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A mid-life crisis in the best sense of the word, etymologically speaking, with the idea behind it of sorting things out before making a profound change. As Sofitel blows out its 60th birthday in June, celebrating the opening of its first hotel in Strasbourg in 1964, the Accor group's luxury brand is ushering in a new era...

Sébastien Bazin spoke of the enormous potential of the Indian market, but also of the difficulties in exploiting it, during the presentation of the results for the last quarter and for 2023. "We have around sixty hotels in India, compared with nearly 700 in China, even though we started developing there at the same time...

Before turning to the latest news from the Best Western network in France, let's start with a review of the year 2023. Was the business clientele there? Olivier Cohn - Clearly. We saw a real willingness to travel on the part of both large groups and SMEs. Business customers were back last year, and they're back now.

Barcelona's business hotel sector is reinventing itself. Shortly after the revival of the former Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I, next to the Palacio de Congresos and now, after a long renovation phase, the Gran Melia Torre Melina, another hotel designed for business travellers has just appeared: the Grand Hyatt Barcelona. A hotel whose history...

Vienna, the new destination of choice for hoteliers. Month after month, new hotels are opening, making the Austrian capital one of the most dynamic European cities in terms of development, alongside Dublin, Frankfurt and Lisbon. According to Cushman & Wakefield, the city's hotel supply is set to grow by 4.2% over the period 2023-2025, compared with 1.1%...

Hilton plans to go from 1 to 100 by adding a new luxury and lifestyle brand to its portfolio, NoMad. The brand is based on the chic NoMad London, ranked among the 50 Best Hotels of the World, which the American group intends to roll out worldwide. The American group...

Updated on 3 April at 2pm After Dijon and Rennes last year, Mama Shelter is expanding its collection of addresses in French cities with a hotel in Nice. The project, the result of the renovation of a municipal services building into a lifestyle hotel, had already been announced, but the opening date is now known: 13 June next....

Ennismore, Accor's lifestyle hotel subsidiary, has made Dubai one of its key destinations, and already has a dozen hotels in the emirate. Last year, for example, saw the debut of an SO/ hotel in the Uptown Dubai complex in the heart of the city, as well as a Banyan resort...

From the outside, the brick colour of its entrance is in keeping with the inter-war buildings that line Paris's inner ring road. Once through the door, the atmosphere is more akin to Vincennes zoo. A lion, an ostrich, a gazelle, a pelican holding a light in its mouth or beak: the welcoming committee is representative of the atmosphere created by...

One year after Marriott, IHG has just passed the symbolic milestone of 1,000 hotels in Asia-Pacific, including more than 700 in Greater China alone. Rajit Sukumaran, the British group's managing director for East Asia and the Pacific, hailed this as a "fantastic achievement". To achieve this result, IHG has been able to rely on the attractiveness...

The landing of the Tribe brand at Milan Malpensa airport, the debut of Mercure in Albania, in Tirana, the Ibis brand which continues to spread its establishments in France, the United Kingdom and Romania: the Accor group continues to develop its portfolio of premium, mid-range and economy brands across Europe. All the more so since...

Hilton is moving up a gear to increase the density of its offering in the luxury and lifestyle segment. In the space of a few weeks since the start of the year, the American group began by concluding a partnership with Small Luxury Hotels of the World to integrate hundreds of luxury hotels into its distribution system and its...

Modified on 11/03 at 17:30 With a large number of hotels due to open around the world in 2023 and further growth expected in 2024, the world's leading hotel groups are offering business travellers new accommodation solutions around the globe. Focus on the development of each of the major international groups, as well as on the main...

Modified on 11/03 at 17:30 A strong focus on luxury and lifestyle, but also new mid-range brands, the continued expansion of their 'collections', hotel conversions and projects galore: the development of the major hotel groups is following broadly the same path. In fact, the Marriott group has consolidated...

For over fifteen years now, the Radisson Blu brand has enjoyed a strategic location in Marseille, on the emblematic Vieux Port. Next door to two local institutions, the Bar de la Marine and the Théâtre de la Criée, this top-of-the-range establishment, which has been awarded the Clef Verte label, embarked last October on a complete renovation of the entire...

Revenue per room (RevPAR) up 23% over the year, sales up 20% to more than €5 billion, EBITDA topping the €1 billion mark for the first time in its history: 2023 will have been more than profitable for the Accor group. These two divisions, created...

More than a demonstration of resilience, a real performance. At its annual conference, In Extenso Tourisme, Culture et Hôtellerie drew up a positive assessment of 2023 for the French hotel industry. With occupancy continuing to grow (+3%) and average prices still on the rise (+7%) - the latter essentially linked to the increase in the...

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...

The Hilton Group is getting closer to one of the big names in independent hotels: Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH). The American group has just announced an exclusive strategic partnership with this network of more than 550 independent luxury hotels, which will gradually be offered to its customers, in particular the 180 million members of the...

After Salalah, on Oman's southern coast, and Jebel Akhdar, luxury brand Anantara is set to complete its offering by moving closer to the country's capital, Muscat. Its owner, the Minor group, has just announced the future management of a hotel complex currently under development in Bandar Al Khairan, 45 minutes from Muscat....