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Marriott: a year 2025 rich in openings
In addition to its leadership position in the luxury hotel sector, which is constantly being strengthened, the Marriott group can count on its 'select service' brands and its collections of boutique hotels to maintain the growth of its offer in France and Europe. Spearheading this expansion, Moxy Hotels is now very close to...
S. de Courtivron (Covivio): "We talk to all the groups".
One of Europe's leading hotel investment companies, Covivio currently owns 311 hotels with assets worth €6.4 billion. Located mainly in France, the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as in Southern Europe and the Benelux countries, these hotels are operated by major hotel groups through leases - in 62% of cases - or...
From the world to the Balkans for the hotel industry
Its slender silhouette, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, soars high into the Belgrade sky, in a district undergoing major transformation at the confluence of the Save and Danube rivers. Symbolising the Serbian capital's ambitions as the business hub of the Balkans, the Kula Belgrade skyscraper is designed to offer luxurious hospitality...
MICE and business travel, the driving forces behind the growth of...
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...
Marriott: new business hotels from Barcelona to Dubai
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: rediscovered icons and new hotels
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: measurement and compensation for MICE events
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...
Four Points Flex by Sheraton: new name, new ambitions
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 rolls out mid-range City Express brand in the United States
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...
Moxy: heading for 100 hotels in Europe
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...
Marriott: symbolic bar and new partnership
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...
Marriott enhances its lifestyle and MICE offering in China
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...
CSR: progress reports from a number of hotel groups
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...
Marriott: an all-in-one travel platform for SMEs
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...
Nice: monastic luxury, iconic architecture
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...
Marriott: 10 new hotels in France by the end of 2025
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...
Accor strengthens its position in India, Marriott in Poland and Hilton in...
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...
An update on the development of the leading hotel chains in 2023
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...
Rankings: the main hotel groups at the end of 2023
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...
Business travel, a key player in the hotel industry's good results
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,...







































