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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...

After gaining experience as a taxi driver in Zurich, then proving itself in Russia and the UK on the high-end VTC market, Wheely has chosen its next business destination: Paris. The platform, founded in 2010 by Anton Chirkunov, has raised $15 million in funding, which will enable it to...

Coworking continues to spread its web in France. Shortly after the opening of Spaces in La Défense, Morning Coworking at the top of the Montparnasse Tower and on rue de Courcelles in the 17th arrondissement, and Mama Works in Lille, the market for shared workspaces has seen the arrival of two...

Taxis and VTCs are still feeling their way around the destination. But the address should soon become a firm fixture in their repertoires, as well as those of business travellers. Since 24 February, the Melia INNSiDE Paris CDG hotel has been welcoming its first travellers, "at the foot of the runways", or almost. The contrast between the tranquillity of the 266...

Open since the beginning of January 2019 and officially inaugurated on 21 March, the size of the Spaces La Défense centre symbolises the lofty ambitions of both the coworking brand and its parent company, the International Workplace Group (IWG). With a surface area of 18,000 sq m - including 2,000 sq m dedicated to the business club -...

According to Régis Lacote, Director of the Orly hub, the transformation of Orly Sud and Orly Ouest into Orly 1, 2, 3 and 4, effective since 19 March, in fact corresponds to the creation of a single entity, the epicentre of which is the new "Orly 3" connecting terminal, which for the first time creates a physical link between the...

And that's three! Following on from Kwerk Haussmann and Kwerk Bienfaisance, the Wellworking specialist will once again be targeting the 8th arrondissement of Paris with the inauguration of a new site on rue de Courcelles. Kwerk Saint-Honoré is due to open its doors in May 2020. This fifth space will bring Kwerk's total surface area to over...

The Peninsula Paris, the brand's tenth hotel, will celebrate its fifth anniversary in August. How is the hotel positioning itself on the Paris hotel scene? Anne Dugenetay - The hotel has found its place in the luxury hotel industry, even if its beginnings were thwarted by the attacks that hit Paris in 2015. When...

Over and above the competition between two of the world's most visited destinations, and despite all the uncertainties surrounding Brexit, Paris and London have decided to make common cause. The two tourist boards recently signed an agreement enabling them to offer "two-in-one incentive trips", targeting North American buyers in particular. The...

Breaking down barriers and making the lobby a real place to live: this desire, which is increasingly shared by hoteliers, has been given concrete expression within the Pullman brand through The Junction concept. First introduced last year at the Pullman Bangkok King Power, it is now being offered for the first time in Europe at the Pullman Paris Centre-Bercy and...

And yet the French hotel industry is still going strong. In a turbulent social climate, it even broke records in 2018. Strikes at SNCF and Air France in the spring, the yellow waistcoat movement at the end of the year: all these factors did not prevent the industry from posting clear growth in revenue per room (+6.4 1TP3Q) according to the...

What are the highlights of your new establishment, the Deskopolitan Paris Voltaire, which will open next spring? Paul Chevrillon - We're going to be offering a much wider range of services than at our first site, in the 10th arrondissement. This 1,400 m² facility was inaugurated just over two years ago...

Is the CDG Express finally on the right track? "The concession contract will be signed in the next few days", assures Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne in an interview with Le Parisien, confirming the government's desire to see the project for a direct link between Roissy airport and Paris, led by the...