Tokyo

Japan is making a strong impact in the railway sector. After its famous Shinkansen, the country has just given the green light for the construction of the first magnetic levitation line between Tokyo and Osaka, a distance of some 500 km, passing through Nagano, Nagoya and Kyoto in particular. The project has seen significant progress in recent days,...

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...

Specialist - and world leader - in the field of hybrid work, IWG has scrutinised 40 destinations to draw up its "Tracances" list for 2025, its 3rd "Work from Anywhere" ranking. Climate, Internet connectivity, availability of flexible workspaces, price of digital nomad visas and proximity to beaches: 12 criteria were...

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...

Fairmont is expanding its footprint in Asia this year. The Accor group's luxury brand, which is present in several Chinese cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, as well as in Seoul, Singapore, Jakarta and Manila, will be adding several key destinations on the continent to its list of addresses. Mumbai in particular, from next April, when the brand will...

After Geneva recently, and with London to come in early June and the first appearance in Europe of YotelPad, its aparthotel offering, the Yotel brand will be continuing its expansion into the world's major cities in early 2025 in Tokyo, in the Ginza district. It's almost a return to its roots for this concept, which was initially based on the idea of capsule hotels,...

Although VTC applications do exist in Japan - Uber, for example, has been present in Tokyo since 2018 - this type of service is still finding it hard to find a place in the travel options of Japanese people or foreigners present in Japan. This situation is primarily due to a relatively...

There were increasing complaints from passengers about the impossibility of getting to the centre of Tokyo at a reasonable price with Emirates flight EK 312, which landed on the tarmac at Haneda airport at around 10.30pm. But by the time they had passed through police and customs checks and collected their baggage, most of the...

Business travellers will certainly have to be patient before they can discover the new hotels proposed by the luxurious Dorchester Collection in Tokyo and Accor's premium brand, Fairmont, in Dubai. But these emblematic projects stand out today for their impact on the skyline of their respective host cities....

As Japan reopens its doors more widely to tourists, business travellers can now enjoy a new Hilton jumbo jet in Hiroshima, celebrating at the same time the opening of the brand's 600th hotel worldwide. Billed as "one of the largest MICE facilities in the Chugoku and Shikoku region", the hotel...

With its strong ties to Japan's high-tech dimension, Yotel will finally be making its debut in a market that is strategic for business customers, and therefore a natural for the hotel chain. "Japan's emphasis on technology and innovation has been a major source of inspiration for Yotel since our inception. We are...

Mercure is due to open at Tokyo Haneda airport next year. Travellers passing through the Japanese capital's closest hub - less than 20 km away, compared with almost 70 km for Narita - will find the first international chain hotel there, whereas until now the area around the airport...

We will therefore have to wait until 2025 to see Fairmont take its first steps on the Japanese market. The Fairmont Tokyo project was unveiled by the Accor group at the end of May. While information about this first establishment remains sketchy, we do know that it will be a 219-key address. These will be located on the upper floors...

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...

The economic climate remains gloomy for the airline ANA, which has given some outlooks for its business over the coming months. In a note published to coincide with the release of its financial results for fiscal year 2021 (1/04/21 to 31/03/22), the carrier continued to see its results impacted by Covid-related restrictions, particularly...

Just in time, and yet... Opened just a few days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games on 23 July, the new Hyatt Regency Tokyo Bay will not see tourists from all over the world, or even local fans, flocking to the Japanese capital. Due to the circulation of the virus for the big party...

Just thirty years ago, in October 1990, ANA took off for the first time from Tokyo's Narita airport, bound for Paris CDG. It also made a few stopovers in Moscow, Stockholm and Vienna. Since then, the French catalogue has been greatly expanded, from two weekly flights to a daily service, now operated from...

Why is JAL resuming flights to France at a time when Japan has not reopened its borders and it is advisable to avoid Tokyo, which has been hit by a new wave of infections? What markets is the company targeting? Gilles Binard - The resumption of our commercial flights on the Paris-Tokyo route began on 1st...

And in the end, it's the City that wins, despite the Brexit and all the waltz and hesitation surrounding the UK's exit from the EU. The "Attractiveness of Global Business Districts 2020" report, published by EY and the Urban Land Institute (ULI), once again recognises London's business district as the world's most attractive. The...

"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,...