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Marriott: very high-end products expected in Asia and...
Soon to be fifty hotels in Dubai, ten or so openings planned in Qatar, a boom in its luxury brands in Saudi Arabia: the Marriott group is continuing to expand its presence in the Middle East. The American hotelier is preparing to add 5,000 rooms by the end of 2023, with around twenty establishments in the pipeline. As the...
Delta Hotels, Marriott's new priority in the UK
Business travellers accustomed to staying at many Marriott hotels in the UK will soon see a major change when these establishments come under another brand of the American group: Delta Hotels. Between next October and the end of summer 2023, a phase of renovation and rebranding will begin at Delta Hotels in the...
The New York Marriott Marquis has completed its transformation
The New York Marriott Marquis has just completed its renovation, following on from that unveiled in autumn 2021 for the Hilton Midtown, one of the city's iconic hotels, opened in 1963 and boasting 1,878 rooms and a huge MICE area...
The global hotel industry close to pre-crisis levels
Since last spring, the global hotel industry seems to have drawn an almost definitive line under the troubled months and months. This upturn was confirmed by the results presented by the major groups in mid-summer. "Once again this quarter, Accor recorded very strong growth in its business, with sales exceeding...
The W Toronto opens its doors
Business travellers with a penchant for lifestyle addresses now have access to a new accommodation option for their business trips to Toronto. The W Toronto hotel has just opened its doors in Canada's largest city, and should soon be making a name for itself in the address books of local guests. "Our discreet interpretation and...
Marriott and IHG to cease operations in Russia
Are we witnessing a reversal in the jurisprudence of hotel groups concerning their activities in Russia? Shortly after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, most of them announced the suspension of their future developments and investments in Russia. Some, such as Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott and Radisson, also decided to close...
Marriott Bonvoy: a mobile app redesigned for Android users
Marriott is enhancing the experience of its Marriott Bonvoy application for Android smartphone users. Since last year, iPhone owners have already been able to take advantage of a revamped version of this app, which gives access to more than 8,000 hotels worldwide, as well as - and this was a new feature - 65,000 top-of-the-range holiday accommodations...
A Qatari version of the Royal Méridien, the jewel of Place Vendôme
No one can bet that the French team will retain their title of world football champions. But one thing is certain, as the competition draws to a close in Qatar at the end of the year, visitors to the emirate will find little hints of France. Particularly at the heart of a vast luxury complex named after the chic...
JW Marriott opens a luxury hotel in Frankfurt
As the MICE world gathers in Frankfurt these days for the IMEX trade fair, the Marriott group has unveiled a new establishment for its JW Marriott luxury brand, marking the brand's debut in Germany. Following recent openings in Sao Paulo and Istanbul, and already well-established in South America, the...
Marriott: soon a huge conference hotel in Munich
To become nothing less than one of the most sought-after conference hotels in Germany, if not Europe. Expected to open at the end of the year, the Munich Marriott Hotel City West is clearly setting out its ambitions. These ambitions are based on concrete elements, with a plethora of facilities to host professional meetings. Newly built in the up-and-coming...
JW Marriott: Sao Paulo and Istanbul, before Tokyo
JW Marriott is continuing to expand in the world's major cities. By 2025, the American group's premium brand has announced its intention to open a hotel in Tokyo, with 200 rooms and a MICE area of almost 1,000 m2. The hotel will be located in a new building complex, the result of the redevelopment of the former railway depot...
W Hotels brings its lifestyle spirit to the heart of Dubai Marina
Already present in Dubai, on the artificial island of Palm Jumeirah, the lifestyle brand W is moving closer to the emirate's Dowtown by setting up in the heart of Dubai Marina. Located on Jumeirah Beach, the 31-storey hotel is distinguished by its glass architecture, all of which is extended, in keeping with the spirit of...
Marriott: 1,000 hotels and many more to come in the...
In the bull's eye. Marriott International has just passed the 1,000 hotel mark in the Europe - Middle East - Africa (EMEA) region. The American group has chosen an emblematic destination, London, to celebrate this major milestone. Now open, the Westin London City, close to the River Thames and the financial heart of the capital...
A Courtyard and Residence Inn dual-brand complex at Paris CDG
Projects integrating two hotel brands are all the rage at the moment. A few days after Radisson announced the simultaneous opening of a Radisson Red and Radisson at Oslo airport, another hub, and not the least for French business travellers, that of Paris CDG, is seeing the arrival of a complex from the Marriott International group....
Hotel group rankings: Marriott in the lead, Chinese momentum
The worldwide top 10 presented by the MKG Group confirms the hierarchy presented by Voyages d'Affaires last March. Marriott remains by far the world's leading group, the American hotel company having recorded growth of +4% in 2021. This represents growth in line with that of previous years, of +3.1% in 2020...
Marriott to quadruple its offering in Vietnam
Vietnam's economic dynamism has not escaped the attention of hotel groups, and neither has its potential for tourism development. After Spain's Melia, which plans to strengthen its offer of a dozen establishments in partnership with Vinpearl, one of the country's largest hotel owners, it is now Marriott's turn to show its strong ambitions. The American group...
Ukraine: hoteliers support refugees, development suspended in Russia
Updated on 18 March "Ukraine will win". On 2 March, Ukraine's largest hotel group, Reikartz Hotel, clearly showed its support for the Russian invasion. With around sixty hotels in Kiev and some thirty towns across the country, the hotel group is bearing the full brunt of the war ravaging its country, having announced as early as...
Hotel groups: growth and global hierarchy at the end of 2021
While Marriott has just opened its 8,000th hotel in the world - quite a symbol, since this hotel is located right next to the group's future new headquarters in Bethesda, on the outskirts of Washington - the American group remains the world leader in hotels, with almost 1.5 million rooms....
Leading hotel chains back in the black in 2021
The hotel world can only rejoice after two years of severe turbulence linked to a pandemic that spared no region of the world. The cascade of results announced by the sector's leaders for the past year shows that most of them are back in the black. Marriott, the world's leading hotel group with...
Hotel groups make residence compulsory
Is it its resilience compared to the traditional hotel industry, recently highlighted by the pandemic? Or is it the way it responds to new customer expectations? Or is it the strength of its product, aimed as much at business travellers as at families and groups of friends? It's probably a bit of all of the above...






































