Paris

Announced for next spring, the arrival in France of Kimpton Hotels, the five-star design hotel of the IHG group, will undoubtedly be one of the key openings in the Paris hotel industry in 2021. In the same way, for example, as the Cheval Blanc, the conversion of the famous Samaritaine into a luxury hotel led by LVMH. Coincidence...

Two years after it was announced with great fanfare at the 2019 Paris Air Show, the flying taxi could take its first steps in the skies over Paris in June 2021. This is the plan set out in the roadmap unveiled on 18 January by the project's instigators, who include the Paris Air Show, the Paris Air Show and the...

The project to modernise the Gare du Nord, presented in the summer of 2018, has since been the subject of several waves of protests. Petitions from local residents, tribunes from architects and urban planners - Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault and Roland Castro among them - against the commercial dominance of this project supported by the SNCF and Ceetrus, a subsidiary of the...

The situation remains difficult for air traffic departing from Paris. So says the ADP Group in its latest traffic analysis. In October, the two Paris hubs of Orly and Roissy-CDG welcomed 2.3 million passengers. This represents a fall in traffic of 75.6 % compared with...

The Hôtel du Louvre reopened in summer 2019 after several years of renovation work. Why such a long renovation? Fanny Guibouret - It was supposed to start in 2014-2015 in order to convert the hotel to our contemporary Andaz brand. But after just a few months of work, we realised that there was a soul in the hotel, that its...

The ADP group, which manages the Paris airports, has revised its traffic forecasts for 2020 downwards. The second wave of the covid pandemic sweeping across Europe is expected to result in a fall in passenger traffic of between 65% and 70% for the whole of 2020. Previous forecasts were still betting...

The curfew imposed in nine French cities is shedding new light on the hotel concept of staycation. This is particularly the case in Paris, where luxury establishments, particularly affected by the absence of international travellers, are turning to local customers to invite them to enjoy their evenings out...

As it celebrates its first birthday next month, the Grand Quartier is coming to the end of a chaotic year, to say the least. The yellow waistcoat movement, the transport strike and now an unprecedented health crisis: the hazing is proving tough for this newcomer to the Paris hotel scene. Fortunately, the new lifestyle spot in the 10th arrondissement...

Updated on 9 October 2020 The events sector is one of the new restrictions announced on 5 October by the Paris Prefecture of Police to limit the spread of the pandemic. "To avoid mass gatherings of people, I have decided to close trade fairs, exhibitions, exhibition centres and...

Announced at the beginning of the summer, the arrival in Paris of Accor's new lifestyle brand, Tribe, has now materialised with the opening of Tribe Paris Batignolles. Its location, in a fast-developing district of the French capital, reflects the contemporary concept of the mid-range brand launched last year in Australia. Innovative design, communal areas...

Announced at the 2019 Paris Air Show, the project for flying taxis in Paris is beginning to take shape with the forthcoming introduction of a full-scale test area at the Pontoise - Cormeilles-en-Vexin airfield. The three parties involved in this initiative - the Île-de-France Region, the ADP Group and RATP - intend to...

Ryanair will open a new base at Paris-Beauvais on 3 December. The ultra-low-cost carrier will base two aircraft there. The total cost of the investment is €175 million. Ryanair will use the opportunity to launch two new destinations, Paphos and Manchester. Both cities will be linked to Beauvais by two weekly frequencies....

Marcel is extending its footprint in green mobility by launching a range of electric scooters with drivers. The VTC operator, founded in 2014, has teamed up with Felix Citybird, which operates motorbike taxis in Paris and its inner suburbs, to develop this e-scooter offering integrated into its app. In practice, the range comprises...

Paris's top-of-the-range hotels are back in business after months of closure. While some hotels took the gamble of reopening their doors at the start of the summer, such as the Hôtel Fauchon on 1 July and the Hilton Opéra on 10 July, most of the four and five-star establishments kept their doors open...

Air France is gaining momentum at Orly by resuming services to Nice as well as Biarritz and Montpellier. On the latter two routes, however, it will have to rely on the return of EasyJet. This August, EasyJet is launching a regular service between Paris airport and Biarritz and Montpellier. The decision...

Plexiglas protecting the reception area, masked staff, gloves for those carrying luggage: there's nothing very glamorous about the sanitary measures needed to combat the current pandemic, nor are they in line with luxury hotel standards. "It's a bit the antithesis of our hospitality business. And yet, if...

It was one of the sectors most rapidly paralysed by the health crisis, and it will be one of the very last to be able to resume its activity: the events industry will finally be back in action on 1 September, as the National Defence and Security Council recently made official. Viparis is Europe's leading conference and trade show host...

Now that the recovery has begun, is the upturn in activity noticeable in the La Défense district? Franck Boucher - The return is gradual, but things are starting to move. We can see it in the figures for people leaving the transport network, but also in the number of people visiting the shops and the restaurant terraces. The Cœur Défense building,...

When will the capital be holding another trade fair? This is the big question that prompted the managers of the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau (OTCP) to carry out a survey. Its first Barometer on the outlook for business tourism in Paris targeted seven priority markets, namely the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Italy and the United States.

In these particularly difficult times for the tourism and events sectors, let's start with some good news. Paris has retained its top spot in the ICCA rankings, with 237 revolving congresses hosted in 2019. Pablo Nakhle Cerruti - We're obviously very pleased that Paris is at the top of this ranking. It's worth noting...