Strasbourg

The Strasbourg Convention Bureau won't wait for the health crisis to end before allowing companies to bring their teams together and keep them motivated. Despite the current situation, companies need to keep their teams mobilised, launch new products, organise strategic meetings or more entertaining activities... With this in mind, agencies in Strasbourg are vying with one another in their ingenuity...

After Paris and the area around Montparnasse station last September, the IHG group's new upmarket and contemporary brand, voco, is continuing its expansion in France with a second hotel opening in Strasbourg. Close to the cathedral and Petite France, the hotel is also within easy reach of the main tourist attractions...

2020 will go down as one of the most difficult years for Strasbourg airport. After the COVID crisis, which halted all traffic for two months with the exception of medical, freight and repatriation flights, Strasbourg is now faced with the restructuring of the Air France group, with the cessation of flights in the near future...

Archipelago! What a programme! Located around the European Parliament, to the north of Strasbourg, this vast business district project will combine offices, housing and hotels, becoming the flagship of both the city and the European institutions. The development that is currently taking place in the Wacken sector will take place in two stages, with the aim of...

Here's some good news for business travellers in Strasbourg: since Friday, they have had access to one of the world's major hubs, Istanbul Airport. Turkish Airlines began operations at Strasbourg airport on 31 May. The Star Alliance airline - which is gaining momentum at the Alsatian airport - will now be offering four...

Strasbourg had been dreaming of this for a long time. To once again have a regular service to its neighbour, Germany. Although the potential exists, Strasbourg airport has had to contend in the past with the growing power of the Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden hub, some forty kilometres away on the other side of the Rhine. But the...

55 minutes: this is the flight time planned by Lufthansa to link Strasbourg to its Munich hub. This service will operate five times a week from 9 April, and should be of interest to many business travellers, not only for their trips to Bavaria, but also to all the destinations on offer in Europe.

Three years after the creation of the hotel chain, Okko Hotels is continuing its expansion in the French market by adding a new destination to its catalogue. Strasbourg recently joined Nantes, Grenoble, Lyon, Cannes, Rueil-Malmaison and Paris, with the inauguration of an eighth address. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="130669"] The Hotel Okko Strasbourg has 120 rooms, including 8 premium rooms....

HILTON [caption id="attachment_55781" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Hilton Hotel © Florian Guillemin[/caption] They may be called Hilton, and they may cover the globe with more than 4,700 hotels, but in the end the famous customer experience relies on just a dozen or so employees that travellers come across during their stay. It is on them - receptionist, concierge, barman - that the...

LES INNOCENTS [caption id="attachment_55931" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Les Innocents[/caption] Since it opened in summer 2015, this pretty address in the Tribunal district has got into the habit of selling out. For lunch and dinner. The duo of chefs from Alsace, Thierry Bendler and Sébastien Helterle, are at the helm, and they're guilty as charged: they've...

If you have an hour... Visits to the European institutions are available by prior arrangement and, in the case of the Parliament, only during weeks when it is in session. In fine weather, a stroll through the Orangerie park is a must. Located in the heart of the European quarter, this green lung also has a zoo and two restaurants....

How would you describe Strasbourg to a business traveller? Mireille Dartus - Strasbourg is a compact city, so it's very easy to get around on foot. Business travellers and conference-goers naturally take to Strasbourg as their own, a city whose DNA has a very international, very European feel, as well as a border feel. In fact, right from the...

It's a fact that the building of Europe has seen its heyday. But in these times of Brexit and uncertainty, some bastions of the Union are holding firm. Better still, they are asserting their europtimism loud and clear. Such is the case of Strasbourg, which has made this its slogan, "the europtimist", which is displayed throughout the city on local trams. Proudly...