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Australia The leader in the Australian hotel market, the Accor group will continue to strengthen its network, notably with the lifestyle Hyde brand, which is expected to open in the heart of Perth, on the west coast. Mercure, which already has a strong presence in Melbourne, will be adding a new address in the country's second-largest city in March...

Bill Murray will soon be able to take his jet-lagged actor spleen for a spin once again. The flagship host of the film Lost in Translation, the Park Hyatt Tokyo is back in business at the end of the year, celebrating its 30th anniversary by offering travellers a redesigned setting after more than a year's work. With new restaurant concepts, but with the same elegance as before...

Having strengthened its offering in Paris by taking over management of the Lutetia - through an agreement with Locka Holding which will also enable it to make its debut in Amsterdam at the Conservatorium hotel - luxury group Mandarin Oriental has just announced a new guest of choice in its portfolio: the San Clemente...

In its latest Responsible Business 2024 report, the Radisson Group highlights the progress it has made in terms of sustainability and responsibility. With, for example, more than half of its hotel portfolio certified or 95 hotels using 100 % of renewable electricity, 33 % reduction in carbon emissions per m²...

The Hilton group will be signing a number of firsts in the third quarter of this year, with the arrival this summer of its first hotels in Nepal, Laos and East Timor. From July onwards, business travellers to Kathmandu will find a 173-room Hilton hotel designed for corporate meetings, with...

The Vignette Collection is set to double in size within a year. This grouping of non-standardised luxury hotels, launched in summer 2021, currently comprises 11 hotels, including the Casa da Companhia in Porto and the Convent Square in Lisbon, the Sindhorn Midtown hotel in Bangkok and the Yours Truly DC in Washington....

With the gradual upturn in international travel since 2023, China remains an attractive destination for hotel groups. Marriott recently announced a partnership with the Delonix group, which operates more than a thousand hotels in the country under a dozen different brands. The plan is to affiliate around a hundred hotels over the next few years...

With a new hotel opening almost every three days in China, the Hilton Group is one of the world's leading hotel operators in this key market. This pace of growth will be reinforced by new projects signed during the first half of 2023. "We're very proud of this series of recent signings, as...

The first elements of Swiss's 2023-2024 winter programme were unveiled on 26 April. The airline intends to focus on several strategic areas for business travellers, on long-haul routes. The Lufthansa Group carrier will be significantly strengthening its service to Miami. Swiss will be doubling the frequency of flights to...

Already an iconic landmark, the Carlton in Cannes will add a new dimension to its prestige in spring 2023 when it becomes part of the Regent Hotels luxury brand. Used to welcoming celebrities to the Croisette, the hotel currently sports the InterContinental brand, one of the flagship brands of the IHG group. Renovated over a two-year period under the...

At one time there were 'designer' hotels such as Armani and Bulgari. More recently, other big names have branched out into hotels, including Fauchon, Maisons du Monde and mk2 in France, and Muji in Asia, with hotels in Beijing, Shenzhen and Tokyo. The sportswear brand Fila will soon be added to this list...

Or how to start the year on the right foot. On 1 January, the Hilton Group inaugurated a new luxury hotel under the Conrad brand right in the heart of Shanghai. Located in Puxi, the historic waterfront of the Chinese megalopolis, the hotel is housed in a 66-storey tower overlooking People's Square....

For its new address in a business destination as popular as Shanghai, the Accor group has opted for a strategic location, in keeping with the brand's high standards. And so it is in the North Bund district - with an uninterrupted view of the famous banks of the Huangpu River - that the hotel will be inaugurated in...

The Hyatt group has just opened a new hotel in Shanghai in the Songjiang district, a district with an ancient history, with cultural heritage dating back 6,000 years, but which is also rooted in modernity. This economic and technological development zone, home to thousands of companies and seven universities, is the spearhead of Shanghai's economic and social development.

After several establishments in Europe, most recently in Brussels, and its recent debut in Africa, in Bamako, the Radisson Collection is continuing to expand in Asia-Pacific. The Radisson Group's luxury brand has unveiled its first hotel in China, in Shanghai, in the central district of Xujiahui, close to a number of high-rise buildings...

At the end of December, Hyatt unveiled the first five establishments of its UrCove brand in Shanghai, Chengdu and Nanjing. Like the IHG group before it with its Hualuxe brand - which has 12 hotels open and 24 in the pipeline - the American hotelier is launching a brand specially dedicated to the Chinese market. Developed in...

At a time when Paris was putting pressure on Beijing to grant Air France-KLM as many flights between China and France as Chinese airlines, i.e. three weekly connections, the French airline received notification yesterday that it had been authorised to operate a second flight between Paris and Shanghai, a new weekly service which should begin as early as this week...

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...

"You can't be and have been. Well, you can! All over the world, the world's major business cities are putting the popular saying to rest. What were the key metropolises at the end of the 19th century? New York and Chicago in the United States, London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow in Europe, Tokyo in Asia,...