Paris
Meet Cécile Mairaville, Director of Conventions at the Tourist Office and...
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....
Melia Paris La Défense: rooms with a view
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...
Paris Rive Gauche - Travelling through a business district in the making
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...
Train: Easy Paris
Today, it is perfectly feasible for a businessman working in Strasbourg, Rennes, Lille or even Marseille to make a return trip to the capital for a simple lunch. Year after year, high-speed rail has succeeded in transforming the "French desert" into Paris's "outer ring road". A real revolution, as illustrated by...
Abroad: Paris' image shaken up
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...
Paris & Ile-de-France: the strength of the banks of the Seine
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...
Amsterdam : Zuidas
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...
