Paris

Dolce by Wyndham, the American group's MICE brand, is to make a comeback in the Paris region. Long present in Chantilly, it disappeared when its hotel was transferred to the Accor group's Mercure brand. But it is preparing to reappear from next March, no longer in the north of the capital, but in...

A direct metro link to Paris-CDG from your office at La Défense is a promise that should be of interest to more than one business traveller... On 22 November, Valérie Pécresse's announcement made it even more concrete. On Wednesday, the Chairwoman of the Île-de-France Region and Île-de-France Mobilités unveiled the project for the...

The decision was expected. Trenitalia has announced its intention to operate 5 daily return trips between Paris and Lyon from 10 December, compared with the current three. This refocusing on this strategic route had been planned ever since the landslide in the Maurienne valley on August 27 interrupted services to Turin, the capital of...

The Minor Hotels group will soon be making its debut in Paris. The Thai hotelier, which has more than 530 hotels worldwide, thanks in particular to its 2018 acquisition of the Spanish group NH Hotels, has announced that it will open three hotels in the French capital in the first quarter of 2024. This development is the result of a partnership...

The result of the transformation of a former Holiday Inn, voco Paris Porte de Clichy opened its doors in September 2023. Redesigned by the architect Oscar Lucien Ono and his Maison 20, it features a restaurant concept - Romcoco - created by Paris Society Consulting, as well as 11 meeting rooms and a meeting room...

JetBlue won't be waiting for the first anniversary of its Paris-New York route to ramp up its services at CDG, a sign that French travellers are already looking forward to this new transatlantic experience. On 20 June, a second daily flight between JFK and CDG will give even more substance to the airline's programme, and...

On 20 October, Andreas Matthä, CEO of Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), presented the group's 2024 rail link programme. The programme officially begins on 10 December. "The ÖBB is one of Europe's forerunners in night-time services, and we are going to continue to develop this leading position. In terms of...

The news came on Wednesday, in a completely official statement from the airline: Air France will indeed be leaving Orly. The timetable drawn up by Air France management has made 2026 the pivotal year for turning this page in history. By this date, the airline plans to operate all its flights...

The Domaine de la Reine Margot is set in a relatively rare natural environment so close to Paris. It is almost entirely green, yet with a breathtaking view of the Eiffel Tower just a few leagues away as the crow flies. Located in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, just a five-minute walk from the metro station and almost as close by car to...

Embodying a new generation of urban residences, Edgar Suites is continuing to expand in the Paris region. After transforming the former headquarters of the Paris Bar Association - the Hôtel de la Porte, dating back to the 17th century - into a lifestyle aparthotel last year, this group founded in 2016 has just added a new address in the Abesses district. In...

The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau has just unveiled a study packed with information. The Managing Director of Paris je t'aime makes the first observation in her introduction: "2022 marks a return to a situation close to normal for conventions in the Paris Region", Corinne Menegaux sums up. The figures are...

It was a hard blow. Just as Trenitalia was getting off the ground in France, landslides on 27 August in the Maurienne valley forced the Italian company to suspend its two daily Paris-Milan rotations. And a return to normal operations is not expected before June 2024, by which time the thousands of...

Updated on 11 October at 2pm Ranked fifth in the GDS-Index last year, Bordeaux is back where it was in 2021, in ninth place. A disappointment? Not necessarily, as Bordeaux's score has risen from 85.10 to 87.10, reflecting the city's growing commitment to a sustainable tourism strategy...

In addition to the sharp rise in hotel rates in Paris, should business travellers expect a new tax hike in the near future? As part of an agreement between the French government and Île-de-France Mobilités on the financing of the Paris region's transport system for the period 2024-2031, the taxe de séjour...

The autumn-winter collection for the Paris hotel industry began its runway show in mid-September with the opening of Le Grand Mazarin, Maisons Pariente's first showcase in the capital. Vintage furniture, works of art galore, the very best in French craftsmanship and, to orchestrate it all, a benchmark, the designer Martin Brudnizki, who combines his passion for...

The capital's biggest club, with a Jean Bouin stadium refurbished just ten years ago under the leadership of Rudy Ricciotti, in a prestigious and strategic geographical area: on paper, Stade Français Paris has solid arguments to play the leading roles on the pitch...

Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), the Italian state-owned rail operator, is planning to launch a high-speed line linking a large part of Europe. Initially, this would be on the same route as Thalys/Eurostar, Paris/Brussels/Amsterdam. With the eventual possibility of integrating a service to both Barcelona and Berlin....

Marguerite de Valois - the famous Queen Margot, made famous as much by history and her marriage to Henri IV as by being played by Isabelle Adjani - took refuge here to escape the plague raging in Paris. Situated in the hills above Issy-les-Moulineaux, the site was long used as a monastery, housing a convent for centuries...

What if SNCF and SNCB launched a remake of IZY? Launched in 2016, Thalys' low-cost subsidiary disappeared from the radar last summer after six years of service between Paris and Brussels. The project unveiled on 18 July by the Franco-Belgian duo is reminiscent of this intermediate positioning: a...

Exhibitors and visitors from abroad are back at Paris Region and French trade shows, or will be in the near future. This is the good news to come out of a study published on Monday 26 June 2023 on the "new behaviour of international business customers at French trade fairs". The survey was conducted by the "Copil Congrès...