MICE

The Triangle Tower will not be completed until the end of 2026, but it is growing rapidly as each floor becomes smaller. Erected at Porte de Versailles, in the heart of Paris Expo, where it is set to become the new flagship, this €700m project by developer Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is seeing its...

His love of the sea. Georges Pernoud shared his love of the sea with millions of French people through his television programme Thalassa for decades, until his death in 2021. La Rochelle Tourism & Events is paying tribute to this emblematic figure of France's maritime heritage by renaming one of its meeting places, the Forum des...

A future Mecca for business events in the UK. In fact, it already is, as the Hilton Manchester Deansgate boasts almost 2,000 m² of MICE space. But this establishment, which is housed in the Beetham Tower, one of the country's tallest skyscrapers outside London, will soon be changing hands to become a...

Over the past three decades, Thailand has continued to refine its image as an "ideal tourist destination" for travellers. The Kingdom has sold itself as an exotic, welcoming destination offering excellent value for money and a high level of service. Nevertheless, faced with the impression of a degraded tourism experience by many tourists, the...

Following on from the Radisson hotel opened last year and, more recently, the Holiday Inn Express in the new Rives de Vesles district, the hotel industry in Reims is set to continue its internationalisation with the arrival of the first establishment from the Hyatt group. Scheduled to open in August, this will mark the first steps in France for the top-of-the-range brand...

From its sourcing platforms, Cvent looks at the world's top MICE destinations and meeting hotels. With a record $16.5 billion in sourcing activity and tenders managed in 2024 via the Cvent Supplier Network, this key technology provider for MICE is...

"We are a nature and culture destination, with a strong urban identity due to Germany's decentralisation". This description, as told by the Director of ONAT in France, Bénédicte Richer, positions Germany as an excellent alternative for MICE organisers and French business travellers. Béatrice Richer, Director of the Office de...

On the fringes of the IMEX event in Frankfurt, German MICE professionals examined the figures for a market that has overtaken France in the Top 5 of the latest ICCA rankings. The Meeting & Event Barometer, the result of this detailed analysis of business tourism in Germany, is a compilation of data collected over the last...

HOTELS Novotel Saint-Étienne Centre Gare Châteaucreux It's impossible for a business traveller arriving in Saint-Etienne Châteaucreux not to spot this representative of the city's top-of-the-range hotels. Situated just opposite the station, the Novotel, like its more economical cousin the ibis Budget, is part of a building complex that appeared a few years ago.

Who are the main event organisers in Saint-Etienne? Fleurine Buriane (Convention Bureau) (c) Magali Stora Fleurine Buriane (Convention Bureau Saint Etienne) : Federations and large national associations, as well as numerous medical congresses and more regional seminars. In May alone, we hosted three conferences of 500, 700...

Saint-Etienne's image is obviously linked to its 'Verts', its 'cauldron' and the unique fervour of its supporters. And this is true regardless of their team's ups and downs. The lows, like the club's recent descent into Division 2; the highs, like in the days of Larqué, Rocheteau, Revelli and Curkovic in the mid-1970s,...

Of course, there's no sea like in Antibes. Or the champagne vineyards and timber-framed houses of Troyes. But there is a converted industrial past, a contemporary élan and a special warmth. In fact, Saint-Etienne often joins these two cities on the list of convention destinations in France. And so...

Accor is making progress in a major area of MICE: online reservations for meetings and events. The group has just announced the forthcoming launch of a platform that will give organisers access to 2.5 million m² of event space and over 800,000 rooms worldwide. Bringing together the offerings of the 5600 hotels...

From 20 to 22 May, all eyes in the MICE and business travel sectors will once again be on IMEX Frankfurt. All the big names in business tourism will be at Messe Frankfurt. Once again this year, the promise of ambitious business meetings. Proof, if proof were needed, of the prospects opening up for...

Radisson is reaffirming its leading role in hotel development in Africa. With 8 new hotels inaugurated last year, providing 1,540 new rooms, the group is just ahead of Marriott - 1,524 rooms for 11 establishments - and Accor - 7 hotels for 1,354 rooms - in terms of the number of hotels to be opened by 2024, according to an analysis by...

It will cost some 1.204 million euros (2.09 million Australian dollars) to bring ICC Sydney into a new era. The modernisation plan was unveiled on Wednesday 14 May by the conference centre's management. The investment will focus on the MICE centre's technological offering: audiovisual equipment, LED screens and other lighting systems....

24/7 reception. This service is customary in four-star hotels, but it will be even more essential for this future establishment. The first stone was laid on 28 April this year, and the hotel will stand on the edge of a circuit where the cars go twice round the clock, that of the...

"Providing a spectacular space for meetings, conferences and special events for the Harvard community and beyond" is the ambition of the David Rubenstein Treehouse project. This new MICE hub is due to take up residence at Harvard next autumn, just under three years after the announcement of the new infrastructure....

With its strong appeal to tourists from all over the world, a powerful economic fabric to support business travel, and major events organised at the RAI congress centre, is Amsterdam a blessed destination for the hotel industry? Gozde Eren - Being at the helm of Amsterdam's Hyatt hotels makes me a lucky person indeed....

The city is full. When it comes to overtourism, Amsterdam is, along with Venice, one of the first examples to come to mind, sharing with the Serenissima the constrained setting of its Instagrammable canals. The tourism industry won't complain, with growth of 4% year on year since...