Paris

While the strike action on 5 December highlighted the need for third-party spaces to offer an alternative to professionals, two new addresses are launching themselves on the French coworking scene. In Paris, Comet opened its doors on 2 December in La Défense. This is already the fourth such...

Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, which embarked on a ten-year project in 2013 to present itself in all its splendour on the eve of its centenary in 2023, has just completed a project to open up to the city as well as to the latest trends, be they roof terraces, an urban farm or architectural gestures...

As part of the inauguration of the Crowne Plaza Paris République coworking spaces, the IHG Group hotel chain questioned 2,000 French full-time employees about their expectations in terms of flexible working. It turns out that 70% of the employees surveyed "aspire to a wider choice of flexible working environments"...

Don't call it a "VTC platform" any more: Uber has been diversifying for a long time now, with the launch of its famous self-service scooters and bicycles. Today, Uber is even getting on board electric scooters: a first for the American giant, which has chosen to team up with France's Cityscoot, whose vehicles will "soon" be available for booking via...

The launch of the CDG Express, which was due to coincide with the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, has finally been postponed. But business travellers can rest assured that the players in the mobility sector intend to take advantage of the sporting event to make a big splash, and turn the French capital into a laboratory for urban travel....

What characterises the new Okko Hotel at Paris-Est station? Solenne Devys - This ninth hotel is unique in that it is located on platform 1 of the Gare de Paris-Est, which meant that it had to be built to a very high standard. With its 170 rooms, each measuring 18 sq. m, it will enable Okko Hotels to...

Constantly growing and estimated to be worth almost €30 billion in France in 2019, the business travel sector meets every year at IFTM TOP RESA, which has become a key market place for bringing together its players and working on its major challenges. To keep pace with this growth, IFTM TOP RESA is launching a...

As announced at the end of April, Wheely has its eye on the Paris travel market. It's official as of 16 September: the VTC service is making its debut in the capital, having already refined its offering in two other business destinations: London and Moscow. The service will be available...

It's going to be a black day for travellers in Paris and the Ile-de-France region this Friday 13 September. According to forecasts published by RATP, traffic will be disrupted on the vast majority of metro lines. Only the automatic lines (1 and 14) are expected to operate, but with a logical risk of saturation. As for the...

The 40th anniversary celebrations are already a long way off for the organisers of IFTM Top Resa, who are now fine-tuning an ambitious 2019 edition. They plan to welcome no fewer than 35,000 visitors - compared with 34,000 at the previous event - to Hall 1 at Porte de Versailles, and to maintain the event's international momentum,...

After Miami and Montreal, Corsair is continuing its offensive on the North American market. The airline made it official on Tuesday: it will be flying daily to New York from 10 June 2020. Corsair's brand-new Airbus A330-900 NEO, configured in three classes including a new 20-seat Business class, will leave Orly airport at...

Clément Meyer, sales director of Morning Coworking, has set himself the target of "signing up between 30,000 and 50,000 m² per year in the Paris region". With this in mind, the latest announcement from the workspace network adds three new sites to its catalogue. Two Morning Coworking locations are expected to open in the...

La Défense is continuing to diversify its hotel offer, with almost 1,000 new rooms soon to be added to the 2,600 already in existence. As part of its drive to become a true lifestyle centre, the Paris business district is turning to brands with resolutely contemporary concepts. After Citizen M in 2017, it's the turn of...

Next door to the Comédie Française, the Opéra and the museum whose name it bears, the Hôtel du Louvre has been restored to its former elegance after two years closed for renovation. As soon as it joined the Hyatt fold in 2013, this legend of the Paris hotel industry had planned to give itself a new spirit, and...

Five years before the opening ceremony, we may well know the first winners and losers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The CDG Express has been out of the running since the end of May. On the other hand, flying taxis could take advantage of the Olympics to make a spectacular breakthrough. On 18 June, at the...

In Paris, in the heart of the Gare de l'Est, along platform 1, Okko Hotels is inaugurating its ninth 4* establishment. Representing an investment of 30 million euros, the contemporary two-storey building was erected on 220 spring boxes designed to absorb the vibrations of trains and the underground metro...

The CDG Express will therefore not be welcoming the many foreign visitors expected for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Nor will business travellers, who are impatiently awaiting this new link between the capital and its airport... Élisabeth Borne, the French Transport Minister, made it official on 29 May: the project has been postponed until the end of the year...

With two countries in the world's top 3, and thirteen in the top 20, Europe has established itself as a key continent in the congress sector. While the United States is still solidly in first place in the ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association) rankings published last year, the benchmark for the hosting of major events, Germany and the United States are...

How did the partnership between Paris and London on MICE come about? Corinne Menegaux - London and Paris have a lot in common, a lot of shared values. So we met with the London teams and decided to run a joint campaign. We started with a...

This is now the norm, or at least a good habit for the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau and Viparis. The capital has just been voted the number one destination for hosting international congresses by one of the leading authorities in the field: the ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association). Paris has thus regained its first place in the...