis that is constantly advancing its position on the tourist map. By the end of May, Villa M had set up shop...

The Accor group will soon be adding a new brand in Egypt. The lifestyle brand 25Hours, part of the lifestyle hotel joint venture Ennismore, will make its debut in Cairo in a few years' time, within a new business complex in the immediate vicinity of the Mall of Egypt. Developed by Dubai-based specialist Majid Al Futtaim, the...

A new hybrid hotel, suitable for both short and long stays, in tune with the times and the neighbourhood: the opening of the lyf Gambetta Paris marks the arrival of a new brand from the Ascott group in the French capital, following on from Citadines and the three luxury La Clef establishments in the Crest Collection. This Asian brand, which has...