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Accelerating the decarbonisation of air transport while supporting a cutting-edge industrial sector: Emmanuel Macron is committed to greening a key sector for the French economy, with Airbus, Dassault, Safran and Thales leading the way on the industrial side, and Air France and ADP on the business travel side. "We have the means...

Following on from Châteauform', another player in the business travel sector is demonstrating its environmental and social commitments by becoming a company with a mission. The first hotel brand to do so, the Okko group amended its articles of association accordingly at the end of March this year, declaring the hotel group's raison d'être: "we have given ourselves a mission to protect the...

Air France, Air Liquide, Novotel, Sécuritas, Suez: these are just some of the 33 signatories of the alliance unveiled this week by the ADP Group. This "Paris-Orly Environmental Alliance" is designed to position the Paris airport at the forefront of the sector's environmental transformation. Justine Coutard explains the approach as follows: "With the creation of the Paris-Orly Environmental Alliance,...

Accor's desire to see all of its 5,400 hotels eco-certified is no mystery, with this objective having been announced for 2026. To accelerate the sustainable transition of its network, the group is now committed to making it easier for 100% of its hotels to obtain certification. The French hotel operator has just signed two international partnerships...

The Hoxton hotels are doing their bit to encourage sustainable travel. With the environmental impact of rail travel well established, the upmarket brand from Ennismore, Accor's lifestyle hotel subsidiary, is launching The Good Rate. They are offering their customers discounts of 20 euros, pounds or dollars, so that they can travel more...

Of course, comparison is not always reason. At a time when we are scrutinising every air journey to assess the benefit/carbon impact ratio, it is better to have all the cards in hand to assess the relevance of an alternative, if one exists. The decree ratifying the ban on (some) domestic flights is a logical step in this direction. The...

29 April saw the official arrival of the tramway at Bordeaux Mérignac airport. It took four years of work and an investment of 95 million euros to build this infrastructure. Bordeaux thus becomes the 7th airport in France to benefit from a rail link. The other airports are...

Substituting closer third places for home-to-work commutes, or even replacing them with outright teleworking: the logic has been gaining ground recently. And there's no doubt that it would tend to reduce the carbon footprint of those involved. All the more so in cities where employees prefer their cars to public transport...

On Tuesday, the Chaire Pégase, dedicated to the economics and management of air transport and attached to Montpellier Business School, presented its new report on the acceptability of green innovations in the air transport sector. And for an event organised at Roissy during a month of May that is not the most studious, the audience gathered at the...

Coincidentally, just two days after an equivalent announcement by American Express Meetings & Events, its competitor CWT is now using its 'metre' trump card on the sustainability issue. On 20 April, CWT Meetings & Events announced the launch of a new carbon footprint calculator dedicated...

Having emerged from the pandemic a year ago, events professionals have returned to near-normal activity as 2022 progresses, close to that recorded in 2019. The Palais des Festivals et des Congrès de Cannes, host of this year's Heavent Meetings show, is expecting to host 140 events this year for a total of...

How do you feel about the EVP 2023 barometer published this week by Amex GBT? Yorick Charveriat - I see the positive side, because we can feel that business is picking up again. Admittedly, we are not at 2019 levels, but we can rely on a solid recovery. There are many...

Every year, it's a good opportunity to look back over the past few months and consider what the near future might hold for business travel: on Wednesday, American Express GBT organised the 32nd EVP 2023 in Paris. At the same time, it unveiled the results of its Business Travel Barometer. Among the many elements deciphered...

All eyes seem to be on artificial intelligence (AI) this week, for better or worse. While voices are being raised in favour of a more rational pace of development, financial managers are looking favourably on the possibility of entrusting more tasks to this technology. Starting with the management of...

Last January, SPL Occitanie Events was awarded ISO 20121 certification at the end of a process launched two years earlier. The destination thus joined a growing club, alongside the Nantes and Saint-Nazaire Convention Bureau, the Bordeaux Convention and Exhibition Centre and Lille Grand Palais.

Châteauform' is reaffirming its humanist and committed nature by officially becoming a "mission-driven company". Established in 2019 by the PACTE law (Plan d'Action pour la Croissance et la Transformation des Entreprises), this status recognises a company's social and environmental mission, a "raison d'être" engraved in the marble of its organisation. The European leader in...

B&B Hotels has just announced its expansion ambitions in the United States. Why has the time come to tackle this market? Fabrice Collet - It's always time to lay the foundations for our future growth. Historically, B&B Hotels has always set its sights on new territories, be it Germany in 2000, Italy in 2010,...

The players in the tourism industry are each turning the page on the pandemic at the turn of 2023. Hotel groups have seen revenue per room exceed 2019 levels. Air France-KLM reported fourth-quarter revenues of €7.1bn, "a record level in the group's history...

What is the new mobility card launched by Freenow? Benjamin Giovanni - The mobility card is linked to the Mobility Budget, launched last year. In other words, an allowance granted by the company to its employees, often on a monthly basis, for personal mobility use or for home-office journeys. In this way, companies can...

Let there be no mistake: SAF made in France is "in the pipeline". At least judging by the list of participants at this "Meeting on sustainable fuels for aviation", held on the morning of 14 February. All the decision-makers involved accepted the invitation of three ministers: Agnès Pannier-Runacher to...