Paris

Green seminars so far away, so close to Paris: that's what two Accor-branded hotels in the Paris region are offering. So far away - relatively speaking, since the hotel can be reached in less than an hour from Montparnasse station - with the Castel Maintenon, and so close with the Domaine de la Reine Margot, in...

What are the traffic results for 2024 and what is the outlook for 2025? Anthony Martin - Paris-Beauvais is characterised by very dynamic traffic after the Covid years. In fact, we have seen growth of over 64% since 2019. Last year, Paris-Beauvais welcomed 6.56 million passengers, up 16.3%...

Decarbonisation, biodiversity and boosting public land transport. This has become the growth niche for the Paris airports of Orly and Roissy CDG under the leadership of the ADP/Aéroports de Paris group. In fact, the terminals as we know them today are not going to change fundamentally. There are simply a few extensions planned, which will make it possible to offer a high...

Unique because multiple. Of course, property developments combining offices, hotels and wellbeing are not uncommon, in France as elsewhere. As the embodiment of these new urban living spaces where uses merge, La Fondation is part of this trend, with a five-star hotel with 58 rooms, over 5,000 sq. metres of...

Announced at the end of last year, the entry of the famous Lutetia into the Mandarin Oriental fold is now official. The Asian luxury group is thus doubling its offering in Paris, adding to its first address on rue Saint-Honoré the only palace currently on the left bank of the Seine. A double anchorage that translates into...

A breath of lifestyle in the chic and well-behaved 7th arrondissement: the SAX Paris hotel blends the hushed elegance befitting its neighbourhood with the distinctive elements of the contemporary hotel industry, from a disruptive events venue to a rooftop with a unique view over the whole of Paris, facing the Eiffel Tower. Owned by the Compagnie de...

The second Paris-Milan Inoui TGV set off this morning at 9.46am, 19 months after the rail line was suspended due to major rockfalls in the Maurienne valley on 27 August 2023. Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot came to the station for the occasion...

Novotel continues to expand its network in Europe. This summer, the brand, which is present in 24 countries with more than 300 hotels in the region, will discover two new countries, firstly Croatia with a first hotel in Zagreb. Located on the eastern outskirts of the Croatian capital, around fifteen minutes from both the city centre and the airport...

From professionals passing through for a night or a few weeks to Erasmus exchange students, The Social Hub Porto has chosen not to choose. Its hybrid hotel concept, taken to the extreme, opens its doors wide to all types of traveller. On the one hand, the recently inaugurated establishment has all the makings of a large business hotel, with...

This is no ordinary occurrence. The discovery last night of an unexploded bomb dating from the Second World War during maintenance work on the railway tracks in Saint-Denis brought all traffic at the Gare du Nord, 2.5 km away, to a standstill. All the lines of Europe's leading railway station were affected...

It could have been called the Hilton Paris Tour Eiffel, as initially planned when the project was mooted at the beginning of the decade. In the end, it will be called the Sax Paris, from the luxury brand LXR Hotels & Resorts, in line with the location of this future hotel in the very chic 7th arrondissement. In fact, the...

In September 2019, Wheely entered the French urban transport market. At the time, the Swiss-born VTC service was already positioned in the high-end segment. Now, more than five years later, Wheely is taking things up a notch and moving into the very high-end segment in Paris. The launch of...

What if the Volocopter flying taxi project were to take off again? The German manufacturer ended 2024 in bankruptcy, after the false start of Paris 2024. It is now starting 2025 with new ambitions. These are underpinned by the partnership forged on 18 February with France's Jet Systems. An objective assumed by...

Parisians and business travellers passing through the capital will soon discover this new addition to the RATP fleet. Code name: MF19, for "Métro Fer appel d'offres 2019". The new metro, manufactured by Alstom, is expected to arrive this year. The MF19 will arrive at the end of 2025 on the...

A major reopening in Berlin and a new hotel in the Paris region: this February offers the Radisson group the opportunity to offer business travellers two addresses that are ideal for business trips and corporate events. Easily accessible from the centre of Paris as well as from La Défense, the Relais de la Malmaison has just entered the Radisson...

Travel in the Ile-de-France region will be affected on Friday 14 February by a strike on the RER. Line A will be affected, with an average of 2 out of 3 trains expected all day on the central section and the Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Marne-la-Vallée - Chessy and Boissy-Saint-Léger branches. As for the Cergy-Le Haut and Poissy branches,...

A marshal's baton for the Maybourne group. The luxury hotelier, known for its incarnations of London chic with its historic palaces Claridge's, Connaught and Berkeley, or The Emory, in a more contemporary style, is preparing to take up residence in the heart of Paris, on the Saint-Germain block. For an exceptional project that revisits...

According to Le Parisien newspaper, SNCF is considering launching a top-of-the-range class on its Inoui trains between Paris and Lyon. This new offer would be based on an improvement to the Business 1st offered to passengers on this route, the most lucrative for the railway company. The company is said to have taken this decision in response to the...

Voyages d'Affaires takes a look at the new hotels expected to open this year in and around Paris. Mandarin Oriental Lutetia (early 2025) It may not be a recent opening, but this new addition to Mandarin Oriental's hotel collection is a major event for the Paris hotel industry. Earlier this year, the Asian group...

2025 will be a busy year for the Radisson group in France. While the reopening of the Cour des Loges in Lyon, transformed into a Radisson Collection luxury hotel, is expected in the first quarter, the group has just announced two new developments, one in Rueil-Malmaison and the other in Montpellier. Both are also expected to open in the first few months of...