luxury hotels

The Dubai-based Jumeirah group is to give a new future to one of Geneva's oldest hotels, the Richemond. Opened in 1875, the hotel has passed through the hands of prestigious groups such as the Dorchester Collection and Rocco Forte over the last few decades, but it has been in a state of disrepair since its closure on 31 August 2020. The pandemic has...

Meticulous in its choice of locations, Peninsula has only ten addresses in the world, all of them exclusive, such as 5th Avenue, Beverly Hills, the Bund, the Marunouchi district or Avenue Kleber in Paris, overlooking the Arc de Triomphe. It was in Paris, moreover, that the luxury hotel operator last opened its doors, and...

With around twenty luxury hotels around the world today and another thirty or so to come, the Six Senses brand, which became part of IHG following its acquisition in 2019, has no shortage of ambition. Not least because the future of this brand, launched in 1995 around exclusive resorts with a focus on sustainability and well-being, is being written...

Accor is expanding its offering around the world at the start of this year. In India, for example, Novotel has just added a second hotel in Mumbai. After the north of the city and the area around the popular Juhu Beach, the business hotel chain has headed for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. Loyal business travellers...

In an interview with American magazine Women's Wear Daily, luxury brand Louis Vuitton announced its desire to open a hotel under its own name in Paris. Michael Burke, the CEO of the French luxury brand, told the publication of his plans to transform the offices of the Louis Vuitton headquarters...

The Côte d'Azur is getting back one of its historic palaces, while Nice is seeing one of its oldest establishments reborn in luxury: the Hôtel Plaza. Opened in 1848 as the Hôtel de France, in the early days of aristocratic tourism on the Riviera, it was extensively transformed at the turn of the 1920s to present a...

Is the covid period, with all its frustrations of fine travel, part of the current dynamic in the luxury hotel industry? From the looks of things, there's every reason to believe so. "More than ever, our customers are prioritising more meaningful journeys and time spent with their loved ones.

From history to hospitality. In order to consolidate public finances in the wake of the 2008 crisis, David Cameron's government put a number of Crown jewels up for sale in the early 2010s, some of which will be the talk of the London hotel industry in the future. The Ministry of Defence was...

Already an iconic landmark, the Carlton in Cannes will add a new dimension to its prestige in spring 2023 when it becomes part of the Regent Hotels luxury brand. Used to welcoming celebrities to the Croisette, the hotel currently sports the InterContinental brand, one of the flagship brands of the IHG group. Renovated over a two-year period under the...

While Fairmont has just made a remarkable entry into Qatar, with a hotel housed in the emblematic Katara Towers and associated with a prestigious 132-suite Raffles, the month of November was above all an opportunity for Accor's premium brand to strengthen its presence in Morocco with two prestigious establishments added to the...

A building in the shape of intersecting scimitars, luxurious rooms, a contemporary aesthetic with Middle Eastern influences: the Raffles and Fairmont Doha, housed in the Katara Towers, will leave their legacy long after the World Cup that has just begun in Qatar. Probably much more so, in fact, than all the stadiums built for...

Business travellers will certainly have to be patient before they can discover the new hotels proposed by the luxurious Dorchester Collection in Tokyo and Accor's premium brand, Fairmont, in Dubai. But these emblematic projects stand out today for their impact on the skyline of their respective host cities....

The opening of a Peninsula hotel is always an event, as the Asian hotelier has only had ten addresses in the world since the inauguration of Peninsula Paris eight years ago. It is undoubtedly the hallmark of luxury to know how to make people wait. Announced in the middle of the last decade, its eleventh hotel, the Peninsula Istanbul,...

The Rosewood group seems to have found a providential windfall in transforming the former headquarters of banking institutions into ultra-chic hotels in order to consolidate its presence in Europe. This summer, for example, the Asian hotelier set up shop in Vienna in the Erste Bank premises, which have been converted to offer exclusive hospitality. In the near future, this is also how the brand...

A luxurious vestige of Europe's railway past, the Orient Express is in the process of inventing a new future for itself. This revival has been in the making since Accor took over this legendary brand in 2017, with the hotel group planning to extend it through the development of prestige hotels and the operation of a new generation of luxury trains....

A crossroads for bohemian Europeans in the last century, a city that welcomed artists such as Jean Genet, Paul Morand, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Keith Richards, and a haven for all the writers of the beat generation, Tangier is now turning to luxury tourism. Morocco's second economic hub after Casablanca is expecting two new luxury hotels...

Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky has entered the final phase of a vast renovation programme that will see the hotel become a full part of the Anantara luxury brand. One of the city's most emblematic hotels, this historic establishment went through several incarnations as the flagship of the Golden Tulip group from the mid-1970s, before...

Among Switzerland's legendary hotels, the Palace Lucerne is the equal of the Hôtel des Bergues in Geneva, the Lausanne Palace and the Montreux Palace, opened in 1906 like its Lucerne counterpart. All these prestigious hotels have one thing in common: they combine Belle Epoque charm with the chic ambience of the Riviera. Located close to...

A new luxury address made its debut on the Viennese hotel scene on Monday. The Rosewood Vienna opened its doors on 1 August. For its fifth establishment in Europe, the top-of-the-range brand has invested in a choice address: the former headquarters of Erste Group Bank AG, one of the...

Istanbul continues to attract international hotel chains, an attraction made all the more real by the dynamism of local investors, encouraged in particular by Turkey's central government. By launching major infrastructure projects, the government is also promoting local capitalism, which is benefiting from this. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:"...