Paris

For a first truly 'normal' year after the disruption caused by the pandemic, and then the effect of the Olympic Games in 2025, the test has been a success overall for the French hotel industry. The results for 2025 were encouraging, with growth in RevPAR (i.e. accommodation sales) of 2% according to figures presented by In Extenso Tourisme Culture...

One - Milan Central Station - is used to seeing travellers pass through, the other - the BHV - Parisian shopaholics. But the two have just set themselves a common future, that of adding a touch of hospitality within their walls. Although no official announcement has been made, the Parisian department stores' could...

Business travellers and, above all, leisure passengers who have decided to take advantage of the 1 May bank holiday to travel by TGV via Gare de Lyon may be in for a bit of a disappointment. SNCF Réseau has just announced the closure of the Paris station for this traditionally busy weekend. No Transilien or TGV trains...

The SNCF operates 11 Grand Voyageur lounges in France, which are one of the key elements of its commercial offering for business travellers. They are regularly updated and even extended. This will once again be the case for the Paris lounge at Gare de Lyon, the busiest...

Always in transit between two brands. This is a regular occurrence for hotels, and the former Pullman Paris CDG is no exception. Opened in 2015, the hotel has just been rebranded as Radisson Blu, according to the wishes of its owner, property investor Covivio. "The repositioning programme and the change of brand name will help to improve the hotel's performance...

Updated on 2/02 at 10:30 Paris Banke Opéra Paris, A Radisson Collection Hotel (autumn) While continuing with its plans to move into rue de Rivoli, the Radisson Collection brand will be opening its first hotel in Paris this year, a stone's throw from the Opera and Galeries Lafayette. And it's all thanks to a choice acquisition: the...

Alice Mafaity, who now oversees the 13 Hyatt hotels in France as Vice President France and also manages the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile hotel at Porte Maillot, travelled the world before returning to France to join the American group. Her international career, always with major groups, has given her the...

The B&B Hotels group is continuing its expansion into long-stay accommodation. Launched in the summer of 2024 in Saint-Ouen, its B&B Home brand has since set up in the mountains, in Brides-les-Bains, as well as near Caen station, while taking a diversion to the West Indies with an establishment in Fort-de-France. As the year draws to a close, the...

Luxury from every angle. The only five-star hotel with a pied-à-terre on the world's most famous avenue, the Paris Marriott Champs Elysées Hotel adds a new elegance to the prestige of its address. Recently completed, its renovation blends the spirit of the times with the spirit of the place, that of a listed building with a past intimately linked...

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...