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It is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, an architectural marvel that blends the splendours of the Renaissance or Baroque with Art Nouveau, with just enough of a contemporary touch to prove it doesn't live solely in a glorious past. Prague is an incredible laboratory for diverse and refined experiments for event organisers.

"If you don't come to work at WeWork, WeWork will come to you." This is the idea behind the launch of the WeWork Go offering. The coworking space specialist has just unveiled a solution designed directly for professionals on the go. Specifically, these are office pods that WeWork will deploy in...

You are developing several hotel projects in garages or car parks in Paris, via Foncière Concorde – the joint investment company of the Galia and Terrot groups. Why this target? Samuel Gelrubin - Our group has been transforming for several years, with hospitality taking up an increasingly significant part of its business.…

For the seventh year running, Interface MICE has published its survey on business tourism in France. Entitled “The French MICE Market: 2026 Trends, Key Figures & Projections,” it is based on the participation of 90 industry professionals: MICE and communication agency managers, buyers, meeting planners, associations… Six years later…

A transition to automatic writing. In three years, since its launch in January 2023, Accor's Handwritten Collection has reached around forty operational hotels and even more in development, with 45 establishments expected in France and internationally. Among the latter is a second address in Bucharest, the Tacadra hotel, but…

He was one of the elements contributing to the success of the Ocean Summit held in Nice in June 2025. Situated at the end of the Old Port, the OcéaNice conference centre was specifically built by the Lyon-based group GL Events for this United Nations conference. Taken over for management by the Tourist Office and…

A breathtaking view: this is one of the key promises of many hotels around the world. The one offered by this new Hyatt Regency in Canada stands out in this regard, opening onto the exceptional panorama of Niagara Falls. The American group's business-oriented brand is indeed embracing the unique location...

Montenegro is attracting more and more leisure tourists. Is the MICE client also part of the country's tourism strategy? Ana Tripkovic Markovic - This is one of our strategic priorities today. Although Montenegro is recognised by leisure clients, our long-term objective is to make the country a...

"Merde à Vauban". Accor will probably not adopt Léo Ferré's irreverence. Because it is a delightful prison that the French group is preparing for the first address in France of its luxury brand Emblems Collection. In one of these fortifications designed by Louis XIV's chief engineer for...

After the pass of three, the transformation. Minor Hotels made its Paris debut just before the 2024 Olympics with the takeover of three establishments, but the Thai group, which has owned NH Hotels since 2018, has given all these addresses a facelift. Opened under the NH brand, the former...

You recently communicated on a trend: historical sites being redeveloped to host corporate events. Is this really new? Laurent Gabard - No, not really. Personally, I used to work for an operator who, in Lyon with the Hôtel-Dieu, or in Marseille, would seek out iconic heritage sites to turn them into hotels, completely...

Almost every year sees the Eklo group add to its portfolio. After the opening of its Parisian flagship in 2024 in direct proximity to the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre, followed by the expansion of its hotel in Bordeaux in 2025, the budget and eco-friendly chain has just added another major French city to its list of...

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the commercial branch of Polish railways PKP Intercity is bringing Communist Poland back to life with train journeys as they were in the 1980s. It's an idea that could well appeal to incentive event organisers! Travellers who have experienced the People's Republic of Poland,...

The MeM in Rennes is getting a new lease of life, and a new dimension. The events centre, which opened its doors in 2019, has moved a few hundred metres to the east, giving itself a more ambitious, more versatile configuration, inaugurated this week. The Magic Mirrors tent, star of the MeM, remains on the bill. But its...

"The most solid year in the city's history": that's an assessment that, as Toulouse Team celebrates its tenth anniversary, has every reason to be satisfied. If the results unveiled by the city's attraction agency are anything to go by, all the lights are green for the pink city, which has climbed to the top of the...

The Moroccan media are reporting that the Pullman brand will soon be offering a new hotel in Morocco in the fourth quarter. Already present in the country with the Pullman Mazagan Royal Golf & Spa, the Accor group's top-of-the-range brand is heading for Casablanca, again with a golfing bias. The hotel will be...

In this film of the year 2026, in the travel and business tourism category, American presidents have a decided tendency to dominate the credits. Of course, it's hard to compete with Donald Trump for the headliner spot, given the growing number of projects designed to anchor the Trump identity - if that were needed - in the country's history and the everyday lives of...

The way of kings. To make its entry into France, the Hyatt Centric brand has followed in the footsteps of Louis the Pious, Charles X, François I and Louis XIV, by coming to Reims to be crowned king. The embodiment of a relaxed, upmarket contemporary hotel experience, the American group's Hyatt Centric...

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...

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Pierres d'Histoire inaugurated its tenth and largest address to date in the summer of 2024, the Domaine de Richebourg near Houdan in the Yvelines department. True to its principles of safeguarding endangered heritage, this time the accommodation provider has set its sights on an old mill whose...