luxury hotels

Singapore has two new addresses for business travellers who love chic, designer hotels. The Mondrian brand, which is part of Ennismore, Accor's lifestyle hotel subsidiary, has just set up in the heights of Chinatown, in the Duxton Hill district. Close to the Central Business District, Duxton Hill, once an underworld area, has become the place to...

The Drechsler palace, with its façade hesitating between neo-Gothic and French Renaissance styles, is ideally located on Budapest's Champs-Elysées, avenue Andrassy, and imposes its bourgeois allure in the heart of the Hungarian capital. A place of prestige, but one that was abandoned for a long time before the W Hotels brand brought it back into...

Rome's luxury hotel scene continues to expand. After the long-awaited opening of a Bulgari hotel at the beginning of June, a few months after that of a Six Senses, the Italian capital recently welcomed the Edition brand. Jointly developed by Marriott and Ian Schrager, the pioneer of the boutique hotel industry, this luxury lifestyle brand has set up shop just a few blocks from the...

A graduate of McKinsey and the Carlyle investment fund, Javier Aguila entered the world of tourism fully by becoming COO of Spanish tour operator Orizonia in 2012. This operational experience led him to found his own chain, Alua Hotels & Resorts, in 2014. This leisure chain is gradually being taken over by the leading all-inclusive operator in Spain.

Until now, since 2015, La Liste has been a recognised ranking of the 1,000 best restaurants in the world, long dominated by Guy Savoy's restaurant in Paris and recently overtaken by Frantzen in Stockholm. This initiative, launched by the French government in response to the launch of the 50 Best Restaurants - and led by Philippe Faure, a former...

Fairmont Hotels is extending its castle life in the British Isles. Alongside the Savoy in London, one of its main flagships along with the Plaza in New York and the Peace Hotel in Shanghai, the luxury brand could already boast some fine resorts nestling in vast estates with manicured lawns, such as the Fairmont...

By 2027, the luxury brand Mandarin Oriental will be part of one of the most ambitious urban development programmes in Europe, The Ellinikon project, near Athens. Situated to the south of the Greek capital, this new eco-responsible district is currently being developed around the former international airport, which closed in 2001, to make it...

For some time now, Chicago, known for its close links with architectural history, has been adding a new jewel to its skyline: a 365 m tower made up of three columns of increasing size, raising their long, slender forms and crystalline façades into the Windy City sky. However, this new complex...

Its legendary façade, the view of the Mediterranean from its most beautiful suites, its private beach... And even its roof when all the cats are grey at night: the Carlton de Cannes served as a prestigious backdrop for the adventures of John Robie "The Cat" and Frances Stevens, alias Cary Grant and Grace...

After Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon and Marseille, InterContinental will soon have a new flagship hotel in France, in Chantilly. IHG has been entrusted with the management of the Château Mont Royal, recently acquired by the BMF and PFH groups. The hotel will be undergoing a phase of renovation before joining the InterContinental brand next year.

The launch of new brands, strategic acquisitions, a strong focus on luxury and lifestyle: all these trends have been driving the in-depth transformation of hotel groups for more than a decade. But of all the Accors, Hiltons, IHGs, Marriotts and others, if anyone has enjoyed impressive growth since the early 2010s, it's...

Rome, which has no shortage of prestigious hotels, will soon have a new jewel in its crown with the opening of the Bulgari Roma on 9 June. It's a return to its roots for the jeweller, who was born in the Italian capital at the end of the nineteenth century and whose flagship boutique, opened in 1905, still resides in the...

Updated on 6 April at 10am The Athens hotel scene has been in the spotlight recently. While the Thai group Dusit has just opened its first hotel in Europe here - a 36-suite long-stay establishment - the Radisson group has just found a first address for its new flagship hotel in...

JW Marriott is gradually weaving its web in Europe with the opening of its tenth hotel, in Madrid. The luxury brand has been present in France for more than a decade, thanks to the takeover of what was once the Noga Hilton in Cannes - then a Sofitel, the Palais Stéphanie - and also has a prestigious address in London,...

Modified on 29 March at 10:30 am Marriott's number 1,000 in Asia-Pacific. The American group has just passed a major milestone in this region of the world, driven by key markets such as China, of course, but also Japan, Singapore and Australia. It is in Melbourne, Australia, that the number of...

Its acquisition last year by Kasada, Accor's preferred partner for its expansion in sub-Saharan Africa, was the first step in this direction. The Cape Grace, one of Cape Town's leading hotels, will become a fully-fledged Fairmont property by the end of the year. "We couldn't think of a more iconic hotel than...

Owned by Kempinski since it opened in 2005, the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi is now officially under the luxurious Mandarin Oriental banner. This handover had been in the pipeline since the announcement, at the end of 2019, of the takeover of this emblematic hotel in the Emirati capital, one of the most expensive in the world due to the cost of its...

Set on the edge of Victoria Harbour with a view of the Star Ferries crossing the bay, the Regent Hong Kong is preparing to become once again what it has always been since its beginnings in 1980: one of the emblematic hotels of the Asian metropolis. Already in the hands of IHG since 2015 under the InterContinental banner, the hotel is set to become...

Four Seasons will soon discover a new city in Asia, Taipei. "Taipei has long been a target destination for Four Seasons as we look to expand our presence in Asia's most important cities," said Bart Carnahan, President of Global Development for the luxury hotel group. As always, the location of the hotel will be prestigious, in the...

Updated on 15/2 at 11:30 a.m. Launched at the end of summer 2021, IHG's Vignette Collection is already in full swing. Month after month, this umpteenth brand launched by hotel groups to offer their commercial power to independent hotels or small groups whose special character will in return enhance their portfolio...