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Revolutionising the business hotel industry: since its launch in Amsterdam in 2016, the Zoku brand has set itself the ambition of offering "global nomads" places that are just like them. With its ingenious lofts and lively living spaces, it is targeting all those creative business travellers who have taken up hybrid working, staying here for a few days, there...

With another day of general protests against pension reform - the tenth - scheduled for Thursday 6 April, business travel in France is likely to be disrupted throughout the week. Not least in the skies, where the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has asked airlines to...

"Why did they kill Jaurès? Like Jacques Brel, guests at CitizenM Paris Opéra may well ask themselves this question as they pass the infamous Bistrot du Croissant on the corner of their hotel. Or maybe they won't be asking themselves the same question at all. Long gone are the days when the great were murdered...

Delano, Mondrian: both of these brands play on the aura of their original hotels, pioneers in the 1990s of what was not yet called the lifestyle hotel industry. The Delano, in Miami South Beach, and the Mondrian, in West Hollywood near Los Angles, were two urban resorts that bore the...

Good news for Paris metro users: RATP operations should be running normally - on the whole - on 24 March. The signs are green for the metro, bus and tram networks. Only RER lines A and B will be affected on Friday 24 March. RATP expects 3...

Kopster Paris Ouest Colombes has a clean, simple design, decorated with a zebra as its common theme, and a recognisable silhouette with a facade that turns blue, pink or purple depending on where you look. The aim of Kopster Paris Ouest Colombes is to showcase its lifestyle spirit and its range of products tailored to...

The Radisson Individuals hotel collection has found its first address in the Paris region, in Clichy. Located not far from Clichy-Levallois station, which is linked to Saint-Lazare station, the YAC Paris Clichy hotel is part of a predominantly business environment, with the headquarters of several major companies nearby, including L'Oréal, Amazon France, Bic and Monoprix....

RATP expects a gradual improvement on 8 March and 9 March. However, the Paris metro will continue to experience major disruption on Wednesday. The automatic lines will be spared, with normal traffic on lines 1 and 14 and near-normal traffic on line 4. Almost all other metro lines will be running...

EasyHotel is continuing its expansion in France with a new establishment just outside Paris, in Aubervilliers. The budget chain, which shares the orange livery of the famous airline but has separate destinies, had already landed in Nice in 2019, near the Palais des Congrès, and then at Paris-CDG airport last year. In...

Business at all Paris Region trade fairs from 2019 to 2022 (Source: CCI Paris Île-de-France) The CCI Paris Île-de-France has published a mixed picture in its barometer of business at Paris Region trade fairs in 2022. It all depends on the yardstick used to measure the recovery from the previous year. Pointing to...

The major companies based in the La Défense district have only a few months to wait before they find a convention and exhibition centre as close as possible to their offices, at the Cnit. This is where they used to hold their annual conventions and New Year's presentations. Closed since June 2015, the...

Launched by Accor three years ago, the Tribe lifestyle brand is continuing to expand by adding a tenth hotel to its offering, the third in the Paris region. After Les Batignolles in 2020 and La Défense last year, a new Tribe opened in Saint-Ouen at the end of January. The hotel's surroundings reflect the...

The Ascott group is completing its conquest of Paris's beautiful districts by preparing to set up its luxurious The Crest Collection on the Left Bank, quai des Grands Augustins. Following on from La Clef Louvre, La Clef Tour Eiffel and La Clef Champs-Élysées, by 2026 the world leader in extended-stay hotels will be offering a fourth five-star address in the...

Between two days of strike action - the one on 19 January and the next expected on 31 January - another source of disruption has been complicating passenger travel since 24 January. In this case, a fire on electrical cables, apparently deliberate. As a result, traffic at Gare de l'Est was...

Business travellers know Hertz for individual car hire. But the rental company's solutions also extend to larger-scale partnerships. Since 2016, Hertz has partnered with Uber to offer the platform's drivers preferential rates for weekly rentals including insurance and basic maintenance...

A tweet from Fnaut Ile-de-France, the transport users' association, has once again put the spotlight on the Orly TGV station project. Alain Krakovitch, Director of TGV-Intercités, also "liked" the tweet. Unlike previous projects, which placed the station as close as possible to or even underneath the southern Paris airport,...

How did 2022 end, and how is 2023 shaping up? Marta Gomes - There has been a very strong upturn in the number of face-to-face events, with performances that exceeded our expectations. Attendance figures are also good. The year 2023 seems to be off to a good start on a number of counts, but we remain...

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...

In an interview with American magazine Women's Wear Daily, luxury brand Louis Vuitton announced its desire to open a hotel under its own name in Paris. Michael Burke, the CEO of the French luxury brand, told the publication of his plans to transform the offices of the Louis Vuitton headquarters...

Often criticised, line 13 is about to get a facelift. RATP made it official on Friday, officially kicking off the process of automating the line. This will be completed by 2035. Between now and then, RATP will be modernising the line with the arrival of new-generation MF19 trains from mid-2027. In the meantime...