Paris

Making it easier to get around What changes will the people of Ile-de-France be able to benefit from in the coming years? Élisabeth Borne - While the Paris network is now one of the best meshed in the world, there is still a real need for infrastructure as soon as you move away from the conurbation. The future Grand Paris Express, with 200 km of...

Since when has Hermès been based in Pantin and how did you motivate your employees to cross the ring road? Bernhardt Eichner - We have been based in Pantin since 1992. In the early 1990s, we needed to expand our premises and we found some available land...

Trapped for centuries behind its foliage - the ring road succeeded in the 1950s the fortifications of the Thiers enclosure built in the mid-19th century, themselves modelled on the walls of the fermiers généraux before the Revolution - Paris is beginning to look at its suburbs with new eyes. For some time now, the cities...

Alongside the great classics of business travel and the palaces that are more often than not outside the scope of travel policies, business travellers are increasingly interested in boutique hotels with character. Partly for budgetary reasons, but not only: less formal, attractively themed, they attract the eye and curiosity. Flowering here and there...

The days of long, stuffy business lunches, with a three-piece suit pressed to the body and a tight tie, are long gone. In Paris, where traditions die hard, jeans and trainers have taken over and business is done more informally, but just as effectively. Where are you doing business? In the...

"Many of my current favourites are not far from our offices, in the 11th and 12th arrondissements, like Septime la Cave, a great wine cellar, or Mokonuts. This tiny 18-seat address was originally intended to be just a small coffee shop. But Moko, a former Japanese-American lawyer...

The inconsolable wounds of January and November 2015 won't change a thing: Paris will always be Paris. Intact and yet different. Over the last three years, new architectural emblems, most of them cultural, have made their mark on the urban landscape: the Pathé Foundation designed by Renzo Piano in the 13th arrondissement, the Louis Vuitton Foundation...

Seeing The Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre, The Origin of the World at Orsay or Water Lilies at the Orangerie is bound to give visitors to the capital intense aesthetic pleasure. Yet Paris - is it still possible? - continues to expand its cultural repertoire. In 2015, the Gustave Moreau museum got a facelift, as did the...

So the Bantu warriors have finally given up, as the artistic squat is transformed into a top-of-the-range hotel. Instead of the 77 silhouettes drawn by the artist Kouka on the windows of the new Renaissance hotel, since mid-April we have been seeing business travellers from all over the world, enjoying the...

"Paris loves you": two months to the day after Valentine's Day, the managers of Paris airports are sending an unequivocal declaration of love to travellers from all over the world. This new slogan is accompanied by a new identity for the general public, as Paris Aéroport replaces Aéroports de Paris, while the "ADP Group"...

New representative for Sodexo's Lieux et Marques de Prestige Barely had the renovation of the Etoile Saint-Honoré Business Centre on rue Balzac been completed, and Sodexo is continuing to expand in the meetings and events segment. Its Lieux et Marques de Prestige label now has a new address in Paris, with another business centre in the heart of the...

The International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) has named Paris as the world's leading city for hosting international congresses, for the second year running. How do you explain this success? Cécile Mairaville - The Paris Convention Bureau plays a very active role in promoting the destination and hosting international conferences....

Decorated by Jean-Philippe Nuel like the rest of the Melia Paris La Défense, most of the 369 rooms, in shades of black, ivory and grey punctuated with red, let the outside light in. The large Standard rooms (30 m2) have an unobstructed view of Courbevoie, while the superior categories look out over Paris. The suites have a living room...

They will discover a setting that seems to have come straight out of a 3-D project, an urban planner's dream full of new-generation buildings, large mineral masses and green spaces. "Paris Rive Gauche" is the name given to this major project stretching from the Gare d'Austerlitz to the Paris ring road. Launched in 1994...

Even if, of course, all the purely 'business' ingredients are present. "It's a very accessible city where business travellers can find all the skills and talent they're looking for", continues Carole Zerah. And with good reason: in 2008, no fewer than 440 trade fairs and 900 congresses were held in Paris. The capital is...

Immobile, backward-looking, irreformable... this is the sad portrait of France in 2006 as seen by the bitter prophets of hexagonal decadence. They are quick to forget that behind its noisy nostalgia and its taste for the most vindictive slogans, France also knows how to evolve in silence. And this is even truer for its...

2.3 million square metres of living space spread out - or rather piled up - over 300 hectares, between the city centre and the airport: the Zuidas district, to the south of Amsterdam, is probably one of the most ambitious urban projects in Europe. Better still: Zuidas is no longer a project, it's already a reality. And although it will be a quarter of a century before...