Paris

The IHG Group is rolling out its hybrid meetings offer in France. The British hotelier presented its "Meet with Confidence" programme last March. The programme is based on five basic principles: cleanliness and security, of course, with check-in/check-out without...

Hilton is expanding its range of brands in Paris with its first Canopy hotel, a lifestyle brand that now has around thirty hotels worldwide. This move comes ahead of the arrival in the summer of another of the American group's brands, the Tapestry by Hilton collection, with the openings of the Belgrand Hôtel Paris Champs Elysées and the Hôtel Camille...

How does a new player like Keeze intend to carve out a place for itself in an increasingly crowded coworking market? Shaun Nelson - Well, we're a fairly new player. The Keeze concept is to offer private 100% spaces, with the distinctive feature of having totally integrated the design, with teams in charge of...

Wojo is further expanding its network with the announcement of a new coworking space. Expected to open in 2022 and billed as a "new flagship" for the Accor group brand, it will be located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, on rue de Calais to be precise. Business customers will find private offices and shared workspaces, as well as a range of other...

Everyone has had the misfortune of seeing their metro tickets demagnetised because they have been exposed to another magnetic source. And, as more and more cards have magnetic strips, this type of incident has become a recurring occurrence. But the end of demagnetised tickets is approaching. The Board of Directors of Île-de-France Mobilités has approved...

Jean Castex made it official on Thursday: since the evening of 19 March, confinement has once again been in force in 16 French departments, in Ile-de-France and Hauts-de-France, as well as in Alpes-Maritimes, Eure and Seine-Maritime. The measure will apply for at least four weeks, "unless positive results are observed in the meantime" ....

A forest in the heart of Europe's leading business district may seem a surprising idea at first glance. But a forest that lends itself to business meetings in a green, high-tech atmosphere - so very much in tune with the times - all under the graceful canopy of the CNIT, makes more sense....

No real surprises on the financial results for French air transport. 2020 has been confirmed as the worst year ever for Air France-KLM. The bi-national tandem suffered a historic loss of 7.1 billion euros. By way of comparison, the biggest loss recorded by the group in the 2009-2010 financial year was "only" 1.6 billion euros....

It's no secret, given the multitude of recent announcements: Accor has made lifestyle and the very high end of the market the spearheads of its development. This strategy is being deployed around the world, but is also taking shape in Paris, where, paradoxically, the French group's luxury offering is...

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...