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(Article updated on 19 June) After Trenitalia, the opening up to competition in the rail sector is about to become a little more of a reality in France with the arrival of Renfe. The Spanish national operator plans to launch an AVE line between Lyon and Barcelona on 13 July. Renfe will then inaugurate the Marseille-Barcelona-Madrid route on 28...

The summer of 2023 should enable Marseille to consolidate its position as France's second-largest regional airport this year, just behind Nice. In April, the Provence hub was the only one, along with Beauvais, to record passenger traffic higher than in April 2019. This represents growth of 2.1%. Cumulatively between January and April 2023, according to...

Air Transat is strengthening its presence in France. The scheduled carrier, which tends to focus on the leisure market, is now present at seven French destinations (Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris CDG and Toulouse). The airline also operates scheduled flights to Brussels and Basel-Mulhouse. During the summer, Paris-Roissy CDG is linked to five Canadian cities...

The Hilton group's ambition to double its portfolio of hotels in France will be particularly evident in the PACA region. From 23 hotels today, the American hotelier should be approaching fifty establishments by 2025, with three already planned in the south of France. One of these will open its doors this April, as...

With another day of general protests against pension reform - the tenth - scheduled for Thursday 6 April, business travel in France is likely to be disrupted throughout the week. Not least in the skies, where the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has asked airlines to...

With another day of general protests against pension reform - the tenth - scheduled for Tuesday 28 March, business travel in France is likely to be disrupted throughout the week. Not least in the skies, where the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has asked airlines to...

Updated on 24 March at 1pm While industrial action against pension reform has been causing disruption in French skies since the start of the week, it is expected to continue until at least 27 March. And not just at Paris-Orly and Marseille-Provence, the two airports which have seen the most disruption...

Updated on 20 March at 4.30pm The disruption caused by industrial action against pension reform is continuing in the transport sector. A strike by air traffic controllers on Monday 20 March prompted the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) to ask airlines to reduce their flight schedules at Paris-Orly...

The embodiment of lifestyle hotels at affordable prices, Ruby Hotels is stepping up its expansion in Europe. Launched in Germany at the end of the last decade, the brand began by conquering the major cities on the other side of the Rhine, before rapidly moving on to London, Vienna and more recently Amsterdam, Geneva and Zurich. Travellers will soon be able to discover...

The opening up of the French rail system to competition is gathering pace. Following in the footsteps of Trenitalia, the first AVE (Renfe's high-speed train) from Barcelona arrived in Lyon at midday on Monday for a "dry run", a trial run without passengers in preparation for the imminent arrival of the Spanish national rail company...

Business travellers in Marseille will soon be able to fly direct to a new European business destination. Air Serbia will be positioning itself on the Marseille-Belgrade route. The Serbian national airline - in which Etihad has a 18% stake - has scheduled its arrival at Marseille airport for 20 May. Marseille...

On Tuesday 4 October, Marseille will be hosting Séminaires Business Events at the Friche de la Belle de Mai. This trade show dedicated to business tourism will bring together 80 exhibitors from the south-east of France, including a number of events professionals from the City of Marseille, which has become a key MICE destination. And with business in the city picking up again...

Senssi, a newcomer to the MICE market last December, recently inaugurated its very first venue for corporate customers. The young start-up launched by Anaïs and Benoît Jaouen has set its sights on Marseille. And more specifically in the 6th arrondissement of the city, where a 100 sq...

Is the office as a place of work still as attractive today? Christophe Burckart - Yes, and I'm even surprised by its resilience, because it's a place where people socialise. Even if company employees were not very present in our spaces, their occupancy rate has never fallen below 70 % since March...

Twin Jet is continuing its coverage of the French regions with the resumption of the Marseille-Toulouse route on 17 January. This will be the fourth destination to be served from Marseille. Targeting business customers, Twin Jet will be offering 5 direct return flights a week between the two cities. Flight times will be just one hour. The flights will...

After opening two hotels in Nice at the beginning of the summer - Holiday Inn Express and Crowne Plaza, in the Grand Arenas business district - the British group IHG is continuing to roll out its brands on the Mediterranean coast. In October, its lifestyle brand Hôtel Indigo will be opening in the seaside town of Cagnes-sur-Mer...

The IHG Group is rolling out its hybrid meetings offer in France. The British hotelier presented its "Meet with Confidence" programme last March. The programme is based on five basic principles: cleanliness and security, of course, with check-in/check-out without...

Airlines are back in business as travel restrictions are eased and vaccination campaigns take off. Nice airport recently sent out a positive signal with a more ambitious summer programme. In turn, Alitalia is set to move forward again, particularly on the French market. The airline has just announced the resumption of flights...

And that's two for Startway in Marseille. Within a few weeks of each other, this coworking specialist will have opened two spaces in the city. As is often the case with Startway, whose partner is the La Poste group, one of these developments involves the conversion of dedicated premises into new-generation workspaces. In...

North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. These are the three geographical areas which benefit most from the new summer routes at Marseille-Provence international airport. In North Africa, the first airline to inaugurate new routes is Air Arabia Maroc. The low-cost carrier now offers flights to Fez and Oujda. Marseille-Fès is served...