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Updated on 11 October at 2pm Ranked fifth in the GDS-Index last year, Bordeaux is back where it was in 2021, in ninth place. A disappointment? Not necessarily, as Bordeaux's score has risen from 85.10 to 87.10, reflecting the city's growing commitment to a sustainable tourism strategy...

While Munich awaits the opening of a Rosewood luxury hotel at the end of the month, the Bavarian capital has also recently welcomed a new business hotel. And not the least: the Munich Marriott City West, a 398-room powerhouse with a huge MICE area of almost 2,000 square metres.

As the Covid era draws to a close, how do professionals view the office? Having once been the rule, how is teleworking, which now occupies a variable geometry depending on the organisation, perceived? These are some of the questions addressed by Comet in its new study published on...

Peninsula vs Raffles: a promising battle between these two legends of the luxury hotel industry. This September, London will be the scene of a battle for the best opening of the year in the British capital. The two brands have traditionally competed in terms of excellence and VIP services, but one thing is certain...

New and more new in Sydney's west. A fast-growing area, whose development is supported by the Australian government and the state of New South Wales, which are putting billions on the table to make this suburb a growth area. On the agenda: new transport infrastructure, new buildings, new...

How is OfficeRiders positioned in the MICE segment? Florian Delifer - OfficeRiders began in 2016 with the first version of the site. My approach was quite instinctive, when I realised that there was a waste of space in big cities. There are lots of flats, lofts...

The recent Formula 1 British Grand Prix gave the Hilton Group the opportunity to officially inaugurate its new Hilton Garden Inn, the only establishment located on the Silverstone circuit. The hotel boasts an unrivalled position along the 'Hamilton Straight', renamed in 2020 in honour of the British champion. The hotel groups...

With brands such as Pullman and Fairmont designed for major corporate meetings, and others such as MGallery more suited to smaller seminars, and some such as Sofitel for 'hand-crafted' MICE, the Accor group's range of brands opens up a wide range of possibilities for event organisers. The Global Meeting Exchange event, organised this year at the...

The 40-page report published by the IACC on 12 June is based on the testimonies of 275 meetings planners worldwide. The association of meetings and events venues, which has some 400 members around the world, has thus been able to identify changes over time in practices, expectations and projections, sometimes with strong...

As one of the hotel groups with the strongest presence in Africa's major cities, the Radisson Group is actively pursuing its development strategy. As part of this growth drive, the hotel group has signed a contract to open seven new hotels in the first half of 2023, adding a total of 1,400 new rooms...

With the pandemic behind them, analysts of the world's MICE business can get back to work on their rankings. After the ICCA and its ranking of the world's conference cities, Cvent took advantage of the IMEX trade fair in Frankfurt to unveil its 'top lists' of meeting destinations and meeting hotels...

Employees scattered like jigsaw puzzles, management split up, teams struggling to find each other: the changing world of work, accelerated by the pandemic, is turning companies' habits upside down. In some cases, companies have simply abandoned the idea of having offices and switched to full remote working. This is nothing new, but this...

Access: advantage Antwerp and Ghent are both easy to reach by car from France, with each linked by motorway. When it comes to rail, however, Antwerp has the edge. The Flemish metropolis is on the route of the Thalys trains linking Paris and Amsterdam. It takes an average of 2 hours 15 minutes to get there by train from Paris....

Belambra is providing further proof of the sustained growth of the MICE sector in France. The French leader in holiday clubs will be dedicating four of its sites entirely to business customers during the peak seminar season. In May and June on the one hand, and in September-October on the other, the clubs at Anglet, La Grande Motte,...

Stroll through the hotel lobby as if you were there, go from meeting room to conference area, visit the rooms, or even the presidential suite: rather than traditional photo galleries, the Radisson group is inviting you to take a real digital tour of the property. Its digital transformation strategy is now taking shape...

Has the health crisis changed the way people relate to the office for good? It's hard to come up with a global answer, because habits differ so much from one market to another, and from one company to another. So TravelPerk surveyed 2,000 employees, equally divided between the UK and the US, last March. And if the impact of the Covid experience is not...

The long-awaited possibility of easily organising small meetings online is no longer so far away. The Radisson group has recently enhanced its meetings offering with the launch of a real-time booking platform. Called Book it easy, this solution is designed to simplify the lives of organisers by offering them a fast and simple process...

What is the busiest day of the week for video conferences? How is the average length of a videoconference changing? Which tools are preferred by participants? These are just some of the questions raised by Zoom in the results of its latest study. Conducted over a one-year period - from November 2021 to the end of October 2022 -...

Burgundy-Franche Comté occupies a prime position when it comes to business tourism in France. This success is based on its accessibility, modern meeting and conference facilities, places steeped in history and culture, addresses offering undeniable hospitality, not to mention its remarkable wine-growing terroirs and renowned gastronomy. For reasons of...

The Côte d'Azur is getting back one of its historic palaces, while Nice is seeing one of its oldest establishments reborn in luxury: the Hôtel Plaza. Opened in 1848 as the Hôtel de France, in the early days of aristocratic tourism on the Riviera, it was extensively transformed at the turn of the 1920s to present a...