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At the halfway point of the 2026 financial year, with the summer holidays fast approaching, the ranking of the main business destinations is becoming clearer. Navan has just released its league table for France and on an international scale, based on bookings made between January 2025 and April 2026. For 2025, the national podium was made up of Paris,...

easyJet will increase its offering at two French airports at the end of 2026. Starting with Lille, which will be linked to Prague from 28 October. Two flights a week will be operated by the airline, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The Strasbourg - London route will be inaugurated a month later, more precisely…

This is a strategic focus for both business travellers and holidaymakers: easyJet will once again strengthen its presence between France and Morocco. And as a sign that the corporate market is being targeted by the low-cost airline, the new flights will operate all year round. Marrakech is setting out to win back travellers and…

With a good twenty hotels added in the first quarter and another batch of openings in the second, the Accor group is continuing to strengthen its presence in its domestic market. Widely the leader in its field, the group added several establishments in the first half of the year, under its Handwritten Collection, Mercure and greet brands in particular. And their networks have...

A heritage investment in Lille. The Océania group has just converted the former head office of the Scalbert-Dupont bank, the region's most respected financial institution, into a top-of-the-range hotel until it was nationalised in 1981 and then became part of the CIC group. Its vault is still there in the basement, converted into a swimming pool...

The Oceania group has just made a grand entrance into Lille with the conversion of the former headquarters of the Scalbert-Dupont bank into a hotel. Is this a major moment for your group? Rozenn Branellec Dumon - We're delighted to have planted a flag in Lille through the metamorphosis of these former offices...

After Vienna and soon Paris, the lyf brand, part of the Ascott group, will be adding Frankfurt to its list of European destinations. Located in the lively Ostend district, home to numerous theatres and cultural venues as well as the new headquarters of the European Central Bank, lyf Frankfurt will embody this new generation of aparthotels tailored to the expectations of a clientele...

Meeting in Paris, the Hilton Group's management team for Continental Europe is delighted to announce its debut in Monte Carlo, a destination that the American hotelier has long had its eye on. By the end of 2023, the Columbus hotel is set to become part of the Curio Collection brand, which now comprises almost 150 boutique hotels worldwide. Offering...

Twin Jet, the French airline specialising in regional transport, is expanding its network and from 17 April will be offering flights between Lyon and Lille airports. The airline will be offering 9 weekly flights with two frequencies per day from Monday to Thursday and a single frequency on Fridays. This route, mainly...

The Cloche d'Or in Luxembourg, a major urban development project that is already home to major companies such as PWC, Intesa San Paolo, Deloitte and IWG, the world leader in shared workplaces, will continue its development with a B&B Hotels hotel. Expected to open in the first half of 2025, the hotel will complete the contemporary development of this...

It's an airport that doesn't get a lot of buzz, but up until 2020 it was showing very respectable growth rates. Lille airport, to the south of the northern metropolis, welcomed almost 2.2 million passengers in 2019, putting it in 11th place in France, behind Beauvais airport and ahead of Montpellier. [link-block...

Banque Scalbert-Dupont was one of Northern France's historic financial institutions before it was nationalised and then incorporated into the CIC network in the 1980s. Its former head office, which is part of Lille's heritage and was built in the late 1920s by local architect Jean Delrue, is about to change function. The...

Aging offices, obsolete hotels: Edgar Suites is putting its own spin on a very topical trend: recycling. Founded in 2016 by three partners - Xavier O'Quin and Maxime and Grégoire Benoit - the group specialises in converting outdated buildings into long-term accommodation solutions.

What is Lille Grand Palais' strategy in launching this new hybrid offering? Hervé Vauvillier - We could have positioned ourselves on a new purely digital offering, but we opted for the hybrid approach. This can be explained by the DNA of Lille Grand Palais: a convention centre is there...

Okko Hotels is adding a new address in France, its eleventh, with the opening of the Okko Lille at the beginning of May. To make its debut in the capital of northern France, the upmarket, business-focused brand has moved into a flagship development in the city, at 31, rue de Béthune. This complex is the result of the...

And that's two for Startway in Marseille. Within a few weeks of each other, this coworking specialist will have opened two spaces in the city. As is often the case with Startway, whose partner is the La Poste group, one of these developments involves the conversion of dedicated premises into new-generation workspaces. In...

At a time when teleworking is fuelling the growth of third-party premises, Newton Offices has just unveiled its ambitions for business customers in the north of France. The starting point for this roadmap is Villeneuve d'Ascq, where a site of some 4,900 m² - christened Newton Haute Borne - is to...

If you've got an hour... Climb to the top of the belfry, wander through the streets of Vieux-Lille - which have been undergoing a facelift since 2017 - stop off for a while on the Grand'Place, and then make your way to the citadel or the Palais des Beaux-Arts: this is the route that awaits any professional visiting the capital of...

What does Euralille represent for the metropolis, and what is the role of the sites of excellence? François Navarro - Euralille is one of our major assets in terms of attractiveness. It's a growing district, with plenty of room for manoeuvre: there are a number of structuring projects in the pipeline,...

Report and photos by Florian Guillemin. Something is afoot in the Hauts-de-France region. Lille has been named World Design Capital 2020, following in the footsteps of destinations such as Seoul and Mexico City, and can no longer hide from its status. Even if, as Covid is obliged to do, the city had to wait until early September to launch the festivities. More than a city,...