Paris

The Cité de l'Architecture in Paris is presenting a fine exhibition on the chief architect of Aéroports de Paris, Paul Andreu, until 2 June 2024. The retrospective retraces the career and work of this engineer, who became an architect in the exclusive service of Aéroports de Paris. His first project was the design of a new airport terminal in...

Alongside the development of major new coworking spaces, such as Spaces in the To Lyon tower, IWG is adding another string to its bow to strengthen its network in France, and in the Paris region in particular. Owner of the Regus, HQ, Signature and Spaces brands, among others, the world leader in coworking spaces...

For ADP, Paris-Orly must undergo a long-term transformation in line with its territory. In its Orly 2035 project, the Group stresses that the aim is never to increase the number of movements at the airport. Excess traffic will have to be handled within the existing structures, which will have to be redeveloped and enlarged. According to the Paris Orly 2035 project, the reduction...

In its recent presentation of annual results, the ADP group indicated that it was approaching its 2019 traffic level in Paris and exceeding it at its airports outside France. The group thus expects to gradually return to growth rates close to those seen before the Covid-19 crisis. For Augustin de Romanet, Chairman and CEO,...

Despite the ups and downs at the end of 2023, marked by a strike at Eurotunnel and flooding in a south London rail tunnel which had a major impact on cross-Channel traffic, Eurostar had a good year in 2023. The rail carrier, in which SNCF has a stake of almost 56%, carried 18.6 million passengers in...

Business travellers who opt for a car when travelling to Gare de Lyon in Paris or Lyon Part-Dieu can benefit from a new partnership with Trenitalia. The railway company has joined forces with Ector to offer its customers a valet parking service. Passengers can now book a valet service...

What conclusions can be drawn from the 2023 financial year for Paris Region trade shows? As with the other branches of the MICE and business travel industries, business is on the up, with volumes approaching pre-crisis levels once again. The latest barometer from the Paris Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI Paris Ile-de-France) shows that the last quarter has seen an acceleration towards this goal. "This is the...

The choice of accommodation for visitors to the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre continues to expand. In anticipation of the future Radisson Blu, which will take its place in 2026 in the Triangle tower, which is beginning to rise above the exhibition centre, visitors will find new roofs in this favourable area...

Before talking about 2024, how did the past year go? Philippe Mettey - We started to see an upturn at the beginning of the year and ended up having a very good year in 2023, marked by double-digit growth in Europe and real momentum for our Citadines and five-star establishments....

The main business hotels expected in the Paris region in 2024 After recovering one of its largest - and highest - business hotels, the Pullman Montparnasse, Paris is preparing to welcome back another of its leading business establishments: the Marriott Paris Rive Gauche. The historic "PLM Saint-Jacques" opened in the early...

2024 is a major year for Paris, with the hosting of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Let's start with a concern that may affect business travellers. With millions of spectators expected, would you advise them to avoid meetings and appointments in Paris, particularly at the start of the new academic year at the end of August/beginning of September? Pierre Rabadan - The...

Faster, higher, stronger. The Wyndham group is expanding its footprint in the Paris Region business hotel sector. While its Dolce brand is preparing a MICE hotel in Jouy-en-Josas, next spring the American hotelier will be affixing its flag to another large, very large business establishment. A hotel with a front-row seat for the major event of the...

A few months after making its debut in France, the Spanish company Renfe is continuing to make its mark in France. Launched on the Lyon-Barcelona route on 13 July, and then between Marseille and Madrid almost immediately afterwards, its AVE high-speed trains are now to be extended to Paris. This extension of its services is in line with...

The top-of-the-range Radisson Blu brand has found a new place of choice for business travellers in Paris: the Triangle Tower, the capital's future iconic skyscraper currently rising just above the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre. The project has experienced a number of delays,...

This Tuesday morning, just before 10.45am, the first night train from Berlin arrived at Gare de l'Est in Paris after a ten-year interruption, only fifteen minutes late. This new Nightjet train, operated by Austrian Railways (ÖBB) in partnership with SNCF, is...

This is the question that regularly stirs the political and media spheres when Paris and the Ile-de-France region are discussed: how do residents, tourists and business travellers get around the capital, how satisfied are they, and how much room is there for improvement? With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games just around the corner, the...

It's officially a done deal. On 30 March, flights operated by the national carrier Air Malta will be the last in its half-century history. The following day will see the first flights of KM Malta Airlines, the designated successor. The new entity has just received its air operator's certificate from the Maltese Civil Aviation Authority. On the same day, it...

The idea was put forward last spring by Valérie Pécresse, President of the Ile-de-France region and of IDF Mobilité: a special fare will apply to travel to Orly airport via the extension of line 14 once it is brought into service in June 2024. The fare will be €11.50 per journey in a...

A new top-of-the-range Parisian city residence: opened at the end of last summer, the Appart'City Collection Paris Gare de Lyon illustrates in many ways the evolution of the French leader in city apartment hotels. Not least because this establishment is, as is often the case, perfectly located for business travellers. Business travellers represent more and more of the...

Following the recent opening of a hotel in Biarritz (see box), the Experimental Group has announced new developments. Where will you be expanding your offer in the coming years? Romée de Goriainoff - We are indeed going to open three new establishments in the near future, with our first hotel in via Ludovisi, Rome, the result of the conversion of a...