São Paulo

While the advent of flying taxis has been heralded for some years now, airports are getting organised to be ready for take-off. The Urban Blue project was unveiled a year ago by several hubs, including Nice airport. And it is with the same objective in mind that Sao Paulo airport is...

JW Marriott is continuing to expand in the world's major cities. By 2025, the American group's premium brand has announced its intention to open a hotel in Tokyo, with 200 rooms and a MICE area of almost 1,000 m2. The hotel will be located in a new building complex, the result of the redevelopment of the former railway depot...

Luxury, tropical vegetation galore, art and design, exclusive event spaces: Rosewood, owner of the Crillon in Paris, is marking its arrival in São Paulo in style. The luxury brand has set up shop in the heart of Brazil's main business metropolis, close to Avenida Paulista. And yet...

Marriott has announced that it expects to open a JW Marriott in Sao Paulo in the second quarter of 2022. Located along the Avenida Nações Unidas, within the LEED-certified Parque da Cidade complex, this future luxury hotel will replace another, as it will take up residence within the walls of the former Four Seasons, which opened in 2018...

Old-world elegance and ultra-contemporary sophistication: opened in Warsaw in August, the Nobu Hotel Warsaw brings together two experiences in one place. With a classic spirit, one of its wings is housed in an Art Deco building dating from the 1920s, the former Rialto Hotel, while the other, newly built, seduces with its very contemporary lines....

More and more Chinese cities are appearing in AT Kearney's annual ranking of the development potential of major business cities. From just 7 out of 60 in 2008, they now number 27 out of the 130 cities surveyed by the consultancy firm. This compares with just 12 American cities. And yet, and this is...

Report and photos by Florian Guillemin. There's the Brazil of postcards, sun-drenched destinations that tourists from all over the world dream of. But let's face it: Sao Paulo is not one of them. And yet its inhabitants have no qualms about it, busy as they are fuelling the country's economic engine. While...

If you have an hour... The hustle and bustle of Paulista can quickly bore business travellers oppressed by traffic. They can take a short stroll in the Parque Tenente Siqueira Campos off Avenida Paulista or, a little further south and much larger, in the gigantic Parque Ibirapuera....

one of the world's top ten economic powers Are the city's infrastructures adapted to the expectations of business customers? Stéphane Engelhard - They are, with a very large hotel capacity and two convention centres suited to international events. Accommodation is easy and affordable. As for transport...

After Kuala Lumpur and Sao Paulo in 2018, luxury group Four Seasons is continuing to expand its offering in a number of major business cities. Of the nine hotels to open this year, only three are authentic resorts, with a new establishment in Napa Valley, within a wine estate, and another in Mexico,...

Aigle Azur, France's second-largest airline, has ambitious expansion targets. "We've spent seven months working on our turnaround, putting our organisation and our model to the test," describes Frantz Yvelin, Chairman of the airline. 2018 is the year in which we reinvent ourselves with the aim of being a hybrid carrier, with a 'low fare' strategy but...

São Paulo is a sprawling city with an official population of 11 million. In fact, it could be closer to 19 million, or even 23 million if you include the greater metropolitan area. In any case, these are fluctuating figures, difficult to determine, as São Paulo moves, advances, changes and expands a little more each year... And yet it is this capital...

São Paulo's helicopter fleet will soon almost certainly be the largest in the world. For a long time, it was ranked behind Tokyo and New York, but the newspaper Estado de São Paulo has just published a study that would change the situation in favour of Brazil's economic capital. The story begins in 1994, when the Brazilian government...

"Brasilia? But it's a city with no soul!" scoff the Pau listes and other coastal dwellers. Is it? Well, given the images we've seen of the city, you'd be forgiven for wondering. And while there's no doubting the plastic beauty of the place, it's...

But the days of double-digit growth are over. After the slowdown that followed the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the current downturn is the main cause for concern in the press, but also among the Thai authorities. In April, the Bank of Thailand forecast a decline from 1.5 1TP3Q to 3.5 1TP3Q...