Paris

How would you sum up the history of the Sofitel Paris Baltimore, and what makes it an atypical establishment on the Paris hotel scene? Franck Poncey - The Sofitel Paris-Baltimore is first and foremost a building with a real history, which we remind all our guests of. It was built in 1892 by the architect Paul Lorin,...

With a good twenty hotels added in the first quarter and another batch of openings in the second, the Accor group is continuing to strengthen its presence in its domestic market. Widely the leader in its field, the group added several establishments in the first half of the year, under its Handwritten Collection, Mercure and greet brands in particular. And their networks have...

High-speed development before a phase of consolidation in the years to come: Trenitalia has taken stock of a year 2025 full of new developments for the Italian company. Celebrating four years on the French railways this month, Trenitalia's first event in April was the reopening of the...

"We never imagined we'd get so many business travellers": Clément Gohin, General Manager of Les Lumières à Versailles, is almost surprised by his hotel's appeal to corporate clients. In fact, as almost the closest neighbour to the Château, and rivalling the Palais des Congrès on the other side of the...

The Paris-Lyon line, SNCF's most profitable, continues to whet appetites. After Trenitalia at the end of 2021, and while waiting for Renfe's AVEs still blocked at Lyon Part-Dieu, a newcomer has come out of the woodwork, Claret, following the favourable opinion issued on 1 December by the French Transport Regulation Authority (ART). This...

One of the great successes of the Paris Olympic Games was the recognition of disability issues. No doubt the legacy of the Olympic Games had something to do with the entry into force on 1 December of a reform decreeing that wheelchairs would be fully covered by the French social security system, with no additional costs. And if transport...

SNCF is not just focusing on the Mediterranean, one of its most profitable routes. The Atlantic route is also receiving a great deal of attention in the run-up to the expected launch of new rail competitors with Le Train theoretically in 2027 and Velvet in 2028. The national company is preparing for the arrival of these possible challengers by...

Île-de-France Mobilités will be spending €3.8 billion in 2026 to improve rail transport in the Ile-de-France region, in conjunction with RATP, Transilien SNCF Voyageurs, SNCF Réseau and SNCF Gares & Connexions. In a press release, the organisation explains that "the maintenance and modernisation of rail transport infrastructure is an absolute priority in order to guarantee...

The Hilton Group continues to expand in France. With a portfolio that has almost doubled in just five years, fuelled in particular by the recent arrival of its new premium budget brand Spark in Lyon, the American hotelier currently offers 14 hotels in Paris and the Île-de-France region. And soon one more with the DoubleTree by Hilton Paris Boulogne. The opening of...

Of course, the Minor group, in particular with its Anantara luxury brand, always focuses on beautiful resorts in enchanting locations. Next year, new Anantara resorts will appear in the ski area of snow-capped Xiling Mountain in China's Sichuan province, as well as in the Kafue National Park in Zambia,...

The countdown is on. SNCF has just opened bookings for its new Optimum class, which business travellers will be able to discover on 8 January 2026 on all trains departing from or arriving in Paris. As a reminder, this class will replace the current Business 1ère, with the new name having less of a "Pro" connotation...

As it does every quarter, the Paris Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI Paris Île-de-France) takes stock of the dynamic trade fair scene in the Paris Region, examining the 24 main exhibition venues. The new barometer, published this week, shows mixed results. The main reason for this is that, unlike the first two quarters, the level of activity is lower than it was before the health crisis. Type of...

The birth announcement is beginning to take shape for the new member of the Trigano family. A date and a location have been announced for the appearance of the first of its Oh Baby hotels: at the end of 2027 on the outskirts of Paris, near Porte de Saint-Ouen. Some fifteen years after launching the Oh Baby...

The location remains unchanged, just a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Élysées. Neither has its Haussmann-style façade, which dates back to the early 20th century. Inside, however, a sophisticated new décor awaits guests of the former NH Paris Champs-Elysées. The hotel has just been upgraded to NH...

While the SNCF will be stopping the Paris-Berlin/Vienna service launched just two years ago in mid-December due to the end of the €8m-a-year government subsidy, the Paris-Berlin route will be taken over by European Sleeper from 26 March 2026, a suspension of just over three years...

Forever the first. After setting up its flexible workspaces in a number of major regional cities, starting with Marseille, followed by Aix, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Sophia Antipolis and Toulouse, Newton Offices is adding its first site in the Paris region, in Clichy, to its list of addresses. "Today is a magic trick," says Newton Offices' CEO,...

The Capella Bangkok last year, the Rosewood Hong Kong in first place this year: the Asian hotel industry has the honours in the 50 Best Hotels of the World. Presented in London on 30 October, the third edition of this ranking recognising the best hotels in the world gives pride of place to Asia, with 20 of the world's best hotels...

To live happily, let's live hidden. This is the policy of certain VIP business travellers - bosses, senior executives or fashion and design professionals - who prefer the intimacy of small hotels with character to the big names in luxury, Four Seasons, Mandarin and the like. Addresses that may have less status, but which rival each other in excellence...

This is symbolic of the place held by France in the Radisson Group's growth strategy. To begin the video presentation of its forthcoming openings, Paris takes pride of place with, to start with, the future Banke Opera Paris hotel, part of the Radisson Collection, whose renovation is due for completion in...

Smartwings, both a spin-off and parent company of the former CSA, is finally taking over from the defunct Czech national airline. The airline, which has mainly been confined to leisure routes, is now boosting its network to the main European cities from Prague. It is inaugurating 7 new stopovers for its new winter flight programme to...