MICE

After paying tribute to the famous host of the Thalassa show, Georges Pernoud, for renaming his renovated conference center last year, La Rochelle Tourism & Events honors another figure to symbolize the evolution of its MICE offering: Marie-Josèphe Guillou. A local personality who dedicated her entire life – and the…

What if your next conference took place in an old Art Nouveau synagogue? In Sankt Pölten, the regional capital of the Land of Lower Austria, less than 30 minutes by train from Vienna, the old synagogue, damaged during the Kristallnacht in 1938, was Aryanized later and then returned to Jewish worship in 1945,...

The Radisson group is starting to specialize in «green» and urban hospitality, from golf resorts near major metropolises. After the opening last year of the Radisson Collection The National in Brussels - a luxury hotel with views of the 18-hole course of the National Golf Brussels with 150 rooms and a restaurant - the Radisson brand is now expanding its presence in the city.

Crowne Plaza is moving in to Disneyland Paris. This move was in the works since the announcement a year ago of the reopening of Radisson Blu Paris Marne-la-Vallée and the renovation of the hotel before officially joining the portfolio of the business-oriented brand of IHG. While the British group had also…

Make it three for Helsinki. Since 2024, Helsinki has claimed the top spot in the GDS-Index, the podium of which has remained unchanged for three years, with the Finnish capital followed by Gothenburg and Copenhagen. However, behind this stable podium, the rankings are shifting. Aarhus has moved from 7th to 4th place, while Sydney (7th) and Montreal (9th)…

MGallery is getting ready to make its grand debut in New York. Accor's luxury boutique hotel brand has cemented its presence in the city by announcing the upcoming addition of the Ink 48 hotel to its collection, which will be progressively refurbished to incorporate MGallery's codes and join the brand's network in...

Utopia will be the major new attraction of 2028 at Futuroscope. Expected in December 2027, the third «in-house» hotel will have a strong MICE focus, as the Vienne amusement park has decided to accelerate in this segment. Featuring 245 rooms, the establishment will indeed house a seminar centre comprising a 200-seat amphitheatre and...

A staple of the business travel ecosystem and far beyond, AI has logically focused the attention of participants and speakers during the first two days of IFTM Top Resa. The Meetings & Events barometer unveiled today by Kactus is no exception to the rule. Reflecting major market trends, and based on data from...

Rejolt is also shifting to AI mode, with the launch of its new agentic platform, named Event Intelligence, unveiled on 15 September at the IFTM exhibition. This new agentic platform dedicated to corporate events is designed to cover the entire operational chain, from sourcing to VAT recovery. That represents a comprehensive approach that breaks with...

To organise a seminar, a convention, a product launch or an incentive trip, companies today are looking for much more than just a meeting venue. They want a destination that is easy to get to, smooth logistics, quality infrastructure and, above all, an experience capable of bringing participants together. In this respect, Nice Côte d'Azur ticks all the...

Vendée in general, and Les Sables-d'Olonne in particular, are recognised today as a prime destination for hosting corporate events. There are numerous reasons for this, ranging from TGV accessibility, its hotel offering and facilities dedicated to supporting local tourism operators, to its gastronomy, economic fabric, and so on.

Just 2 hours and 20 minutes from Paris by plane, the five-star hotel La Badira — «as luminous as the full moon» in Arabic — is the MICE destination to discover in Tunisia. Positioned as «adults only» and a member since its opening in 2015 of The Leading Hotels of the World chain, the property captivates from the moment you arrive with...

For once, there was no need to wait for those delays that new hotels are accustomed to. Initially announced for the end of 2026, the Radisson Blu Medlock Hotel, Manchester has just opened its doors, offering a prestigious location for both football fans and business travellers visiting the metropolis...

A few weeks after seeing the return to business of its historic hotel in Turkey - the Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus, opened in 1955 and completely redesigned after three years of work - the Hilton group crossed a symbolic threshold during the month of August: that of its 100th hotel in the country. An establishment...

On 2nd September, the Paris Ile-de-France CCI published the 2026 edition of its activity report on the exhibition and convention centres in the Greater Paris region. The figures show an acceleration across almost all indicators in a region that remains the leading business infrastructure offering in Europe, with 24 sites and nearly 700,000 m² of floor space…

The Hyatt group intends to establish itself even more firmly with business travellers passing through Berlin. Not that the American hotelier has lacked appeal until now, with the Grand Hyatt Berlin a stone's throw from Potsdamer Platz, its ballroom capable of accommodating 850 people and its 9 meeting rooms. All this adding to others...

The Minor group continues to strengthen its presence in both Europe and the Middle East. Although its opening is a long way off – slated for 2030 – the NH Riyadh Prime Square Hotel will notably complement the group's offering in Saudi Arabia with a 121-room and suite hotel featuring a business centre and meeting spaces, in…

Leonardo Hotels has just doubled its presence in France in one fell swoop. With just one opening! Already present in Paris since the 2024 acquisition of the Hôtel Prelude Opera, which has become the Leonardo Boutique Hotel Paris Opera, the hotel group has just set up shop on the shores of Lake Geneva with its takeover on August 1st…

As almost all professional events take an annual summer break, it's time for UNIMEV, the French Union of Event Industry Professionals, to take stock. Its new Observatory, unveiled on 29 July, reviews the sector's results for the second quarter and, more broadly, since the beginning of the year. A few days later…

"Remarkable": this is how the Paris Île-de-France Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) describes the performance of Parisian trade shows in the second quarter. It must be said that the traditional barometer dedicated to this MICE activity shows in fact clearly rising results, even though the first quarter had already proven to be largely successful. In the 2nd quarter...