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Qatar Airways has resumed its direct flights between Nice and its hub, Doha's Hamad International Airport. May 9 marked the airline's return to the Côte d'Azur airport after a three-year interruption. Qatar Airways now offers four weekly flights on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays by Boeing 787-8. The aircraft has a...

Last month at ITB Berlin, Qatar Airways announced the opening of seven new routes, including 3 in France. Nice-Doha will be the first route to return to the network. It will resume on 9 May with four weekly flights on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Flights depart from Nice-Côte d'Azur at 4pm and arrive...

What weight does a convention centre have in the eyes of the electorate when compared with promises to extend the Promenade du Paillon, the green corridor that runs through Nice? At least, that's the choice made by Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice and President of the Metropolitan Council, who has launched work to demolish the Palais des Congrès...

Since 26 March, Norse Atlantic has officially been a new option for business travellers on the Paris-New York route. Despite a turbulent social climate, with repeated strikes in France, the UK and Germany, Norse Atlantic has officially celebrated its first flight between Paris-CDG and JFK....

The announcement was made official on 31 January by the Metropolitan Council. Rouen is to get a Convention Centre by 2030-2031. The "Lapeyre" site has been chosen as the location for this new infrastructure, which will contribute to the transformation of the west of Rouen. It will include an amphitheatre with a capacity of 1,000 seats,...

Nice airport is on a roll at the start of 2023. While Emirates has just announced the return of its star aircraft to the Côte d'Azur, the A380, Delta is preparing its return to the Nice-Atlanta route. Flights will resume on 13 May, and will be operated in collaboration with Air France, KLM and Virgin Atlantic....

It seems that the Airbus A380 has an above-average capacity for resilience... Regularly described as an endangered species, promised to be scrapped, the super-jumbo is now used to comebacks. Etihad recently announced the return to service of four A380s next summer. And now it's Emirates' turn...

One hundred years old. The Centaurus Group, owner of the upmarket Maison Albar boutique hotels, is celebrating this venerable age with a show of its full vigour. Founded in 1923 by a family who came up from the Aveyron to open their first hotel in Paris - and now in its fourth generation at the helm with Céline...

What are the Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur Group's priorities for 2023? What objectives in terms of passenger traffic or airlines present in Nice? Franck Goldnadel - The Group's priority is to support the upturn in air traffic at all our hubs, while taking environmental issues into account. The...

Paris/Ile de France Maison Delano Paris (February) American-born luxury lifestyle brand Delano, now part of the Accor group, is coming to Paris. To mark the occasion, an intimate version of its concept, called Maison Delano, will be opening early this year on rue d'Anjou, in the 8th arrondissement. The establishment revisits a former...

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...

The Radisson group is swapping one of its brands for another at Nice airport. The former Park Inn, positioned in the mid-range segment, has become a Radisson hotel after a major refurbishment to raise the level of its offering and adapt the site to sustainable standards, with the establishment hoping soon to receive a Green Key label....

Nice-Côte d'Azur airport is facing a veritable festival of new and reopened routes this winter. The programme, which includes 22 new routes, confirms the upward trend at France's second-largest airport. In fact, over the first ten months of 2022, Nice welcomed 10.57 million...

Mama Shelter's expansion in France will continue over the coming months. From its current eight hotels, the brand created by Serge Trigano and now owned by Accor should have eleven by summer 2024. Recently, the lifestyle brand gave a number of details about its arrival in Rennes next March, with a 119-room hotel...

Copenhagen will thus become the fortieth destination served by easyJet from Nice Côte d'Azur Airport. The airline made the new route official on Wednesday, and it is expected to be available in summer 2023. On the occasion, easyJet stressed that this year it was celebrating the tenth anniversary of its Nice base, and the progress made since its arrival on the Côte d'Azur.

With empty stands outside matches and VIP areas unoccupied for many days of the year, the major stadiums have extended their primary role of hosting sporting events and concerts to include incentives and corporate seminars, in order to make the most of their space. The Matmut Atlantique in Bordeaux, Groupama Stadium in Lyon and...

The project to extend Terminal 2 at Nice airport was presented in 2018. At the time, the traffic outlook remained positive, as the Covid crisis had not passed. By 2019, Nice's two terminals had almost reached saturation point, with 14.5 million passengers. Theoretical capacity is set at...

Nice airport's strategy paid off during the Covid crisis. At a time when staff were being made redundant at many of Europe's major airports, Nice did its utmost to retain its employees. With some success: "Right from the start of the crisis, airport management signed a partial activity agreement...

The French Best Western network is offering a new hotel just a few minutes from Porte de Versailles and the exhibition centre, as well as the Palais des Arts et des Congrès in Issy-les-Moulineaux. In fact, it is in this town near Paris that the hotel is located, at 11 bis Avenue Jean Jaures, offering business travellers...

The range of services between Nice and the Middle East continues to expand. Following on from Emirates, Etihad and Gulf Air, Kuwait Airways will be flying to Nice from 15 June. The carrier will serve Nice twice a week every Wednesday and Sunday. [link-block prefix="Also to be read:" post="122119"] Nice is one of a series of...