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London City Airport, a favourite with many business travellers because of its proximity to the City, is getting back on track with the return of its "core target". On 21 March, the London hub published some encouraging results on the road to pre-Covid normality. One of the key indicators was...

Some twenty hotels today, rising to fifty by 2025: as part of its global expansion, Yotel will be adding Geneva to its list of addresses from the fourth quarter of 2022. This innovative concept, originally known for its capsule-style hotels in airports, has since expanded into the heart of major cities, in Amsterdam, London, New York and London.

March 18 is a special day for travellers to London and other major UK cities. On this date, all international travellers, whether vaccinated or not, will be able to enter the UK without any formalities. They will no longer have to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test or...

A number of handovers between hoteliers have been announced in London, with a luxurious St Regis expected in 2023 within the walls of the Westbury Hotel, while a Hyatt Regency will replace the Crowne Plaza London The City from next July. The latter, having embarked on the first phase of a vast redevelopment programme,...

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....

Transport for London, the authority in charge of public transport in the British capital, is facing a veritable outcry. The agency has just announced that it would like to increase fares on journeys to the various terminals at Heathrow airport. A proposal for a 'Premium Fare' on the Piccadilly route could well result in an increase of up to...

Luxury, tropical vegetation galore, art and design, exclusive event spaces: Rosewood, owner of the Crillon in Paris, is marking its arrival in São Paulo in style. The luxury brand has set up shop in the heart of Brazil's main business metropolis, close to Avenida Paulista. And yet...

The reopening of the United States to European travellers in 2022 should generate a strong flow of traffic between the two continents. This is the gamble being taken by most of the airlines serving this strategic route. This is particularly true of British Airways. The British carrier operates its transatlantic routes as part of a joint venture,...

"I promise you luxury and charm": If Winston Churchill were still with us, he might paraphrase his famous speech at the dawn of the Second World War to evoke the future Raffles under preparation in London. A luxury hotel intimately linked to great history, as it will take its place within the walls of…

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...

Of course, the launch of the World Expo in Dubai on October 1 is no small part of the good results achieved by the emirate's hotel industry. According to STR, hotels recorded an average occupancy of 81.6 % over the past month. Not seen since January 2020! However, the emirate did not wait for the...

London-Gatwick, the British capital's second airport with over 46 million passengers in 2019, has always been associated with the national carrier British Airways. Even though since the 2000s the British carrier has gradually lost ground to its low-cost rival easyJet, it has remained a structuring element of the hub...

Close to Windsor Castle and its Grand Park, manicured lawns and a residence dating back to the last century: it's an eminently British and infinitely elegant setting that the Fairmont brand, which also manages the prestigious Savoy in London, is preparing to offer its customers, be they tourists or business groups. Currently in...

The French government has adopted tighter control measures for Covid in response to an increase in the number of cases of contamination in the United Kingdom. The country is now classified as a risk orange, meaning that there is active circulation of the virus there, albeit in controlled proportions. Hence the new measures for travellers...

While Deutsche Bahn was expected to take over the Paris-London/London-Brussels routes a few years ago, it is now Renfe that is embarking on the cross-Channel rail adventure, which weighed in at some 9 million passengers before Covid. The Spanish carrier confirmed its ambitions yesterday, with the aim of competing with Eurostar on the Paris-London route....

Following the opening of a luxurious Pan Pacific at the beginning of September, in a new skyscraper overlooking the reinvented Bishopsgate Square, the City of London has just welcomed a Canopy by Hilton hotel, marking the brand's debut in the UK. Once again, this is a contemporary urban project, called Minories, which includes the conversion of an office building...

Business travellers to London now have a new option to simplify their journey. The British media are reporting a new partnership between Heathrow Express and Google Maps. The American giant's mapping service is now able to provide real-time information on rail services to the hub...

You've just opened your fourth CitizenM in Paris, this one overlooking part of the Champs-Elysées. How did this project come about? Robin Chadha - It was quite a challenging project to develop, as it involved transforming an old office block into two buildings. At the start, we weren't quite sure how we were going to go about...

British Airways has considerably reduced its presence at London's second airport, Gatwick, in recent years. The airline now operates only a few long-haul flights, mainly to leisure destinations. But it nevertheless wants to return to the South London hub as restrictions are gradually lifted, and to define a strategy for...

Radisson RED has moved closer to the heart of London. After opening its first hotel at Heathrow last year - and before landing at Gatwick later this year - the Radisson Group's lifestyle brand has moved into the trendy Greenwich district in the south-east of the English capital. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="98883"]...