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"We are anticipating an unprecedented pace of openings in 2026, likely exceeding thirty establishments": in an interview with our website last March, Olivier Cohn, the managing director of Best Western France, was forecasting sustained development for its network. The momentum is confirmed with 12 additional establishments for more…

Radisson and B&B Hotels had already set up shop on the island of La Réunion in recent years. The Originals Hotels chain will soon establish itself there with two hotels expected by the end of 2028 in Saint-Pierre. Located just a few minutes from the Saint-Pierre seafront and town centre, these two establishments will play on short and long stays…

Three new addresses on three continents: Mama Shelter continues its global expansion this autumn. After Singapore, Zurich and Dubai, the lifestyle brand founded by Serge Trigano and now part of the Accor group will discover other major global destinations – Mexico City and Cape Town – after having set foot on the edge of the…

Chengdu has confirmed its status as the gateway to Southwest China for international exchange, and Radisson Collection is following suit. Jin Jiang International Hotels and Radisson Hotel Group are opening their very first regional address under this brand there, within the Business & Innovation Centre for China-Europe Cooperation (CCEC), the Sino-European cooperation platform…

The King Abdullah Financial District had been waiting for a signature touch to translate its ambition into a hotel experience. This has now been achieved: W Hotels, a lifestyle brand from the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio, is establishing its first Saudi address there, at the crossroads of business flows and new social trends that are redefining the capital. The LW Design firm has…

The observation was similar, their trajectories identical. Brands like Sofitel and Fairmont needed to refresh their networks to engage a new dynamic and reassert the standing of their hotels. Hence a wave of renovations for Sofitel to champion the idea of refined French luxury, embodied notably…

Accor doesn't do things by halves in the Middle Kingdom. Having been present on the Chinese market for around forty

A Hyatt Regency hotel today, a CitizenM to come in a few weeks: the hotel industry is participating in the metamorphosis of one of Europe's oldest exhibition venues: the historic Olympia Exhibition Centre, which opened in the 1880s in the Hammersmith district. The project, costing £1.3 billion, aims to bring the venue into...

A slightly stressed businessman arrives at check-in, no doubt weary from his endless travels. He then gradually loosens his tie, rolls up the sleeves of his white shirt before swapping it for a polo shirt to play with the shaker and blend in with the hotel's atmosphere...

Can you go over the genesis of Pullman XChange, this concept of events that accompany the brand's transformation? Benoît Racle - Their purpose is to allow us to take the time to ask ourselves questions, to have real conversations that go beyond small talk and allow us to think. Each time, the...

Back in Cannes. The Radisson group, which had left the city after the former Radisson Blu 1835 was rebranded Canopy by Hilton, is returning to the Riviera city with the opening of the Radisson Hotel Cannes Seaside. The result of the acquisition and transformation of a former four-star hotel, the Luxotel, this new...

Yes, in the first half of last year, Accor enriched its portfolio with around twenty new hotels in France, its momentum appears to have increased in the first six months of 2026. The French group in fact announces having achieved nearly 40 openings for a first half judged "exceptional" by Katell Bourgeois, VP Development…

The Hyatt group is continuing its expansion in Italy with three upcoming hotels that will be added to its six existing properties. The Park Hyatt Milan will soon have a luxurious counterpart in Sicily, Taormina, with a 121-suite hotel offering views of Etna and the Ionian Sea from their private terraces. Expected...

Paris already welcomed a hotel at the start of the year inviting you to hum Cloclo songs, the Belinda, with its 73 beautiful, beautiful, beautiful rooms, naturally. Today, reading the programme of new

While Barrière attracts a significant leisure clientele at weekends and during school holidays, the group's 21 four-star or five-star establishments, both in France and internationally, also make it a premier MICE destination due to their accommodation capacity, meeting and reception spaces, and dining venues… Without…

A perfect harmony between Mozart and Beethoven. The Radisson Blu brand has taken over the management of the main business hotels in the legendary composers' birthplaces, one after the other. In Salzburg, it's the former Wyndham Grand Salzburg, with its 1,785 m² of event space and a ballroom that can accommodate 1,000 people, and in...

"That I, me, love Frida." By choosing the new hotel opened by the lifestyle brand Ruby for their next business trip to Stockholm, business travellers will undoubtedly have a tune by Brel in mind, imagining themselves in this house "where it will be good to be". And if it's not certain, when is it...

As the World Cup has just kicked off across the Atlantic, the American hotel industry is strengthening its selection. Now integrated into the Marriott group's offering and loyalty programme, citizenM has opened its third hotel in Washington. The US capital had already discovered the brand's lifestyle ethos in 2020 with the CitizenM Washington DC Capitol,…

To be a guardian and protector of nature, rather than its master and owner: this is the spirit of a seminar house in the Chateauform group located in the upper Chevreuse Valley, the Château Regen'Ronqueux. A name that says a lot about the venue's ambitions. That is, not just to offset or limit the footprint of professional events, but to regenerate...

One is joining the luxurious The Unbound Collection by Hyatt brand, while the other was already part of it. However, all of them, each in their own way, have recently made headlines. First, the Hôtel Martinez in Cannes, which has just joined the exclusive circle of French "palaces", becoming the city's sole hotel to have been elevated...