Marseille

SNCF is not the only company to suffer from delays in the delivery of rail equipment by Alstom. Transdev Rail Sud Inter-Métropoles will only have 8 of the 16 Omeo Premium trainsets it ordered to start operating the TER Marseille-Toulon-Nice line on 29 June. This production delay in the...

Reaching into their pockets to bolster their lifestyle offering: recently, hotel groups have not been shy about making acquisitions to bolster their brand portfolios with trendy hotels. After Hilton's takeover of NoMad and Graduate in spring 2024, Hyatt's takeover of...

This is certainly no coincidence. After the Paris airports, the two largest French airports in terms of passenger traffic are located in the south of France. In 2024, Nice will be back to its pre-covid level, flirting with 15 million passengers. Last year, the Côte d'Azur hub recorded growth of 3.5%,...

While Nouvelair's summer timetable does not offer any new destinations, it does see a significant increase in flight frequencies from Tunis. The only recent innovation from Tunisia's main private carrier: the opening last winter of three weekly frequencies (Wednesday, Friday and Sunday) between Tunis and Rabat in Morocco. For the next season...

While many new hotels are expected to open in Paris (see article) and the Paris region in 2025, here is the programme of openings expected this year in France's major cities. AMIENS YOU Urban Home (during 2025) The lifestyle brand You Urban Home will be continuing its development with a fourth establishment, contributing to the emergence of a...

It's going to be a busy summer for Transavia. The Air France subsidiary is preparing to add several routes - ten to be precise - from the main French airports to its catalogue. Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes and Lyon are all involved in this major offensive, which will begin on 30 March with the launch of the Orly-Amsterdam flight. The KLM hub will be...

A few days ago, SNCF Gares & Connexions and its subsidiary Arep presented its plan to extend Marseille Saint-Charles station in Marseille, in the presence of local politicians. This major project will see the construction of a new station below "Les Halles Saint-Charles", as well as the opening of an underground passageway...

Trenitalia is gearing up for its planned ramp-up in France with the changeover to summer timetables. From 15 June 2025, its high-speed Frecciarossa trains - the "red arrows" - will continue beyond Lyon to serve Marseille Saint-Charles station, with 4 return trips a day. The...

Schools, hospitals, government departments, electricity and gas companies: many trade unions are mobilising on 5 December for a day of action against the cost-cutting measures in Michel Barnier's government's draft budget for 2025. Or the late Barnier government, as the possibility of a motion of censure is so great this December.

The low-cost, low-carbon easyHotel chain is strengthening its presence in France with the opening of a hotel in Marseille in the last few days. This follows the opening of its first hotel in Nice, and the opening of two hotels in the Paris region, one near Paris CDG and Villepinte, and the other in Aubervilliers. "Marseille has been...

The opening up to rail competition is set to accelerate in 2025 with the announcement today that Trenitalia will be offering services as far as Marseille on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille route, which is the busiest and, above all, the most lucrative for SNCF. "We are currently awaiting the final authorisation for services to start in 2025", the company confirmed to us this morning...

As we head back to school in 2024, the airlines are introducing a whole host of new services. And destinations in South-East Asia do not have the monopoly on major announcements - even if the return of direct flights from Paris to Manila or Kuala Lumpur is likely to be of interest to business travellers... who should be particularly interested...

Ethiopian Airlines is continuing its expansion in Europe this winter. In particular, it is introducing new services to Marseille. The route, inaugurated in 2019 with three weekly frequencies with a stopover at Milan-Malpensa, will be transformed from 2 December, adopting a different trajectory. The airline will be offering three weekly flights...

A single building now incorporating Halls A and B, with a simplified passenger pathway, and a terminal with an additional 22,000 m2: this is what Terminal 1 at Marseille-Provence airport looks like, as it was inaugurated on 19 June. It took three years of work to transform the terminal...

China Eastern is opening a direct service between Marseille and Shanghai from 2 July, with 3 weekly flights on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The service is expected to be seasonal during the summer, but could be extended throughout the year depending on the success of the route. The flights will be operated by Boeing Dreamliner...

Determined to extend the tourist season as far as possible, the Marseille Tourist Office is betting more than ever on business tourism to achieve this objective. This is a challenge in which the Tourist Office is supported by the Convention Bureau, which is responsible for the city as a whole, including Aix-en-Provence. The city of Marseille has become a key player in the...

France's major airports continued to show signs of recovery in 2023, according to the first figures published by the various hub managers in France. However, some airports continued to post lower performances than in 2019. This is the case at Paris-CDG, Lyon and Toulouse. But others, such as Beauvais, Marseille, Nice and...

A few months after making its debut in France, the Spanish company Renfe is continuing to make its mark in France. Launched on the Lyon-Barcelona route on 13 July, and then between Marseille and Madrid almost immediately afterwards, its AVE high-speed trains are now to be extended to Paris. This extension of its services is in line with...

Meeting as an inter-union group at the end of August, the eight main French trade unions announced their intention to make Friday 13 October a day of action on pay, gender equality and environmental protection. This cross-industry strike action is likely to cause a great deal of disruption in French skies between Thursday evening and Saturday...

Nearly three months after work was completed, the new MICE facilities at the Village Club du Soleil were unveiled in mid-June. The operator, which was founded in Marseille in the early 1960s, has invested to give a new dimension to the corporate side of its Phocaean site. It will have cost some 350,000...