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In the wake of the health crisis, Châteauform' is stepping up its virtual events activities. The specialist in organising seminars, events and other corporate training courses has just inaugurated three new infrastructures in quick succession. The aim is to help companies maintain their event activities despite the constraints imposed by the pandemic. In fact, as the people in charge of...

With the way people relate to the office having changed profoundly in recent months, the time has come to reorganise the market. Bird Office is taking the lead by shifting the focus to the teleworking segment. Not home working, the 'home office' that so many employees have been willy-nilly experimenting with during the...

Then, all of a sudden, nothing. "Our hotel, which opened in June 2019, was running at 500 km an hour, and then we had to abruptly cease our activity", sums up Madelijn Vervoord, general manager of the InterContinental Lyon-Hôtel-Dieu. With the announcement of the lockdown, the Académie, the hotel's convention centre which used to host 100 to 120 events a month, was forced to...

Travelling around the world several times in the same year, taking advantage of an unexpected tête-à-tête to develop your business, leaving your business card everywhere so that people remember you: the coronavirus sketches, in shadow, the portrait of the perfect business traveller. An unfortunate mimicry that has led to the consequences we all know about....

Barely open, already closed. A few months after its inauguration in June 2019, the InterContinental Lyon - Hôtel-Dieu was forced to suspend its activities due to a pandemic. We were going at 500 an hour and had to come to an abrupt halt," says Madelijn Vervoord, the hotel's general manager. The evening we were told we had to close...

Has the upturn in business lived up to your expectations? Gérald Coutaudier - I'm pleasantly surprised. Especially as we were quite worried after 11 May. We thought the phone would start ringing again from that date. But no, nothing until 29 May and the announcement of the phase...

Like most hotel groups, NH Hotel is rolling out rethought sanitary protocols in all its hotels. To this end, the Spanish group, now part of Minor Hotels, has teamed up with one of the world's leading certification and inspection companies, the Swiss company SGS, to create the Feel Safe at...

Chateauform is reviewing the sanitary aspects of its offer in order to ensure a safe return to business. "Safety and hygiene are an integral part of our obligations, and COVID-19 has led us to adapt and strengthen our protocols to offer our customers even greater pleasure and safety", said Gérald Coutaudier, CEO of Chateauform.

You took part in the GBTA France webinar on Thursday: what was the mood among the other players in the market? Arnaud Katz - The reality is that everyone wants and needs to get things moving again. So there was a lot of energy. Everyone wanted to move on a bit...

Since the advent of Covid-19, virtual interaction has replaced human contact, which has been restricted by the health measures of confinement and social distancing. Isolated and hyper-connected at the same time, the populations concerned - some 2.6 billion people since confinement was imposed in India - have...

"Is there a doctor on board? It will probably be some time before we hear this urgent invitation from the captain of a commercial aircraft. As a result, Lufthansa has just released its employees who have undergone medical training so that they can volunteer for a specific job in a...

Chateauform', Europe's leading organiser of seminars, events and training courses, yesterday announced that it was closing its establishments until better weather returns, at least until 15 April. It is with a heavy heart that we are closing the doors of our beautiful residences," explains the group's communications department. The unprecedented crisis that we...

Between containment measures, closed borders and airline blackouts, some hotels are starting to suspend operations. As was the case in Macau a few weeks ago, Las Vegas casino hotels went on standby yesterday. While the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore hotels will close their doors for a fortnight...

The Zoku long-stay brand will make its French debut in 2021, in the 19th arrondissement, next to the Rosa Parks RER station. Easily accessible by public transport, particularly from the Gare du Nord and Gare Saint-Lazare stations, the establishment will be part of an urban development in line with its innovative residential hotel concept. After having...

For its first nomadic speakerphone for teleconferencing, Anker is offering a comprehensive model at CES 2020: the PowerConf. Its six built-in microphones can pick up voices 360° around it, within a radius of 8 metres, for up to 8 people. A special processor is responsible for reducing the noise level...

Birds squabbling in the branches, an early-morning breeze, a few blades of grass caught between the pages of a corporate presentation, and your mind starts to wander... All of a sudden, these creative, designer seminar rooms, as they are done today in hotels in the...

What type of meeting is the Domaine d'Andeols designed for? Stefan Fraenkel - It's an old hamlet in the heart of the Lubéron, whose houses have gradually been transformed into 19 houses and suites. Set in the heart of nature, on some thirty hectares of land, the site lends itself to small seminars, when participants need a...

Even in the age of almost everything digital, meeting people is just as important as before, if not more so. "Reality is a basic human need in an increasingly high-tech world": this is the conclusion of the Swedish firm Memoori, which specialises in intelligent buildings, and which emphasised the importance of human contact in a study dating back to...

A few weeks after inaugurating its new Liège-Saint Lazare space, Châteauform' has just added another original touch. The second phase, which has just been completed, adds five "Ateliers", 50m² work spaces that can be made private, with meeting rooms and a kitchen area. Each of the five workshops can accommodate up to 16...

In the midst of the pre-Brexit political imbroglio, London is nonetheless retaining its power to attract business meetings and events. On the contrary, the destination is even benefiting from the first collateral effects of the announced divorce between the United Kingdom and the European Union. This is the main conclusion to be drawn from the new study published on September 4 by...