Paris

Proxima has made a good start on the €1 billion it received from the Antin Infrastructure Partners fund before the summer. For €850 million, the future competitor of the SNCF in the west of France has just ordered 12 Avelia Horizon high-speed trains from Alstom. Delivery is due to start in 2028, which suggests that the trains will be...

Through its subsidiary Urban Station, RATP is developing its events business in Paris by rehabilitating its heritage buildings scattered around the capital. In particular, the former electrical substations built between 1900 and 1920, with their fine Art Nouveau and Art Deco architecture. The first three openings after completion of the work are scheduled...

The opening up to rail competition is set to accelerate in 2025 with the announcement today that Trenitalia will be offering services as far as Marseille on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille route, which is the busiest and, above all, the most lucrative for SNCF. "We are currently awaiting the final authorisation for services to start in 2025", the company confirmed to us this morning...

At this week's InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin, SNCF Voyageurs and Deutsche Bahn (DB) unveiled their new direct service between Paris and Berlin, operating daily from 16 December. DB will have the privilege of providing the transport thanks to its...

"We write on the walls the strength of our dreams". The Accor Group's Handwritten Collection seems to have made Demis Roussos' words its own by affixing its logo in handwritten letters to the Accor Arena. To coincide with the Taratata concert celebrating the 40th anniversary of the former POPB, the top-of-the-range...

And the best hotel in the world is... the Capella Bangkok. The World's 50 Best Hotels ranking has given its verdict, with this palace of 101 suites and villas along the Chao Phraya taking over from the Passalacqua, on the shores of Lake Como, at the top of the list. Launched last year on the...

To be the guardians of the stadium for an evening; the only occupants, or almost the only occupants, of a Parc des Princes suddenly empty after vibrating to the songs of the PSG supporters. Then to wake up in a stadium in the simple beauty that has just been woken from its slumber, this brutalist nudity designed by the architect Roger Taillibert in the...

Faced with the political and social turmoil that is now doubling as a real economic crisis in New Caledonia, the overseas territory's airline, AirCalin, is trying to survive. It has decided to restructure its network to adapt to current realities. Starting with the cancellation of its Noumea-Tokyo Narita flight. The total absence of Japanese passengers,...

How would you describe Eurostar's new corporate offer? François Le Doze - It came into force on 10 September on all our markets, with the aim of unifying the offer that existed on our two networks - cross-Channel and continental Europe - with simplicity in the contract, at a legal level, in contact with...

Do Experimental Group's lifestyle hotels attract a large business clientele? Romée de Goriainoff - Yes, they account for between 40% and 60% of our hotel occupancy. Business travellers have a rather cold image. But today, some of this clientele, particularly in the tech, fashion and investment fund sectors, are...

Rooms costing more than €1,000 on the evening of the opening ceremony, and even much more for some hoteliers criticised by UFC-Que Choisir; drastic conditions for the number of compulsory nights or cancellations: at the end of December last year, the consumer association warned of the surge in hotel rates during the...

After a recovery phase in 2022, followed by a gradual return to normal in 2023, Paris Region trade shows are now almost all back to pre-Covid levels. Activity in the first half of 2024 is in line with that seen in 2018, the last even-numbered reference year, according to the latest indicators for Paris Region trade shows...

A few days after announcing a new lyf hotel in the stands of Chelsea football stadium in London, Ascott is unveiling other projects in Europe. Notably in France, where the world leader in long-stay accommodation will open a Citadines aparthotel in Colmar in 2026. All this, in parallel with a renovation plan that has already...

After opening a residence in the Montmartre district last year, Edgar Suites is continuing to expand its offering in the Paris region. The company, which specialises in top-of-the-range urban aparthotels, has just added a new establishment in Montrouge, just a stone's throw from the Evergreen campus, the global headquarters of Crédit Agricole. Located next to the metro and the...

Keeze continues to add to its portfolio of event venues in Paris with the inauguration of a space nestled on the sixth and top floor of a building at 7 rue de Bucarest, in the 8th arrondissement, equidistant between Place de Clichy and Gare Saint-Lazare. The light, modern extension, with its large bay windows, stands in stark contrast to the...

One of the future flagships of the MICE hotel industry in the Paris region. The Dolce by Wyndham Versailles, which opens its doors in July in Jouy en Josas, has everything it takes to welcome companies in conditions worthy of their rank. In a historic location, in a green setting, in the heart of a vast 1,800 square metre conference centre, the Dolce by Wyndham Versailles...

Transilien SNCF line users are now used to these screens, which display in real time how busy the next trains are, car by car, at three levels: low, medium or high. This system was gradually rolled out in the midst of the pandemic, and since May 2023 has been extended to all the H, J, K, L, N, R,... lines.

Laurence Gaborieau, Managing Director of the IFTM (International French & Travel Market), met the press on 20 June at the beautiful and historic Maison des Polytechniciens in Paris to give an update on the direction and new features of the show, which will take place from 17 to 19 September at the...

A seminar venue in the great outdoors, but accessible using the Navigo pass, with a T13 tram stop right next door and the Saint-Cyr-l'École RER station not far away. The café-hotel Le Bout du Parc responds to two major trends in business meetings and events today: the need for...

It's now just a matter of days. On 24 June, the extension of line 14 of the Paris metro will open to the public as far as Saint-Denis-Pleyel station in the north and, more importantly, Paris-Orly airport, with President Emmanuel Macron expected to attend the inauguration. Begun in 2018, this extraordinary project, which is entirely underground, was initially scheduled to be completed in 2010...