Lyon

"Optimum+ is finding its customers," assures Benjamin Huteau, Director of the South-East TGV Inoui Division, who this week presented an initial assessment of this new class, launched exclusively at the beginning of January on the Paris-Lyon route. An improved version of the Optimum class, which replaced Business 1ère, Optimum+ is offered on all 19 daily return services…

A transition to automatic writing. In three years, since its launch in January 2023, Accor's Handwritten Collection has reached around forty operational hotels and even more in development, with 45 establishments expected in France and internationally. Among the latter is a second address in Bucharest, the Tacadra hotel, but…

While its AVE, its high-speed trains built by Talgo, already run between Lyon and Barcelona and from Marseille to Madrid, Renfe has been trying in vain for years to get these same trains approved for departure from Paris. Faced with these difficulties, as well as the lack of prospects for real progress on…

The Lyon idyll continues for Spark by Hilton, which is keeping the flame alive with a new opening. On 16 February, the Spark by Hilton Lyon Eurexpo hotel, formerly the ParKest hotel, became the third representative of this still recent brand, positioned at the top end of the budget segment. It could quickly become a benchmark address for MICE...

Despite an international profile that grows stronger every year - 20 countries on five continents - GL events has not forgotten its roots: Lyon. A destination whose appeal the events giant continues to nurture, as confirmed by the results of the past year. By 2025, the group's four Lyon-based venues - Eurexpo Lyon,...

The SNCF operates 11 Grand Voyageur lounges in France, which are one of the key elements of its commercial offering for business travellers. They are regularly updated and even extended. This will once again be the case for the Paris lounge at Gare de Lyon, the busiest...

On 8 January, SNCF launched the new Optimum class, which replaces Business 1ère, as well as its Optimum + version on the Paris-Lyon route alone. On this route, the company operates 19 daily round trips on the TGV Inouï, with departures every 30 minutes on the hour...

Ethiopian Airlines will continue its expansion in France in 2026. The Ethiopian carrier will be serving Lyon airport. But with one of the shortest stopovers on offer: Geneva. The only real hub airline in sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopian Airlines will be offering three flights a week from...

The addition of Lyon airport SNCF station to the Emirates network will enable passengers to travel seamlessly from new French regions to the Emirates global network on a single ticket combining flight and TGV. This integrated service offers passengers a seamless, simplified experience: a single ticket now covers...

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...

High-speed development before a phase of consolidation in the years to come: Trenitalia has taken stock of a year 2025 full of new developments for the Italian company. Celebrating four years on the French railways this month, Trenitalia's first event in April was the reopening of the...

The Paris-Lyon line, SNCF's most profitable, continues to whet appetites. After Trenitalia at the end of 2021, and while waiting for Renfe's AVEs still blocked at Lyon Part-Dieu, a newcomer has come out of the woodwork, Claret, following the favourable opinion issued on 1 December by the French Transport Regulation Authority (ART). This...

The countdown is on. SNCF has just opened bookings for its new Optimum class, which business travellers will be able to discover on 8 January 2026 on all trains departing from or arriving in Paris. As a reminder, this class will replace the current Business 1ère, with the new name having less of a "Pro" connotation...

The Bordeaux-Lyon service is back in the spotlight. This time, it's not by conventional train, via Limoges, Montluçon and Roanne, as in the days of the late Railcoop, but by TGV via the Ile-de-France region, at the initiative of the SNCF. The national railway company is reportedly planning this new high-speed line for 2027 to...

After the TGV Inoui, the SNCF is adding the Ouigo trains to and from Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport to its Train + air offer, which allows you to travel with a single ticket by train and then by plane to and from Lyon airport. This new offer concerns trains serving the south of France, the...

Trenitalia is continuing to expand in France since its launch in December 2021. From 15 December, the Italian airline will be adding 5 extra return trips on its flagship Paris-Lyon route. This will bring its daily service on this route to 14 departures in each direction on weekdays. This increase comes...

Business travellers may not have realised it, but the Hilton group now has a new brand for its expansion in France: Spark by Hilton. Launched in Lyon in mid-summer, on the banks of the Saône, this brand positioned at the top end of the budget segment...

Not the metamorphosis of a historic site, as in Lille recently with the former headquarters of the Scalbert-Dupont bank, but the rebirth of an existing establishment that had been closed for several years: the Océania group is setting up in Lyon with the transformation of the former Median hotel, in the 8th arrondissement. Bought by the Breton group in 2022, at the same time as the...

Updated on 2 July at 8:30 pm The attempt at conciliation by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) on 25 June has failed. The call for strike action on 3 and 4 July issued by the UNSA-ICNA union, the second largest among air traffic controllers, has even been joined by a...

While the Radisson Collection luxury brand is expected to open in Paris by 2027, on the rue de Rivoli, it has just made its entry into France via Lyon. "It's a start that matches our ambitions," says Tom Flanagan, General Manager for Northern and Western Europe at Radisson Hotel Group....