long stays

Projects integrating two hotel brands are all the rage at the moment. A few days after Radisson announced the simultaneous opening of a Radisson Red and Radisson at Oslo airport, another hub, and not the least for French business travellers, that of Paris CDG, is seeing the arrival of a complex from the Marriott International group....

With the unveiling of IHG's first Atwell Suites aparthotel in Miami, the launch of new long-stay brands at Wyndham and Choice Hotels, and the accelerated development of Hyatt House hotels from Houston to Kansas City, not to mention Orlando and Sacramento airports, the long-stay hotel sector in the United States is growing from strength to strength. [link-block prefix="Read more...

The project had already been in the pipeline for a year, but now it's here: Adagio has unveiled its Coliving flat concept at the Adagio Paris Bercy establishment. The long-stay brand is interpreting this new social trend not as a communal accommodation solution for guests from different backgrounds, but as a solution designed for groups...

The Ascott group has just opened its first Citadines in Vienna. This opening illustrates a strategy that is now focused on franchising, since this residence is owned by c-view, a management company specialising in hotel real estate. "Ascott's development in Austria with a franchise partner is an important step in the expansion of our European network...

The Adagio long-stay brand has teamed up with Monoprix to enhance the offer to its residents by bringing a selection of the brand's iconic products to 80 aparthotels in France. A partnership that plays on the urban dimension of these two brands. "At Adagio, we are located in city centres, just like Monoprix, and we share the same...

Updated on 8 March 2022. How has business at your sites evolved in recent months? Xavier Desaulles - It's still very volatile, with a rollercoaster ride over the last 18 months, a number of sites closed at the start of last year, reduced activity before picking up again in the summer, and a last quarter that was virtually flat...

Are you surprised by the resilience of the long-stay hotel sector compared with the traditional hotel sector? Olivier Petit - This resilience comes as no surprise; we had even envisaged it at the start of the crisis. With the pandemic, people seem to be rediscovering the long-stay product, but its strengths were already there beforehand and will continue to be...

Is it its resilience compared to the traditional hotel industry, recently highlighted by the pandemic? Or is it the way it responds to new customer expectations? Or is it the strength of its product, aimed as much at business travellers as at families and groups of friends? It's probably a bit of all of the above...

"Don't stay confined to your flats": a new generation of urban residences is sending travellers a very different message from their predecessors. Riding the lifestyle wave, the Locke, Zoku and other brands are aiming to appeal to travellers who are young in mind or body, with their lively bars and restaurants,...

If proof were needed of the vitality of the long-stay accommodation sector, the development prospects of the Ascott group would give a fairly good idea of its growth dynamic. With 40 residences due to open in 2021, including one in Strasbourg in France, and 72 new projects to be signed at the same time, the Ascott Group is well on the way to achieving its target of...

Is there really any reason to be satisfied with the worst crisis in the history of world tourism? Certainly not, and no representative of the long-stay accommodation industry would presume to do so. However, it is always possible to catch a glimpse of light in the midst of darkness, to make the best of a bad situation....

What lessons have you drawn from the crisis for long-stay accommodation? Ngor Houai Lee - During this difficult period for tourism, it's interesting to see that hotel residences have proved much more resilient than traditional hotels. For example, three quarters of our European establishments have remained open, which is...

To make its entry into Madagascar, the Radisson group has not done things by halves with a triple inauguration in the capital Antananarivo. "We are delighted to open our first three hotels, showcasing two of our fastest growing brands and a diverse offering ranging from hotels to flats with...

From autumn onwards, business travellers passing through Paris for a while will be able to discover the innovative concept of long-stay brand Zoku. Launched in 2016 in Amsterdam and this year in Copenhagen and Vienna, this brand of Dutch origin stands out for its loft-style studios with designer, modular furniture where the...

IHG is heading south. This was already true in France, with the British group's latest developments taking place on the shores of the Mediterranean. It's just as true at continental level with the announcement of 10 forthcoming openings on the Iberian peninsula, some as early as this year, others by 2025. [link-block prefix="Read more...

The MOB concept has now found its long-stay incarnation with the inauguration of MOB House, right next door to the first MOB Hotel launched in 2017 by entrepreneur, philosopher and designer Cyril Aouizerate. Always in the heart of the Puces de Saint-Ouen, always in a lifestyle spirit and always with the support of Philippe Starck for the design...

40 new residences to be opened by 2021 by the world leader in extended-stay hotels, Ascott Limited, and 10 new addresses by Adagio Aparthotels, the leading player in this segment in Europe: the extended-stay specialists continued to show strong growth momentum last year. And this despite a period that was not very conducive to...

The Accor group is strengthening its offering in Kazakhstan with the unveiling of an ibis hotel in Almaty, ahead of the opening in the first quarter of 2022 of a Novotel Living within the same complex. This dual-brand project revisits one of the country's oldest hotels, the Jetisu, which has been extensively rebuilt and redesigned to accommodate both a...

The best of the hotel, the aparthotel and the coliving flat, nothing more, nothing less. That's how Ascott describes the lyf brand, which will be making its Paris debut in 2024 in a lively, dynamic district that reflects its image: the 20th arrondissement. The future lyf Gambetta Paris residence, located five minutes...

With their "home-from-home" accommodation and flats with fully-equipped kitchens, urban residences are ideally suited to changing working patterns. Not just to the trend towards longer stays, but also to the needs of teleworkers who have moved away from the big cities and need to return...