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After the strong winds of travel revenge in the leisure sector, business travel and events are taking over to bolster the performance of hotel groups. Accor, IHG, Hilton and Marriott all agree with this assessment, as they announced their third-quarter results and took part in a question-and-answer session with...

A new hotel in Barcelona and a redesigned establishment in the heart of Madrid's financial district, a combo in Cork, developments in Africa and Dubai: the Marriott group is offering new hotels to business travellers. On its way to reaching the 100-hotel mark in Europe, the Moxy lifestyle brand, for example, has set up...

New York's hotel icons are each reinventing themselves. Soon, in the spring of 2025, the city will welcome back one of its iconic addresses, the Waldorf Astoria. The largest hotel in the world when it opened in 1931, this monument to American hospitality closed its doors in March 2017. Bankruptcy of its owner, the insurer...

Marriott is taking its turn in measuring the carbon footprint of events organised in the group's hotels through the "Connect Responsibly with Marriott Bonvoy Events" programme. To be launched worldwide by the end of October, this new programme will provide detailed reports on the environmental impact of meetings, available on the Marriott website...

Knowing how to be flexible. That's not the least of its qualities, and the Marriott group is demonstrating it by changing the name of its Four Points Express by Sheraton brand, recently launched in Europe. A few months after the opening of the first establishments in London, as well as in Istanbul, Bursa and Antalya in Turkey, the brand designed to increase the...

Marriott is continuing its offensive in the mid-range hotel sector. In 2023, the group launched the Four Points Express by Sheraton brand, which made its debut this year in Europe, in London and Turkey, as well as in Japan, as well as a low-cost long-stay brand in the United States, StudioRes, which made its debut...

For ten years now, the Moxy brand has been deploying its playful sense of lifestyle built around lively social spaces and industrial design. Particularly in Europe, where Marriott's mid-range brand accounts for almost two-thirds of its establishments, with nearly 90 hotels in operation, compared with just over one...

Luxury, design and an ideal location overlooking the Gulf of Mexico: the St. Regis Longboat Key Resort in Florida has just been added to Marriott's already impressive portfolio of luxury hotels, with more than 500 establishments worldwide and some 250 future projects. The opening...

Officialised in August, the inauguration of the Moxy Chongqing marks the arrival of the lifestyle brand in a destination better known to business travellers than holidaymakers... The establishment, which has 360 rooms, is located around 100 metres from the People's Liberation Monument, with three metro stations within walking distance. The Moxy Chongqing...

In recent weeks, hotel groups have taken it in turns to present their progress in the area of eco-responsibility. In its Serve 360 report - named after the platform that guides the group's CSR efforts - Marriott outlined the progress it has made in recent years...

The pandemic demonstrated the vitality of SMEs and SMIs, who were the first to return to business travel when the first restrictions were lifted. It's a trend that has continued unabated ever since, and one that is of the utmost interest to the leaders in the hotel industry, who were previously more inclined to pamper large multinationals than to attract this...

Monastic luxury and a futuristic silhouette. In just a few days, the city of Nice will have seen the arrival of two new hotels with diametrically opposed styles. Out of respect for the oldest and most luxurious of them all, let's give priority to the Hôtel du Couvent, which took up residence in mid-June within walls imbued with a sense of tranquillity and spirituality...

With 69 hotels currently operating in France, Marriott is one of the world's leading hotel chains with the strongest presence in the country. Far, far away of course from Accor or Louvre Hotels, and also at a safe distance from another major American player, Best Western, whose French network includes almost 300 hotels. But its offer...

Sébastien Bazin spoke of the enormous potential of the Indian market, but also of the difficulties in exploiting it, during the presentation of the results for the last quarter and for 2023. "We have around sixty hotels in India, compared with nearly 700 in China, even though we started developing there at the same time...

Modified on 11/03 at 17:30 With a large number of hotels due to open around the world in 2023 and further growth expected in 2024, the world's leading hotel groups are offering business travellers new accommodation solutions around the globe. Focus on the development of each of the major international groups, as well as on the main...

Modified on 11/03 at 17:30 A strong focus on luxury and lifestyle, but also new mid-range brands, the continued expansion of their 'collections', hotel conversions and projects galore: the development of the major hotel groups is following broadly the same path. In fact, the Marriott group has consolidated...

A more than positive year in 2023 and new growth prospects in 2024: this assessment is shared by most of the major players in the global hotel industry, including Marriott, the world's leading group, which is reporting growth in revenue per room of almost 15 % in 2023 compared with 2022,...

With the gradual upturn in international travel since 2023, China remains an attractive destination for hotel groups. Marriott recently announced a partnership with the Delonix group, which operates more than a thousand hotels in the country under a dozen different brands. The plan is to affiliate around a hundred hotels over the next few years...

The start of a new year is traditionally a time for taking stock before looking ahead to the future and new developments. In January, the SNCF announced record passenger numbers, Eurocontrol noted that European airspace was gradually approaching pre-pandemic levels...

It was the media centre for the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. It will soon be one of the world's largest convention and exhibition centres, when it opens in 2025. It will be a place to welcome heads of state to international summits held in the Chinese capital, as well as the world's leading...