Paris

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...

There was a big crowd - and even a DJ - at Paris Est station this morning for the departure at 9.55am of the first high-speed train to link the capital to Berlin, via Strasbourg. For the first time, the route will be operated in around 8 hours, using the ICE 3...

Dubai, Singapore, Cape Town, Casablanca, Amsterdam: Mama Shelter will continue to expand in the world's major cities over the coming years. However, the lifestyle brand, founded by Serge Trigano and now part of the Accor group and its subsidiary Ennismore, is still counting on France to underpin its development. After...

One palace on the right bank, another on the left. Mandarin Oriental will soon be able to pride itself on being the only luxury hotel group to operate on both sides of the Seine with the addition of the Hotel Lutetia to its portfolio. Already established on the rue Saint-Honoré since 2011, the Asian hotelier is set to take over the Hotel Lutetia in early 2025.

Châteauform' invites itself into the historic walls of the Institut de France. France's leading MICE company has just been awarded a five-year contract to operate 3 Mazarium, the events space inside the venerable institution that has housed the five academies, including the Académie Française, since 1795. From 2019,...

Faced with steadily rising demand on its Atlantic network, and in order to prepare for the arrival of competitors such as Proxima and Le Train in three to four years' time, SNCF Voyageurs has decided to significantly increase its seat capacity to the South-West, Pays-de-la-Loire and Brittany. To achieve this, the railway company is counting on the use of...

Once the euphoria of the Paris 2024 Games has passed, followed by the generally legitimate self-congratulation of the various organisers involved, the return to reality sometimes proves complex. On the front line, the ADP Group had drawn the stopwatch in the run-up to the event, teaming up with the PAF for a new monthly barometer. Launched in April 2023, this new tool aims to...

And in the end, it's a major northern city that wins. After Gothenburg for the last two years, Helsinki has taken over the top spot in the GDS Index, the ranking of sustainable tourist destinations. Helsinki has consistently demonstrated its commitment to sustainability over the years," says Nina...

Happy. Pharrell Williams is inevitably happy. The star will soon have a nice pied-à-terre when he visits Paris. The artist, who is also creative director of Louis Vuitton's men's collections, has joined forces with investors Mohari Hospitality and Omnam to acquire the Saint James & Albany hotel and breathe new life into this establishment in the Paris Golden Triangle....

The Minor group opened its first three hotels in Paris this year, under the NH brand. Do you intend to expand further in the French capital? Soazig Drais - Paris naturally remains our priority city for growth in France. As such, we are continuing to evaluate development opportunities in other French cities.