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One year on from the acquisition of OfficeRiders, what are your thoughts? Nathanaël Mathieu - It took us a year to manage the merger of the two entities. We had to resolve a real question of identity - in terms of the teams and the technical side. The aim, when Worklib bought OfficeRiders, was to add an extra layer in terms of experience...

"Optimism" is not the most fashionable word in the vocabulary of French professionals in these troubled times... And the latest report devoted to the French MICE market at the IFTM emphasised uncertainty above all. The leitmotiv assumed by Amex GBT in its latest report is all the more appreciable: the TMC...

Convene, a specialist in meetings and events facilities with some forty sites in the United States and the United Kingdom, is to add a new address to its network, its 16th in New York. Convene 555 Broadway will open in spring 2026. The project was unveiled on 15 July. It includes more than 3,000 sq. m. of...

One year after the opening of Keeze Liège, the events rental group has set its sights on the 2nd arrondissement for its 18th address in the capital. The 260m² space is located on the 4th floor of 15 rue Bachaumont, just a stone's throw from the Place des Victoires, the...

It's a ritual at IMEX Frankfurt, one of the major trade fairs for the MICE industry: the 2024 ranking of the countries and cities that attract the most international congresses and conferences. IMEX 2025 was no exception to this rule. The ICCA, the International Congress and Conference Association, has made its annual rankings official and presented its report...

Bobigny is set to become the new destination for an increasingly dense IWG network in France. The HQ Bobigny Irrigo site will be inaugurated on Monday by the giant IWG (International Workplace Group). It will bring to 41 the number of group sites in the Paris suburbs alone, in addition to the 35 IWG addresses in Paris itself....

Worklib l'impatiente is pursuing its dreams of greatness, and more specifically its race for leadership. The acquisition of OfficeRiders, announced today, is a further step in this direction. Less than four years after its arrival on the flexible workspace market - in June 2021 - Worklib is already claiming the status of European leader. And finally...

Updated 13/12 at 11:30 Paris does not and should not have a monopoly on lifestyle hotels. This is the aim of a new brand, Grand Mess, which will be launched in Clermont-Ferrand in a few days' time, on 19 December, before seeing another project come to fruition in Lyon in three years' time. "Apart from Paris, many other regional cities offer...

One face-to-face meeting is worth three visios, two face-to-face meetings are worth six visios, three face-to-face meetings are worth... In order to assess the benefits of a physical meeting rather than a remote one, travel managers would do well to master their table of three. This ratio emerges from a study recently carried out by the Accor group among 9,000 travellers...

And 11! On 17 October, Newton Offices celebrated the inauguration of its 11th office building in France. At the same time, it passed the 60,000 m² mark for office space in France. For this new site, the flexible workspace specialist has opted for a destination of choice. In this case...

The Originals Hotels made no secret of its desire to highlight its offers for business travellers. Interviewed at the beginning of the year by Voyages d'Affaires, Olivier Dufit, the cooperative's managing director, explained that stage evenings would be "one of the spearheads" of the group in 2024. While this offer already existed,...

Naboo is stepping up its expansion into the corporate seminar sector by dipping into the €7.5m it raised at the end of 2023 to acquire one or more events agencies. The names of the first acquisitions could be announced by the autumn. "The aim is to equip these agencies with our technologies, so that bookings can be made quickly and efficiently.

Keeze continues to add to its portfolio of event venues in Paris with the inauguration of a space nestled on the sixth and top floor of a building at 7 rue de Bucarest, in the 8th arrondissement, equidistant between Place de Clichy and Gare Saint-Lazare. The light, modern extension, with its large bay windows, stands in stark contrast to the...

While Park Hyatt continues to establish itself in the world's major cities, with a new hotel due to open in London at the end of the year, it is not sparing any detours into the world of top-of-the-range resorts. Particularly in Africa, where, after opening a hotel in Zanzibar in the middle of the last decade, the luxury brand has just welcomed...

"See you in the autumn": that, in a nutshell, is the watchword among businesses just a few days before the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Kactus, the specialist event booking platform, and Rejolt, the marketplace, are in a good position to observe the knock-on effects on events...

A seminar venue in the great outdoors, but accessible using the Navigo pass, with a T13 tram stop right next door and the Saint-Cyr-l'École RER station not far away. The café-hotel Le Bout du Parc responds to two major trends in business meetings and events today: the need for...

High up in the Paris skyline, with its convention space designed to accommodate up to 2,800 people, the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile keeps the flame of MICE alive within the Hyatt group. Like other hotels in Europe, moreover, well-equipped with meeting rooms of all sizes: the Grand Hyatt Barcelona, which has just...

Is it easy for companies to take their staff camping? Céline Bossanne - Let's be honest, there's always some apprehension. For organisers, even if more and more people have heard of Huttopia, without always taking the plunge, coming to us is a bit of a risk. Take...

The IMEX trade fair in Frankfurt gave the Radisson Group the opportunity to review the development of its technological solutions for meeting and event organisers. Among the new features was a long-term partnership with MeetingPackage, one of the leading SaaS solutions for event management, which opens up a new sales channel for the group....

A few weeks ago, the Spanish group Barcelo announced a €50 million expansion plan in Portugal, on the island of Madeira. This investment will support the construction of a new hotel in the historic centre of Funchal, due to open at the end of 2025 next to the Mercado dos Lavradores, as well as...