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The start of a new year is traditionally a time for taking stock before looking ahead to the future and new developments. In January, the SNCF announced record passenger numbers, Eurocontrol noted that European airspace was gradually approaching pre-pandemic levels...

AUSTRALIA Melbourne 1 Hotel Melbourne (2024)Set on the banks of the Yarra River, this new hotel embodies the arty, eco-friendly spirit of the 1 Hotels chain. By way of regeneration, the luxury brand launched by former Starwood boss Barry Sternlicht is taking part in the Seafarers project. In other words, the metamorphosis of a former industrial...

The choice of accommodation for visitors to the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre continues to expand. In anticipation of the future Radisson Blu, which will take its place in 2026 in the Triangle tower, which is beginning to rise above the exhibition centre, visitors will find new roofs in this favourable area...

NEW HOTELS IN AFRICA South Africa Hampton by Hilton Grayston Sandton Hampton by Hilton Grayston Sandton (Q4)As it prepares to open its largest hotel in Europe this year, in Vienna, the Hilton Group's budget brand Hampton will also make its debut in Africa in 2024. Its first hotel on the continent...

It was the media centre for the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. It will soon be one of the world's largest convention and exhibition centres, when it opens in 2025. It will be a place to welcome heads of state to international summits held in the Chinese capital, as well as the world's leading...

GERMANY Düsseldorf TRIBE Düsseldorf (end 2024) Tribe, one of the Accor group's new contemporary brands, will continue its expansion in Europe with an opening later this year in Düsseldorf, in the central Friedrichstadt district. The result of the renovation of an existing establishment, the Tribe Düsseldorf hotel will offer 146 functional, designer rooms, as well as a friendly lobby where guests can relax and...

The main business hotels expected in the Paris region in 2024 After recovering one of its largest - and highest - business hotels, the Pullman Montparnasse, Paris is preparing to welcome back another of its leading business establishments: the Marriott Paris Rive Gauche. The historic "PLM Saint-Jacques" opened in the early...

Faster, higher, stronger. The Wyndham group is expanding its footprint in the Paris Region business hotel sector. While its Dolce brand is preparing a MICE hotel in Jouy-en-Josas, next spring the American hotelier will be affixing its flag to another large, very large business establishment. A hotel with a front-row seat for the major event of the...

The top-of-the-range Radisson Blu brand has found a new place of choice for business travellers in Paris: the Triangle Tower, the capital's future iconic skyscraper currently rising just above the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre. The project has experienced a number of delays,...

The NH Hotels and NH Collection brands, which you have owned since 2018, are well known to business travellers in Europe. But your Asian group, Minor Hotels, is probably less well known. Could you tell us a little about it? Marion Walsh-Hédouin - This group was created some fifty years ago by Bill Heineke, who is the...

Grand luxury with the unveiling of the first Orient Express in Rome - the Grand Hotel de la Minerve - at the end of 2024; lifestyle to start the year with the inauguration of the Hyde London City and the 25hours Hotel The Oddbird in Jakarta; and, in between, new hotels that are as premium as they are budget: Accor is rolling out...

The Hilton Group is continuing to expand its Signia brand, which specialises in large conference hotels, in the United States. Having already appeared in Orlando and San José, and expected in January in Atlanta, with a hotel directly linked to one of the most important MICE venues in the United States, the Georgia World Congress Center, the brand has unveiled a new project...

Maison ELLE has just launched the second edition of its hotel concept. Following its launch in Paris in 2022, a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe, a new chapter in its history is opening in Amsterdam with a chic, trendy hotel in line with the lifestyle spirit of the famous fashion magazine. For the first time outside...

Loyalty programmes are not just about rewarding frequent stays with upgrades, free nights or even VIP experiences. They can also be used for good causes, by monetising these points and donating them to associations involved in social or environmental issues. Witness Accor's invitation to its loyal customers to support charities...

Since 1955 and the opening of the Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus, one of its first hotels outside the United States, the American group has continued to strengthen its offer in the Turkish metropolis. From Hampton to Conrad, not forgetting the Curio Collection and DoubleTree, a host of brands are present here, for a total of 28 hotels today. And...

The people of Edinburgh know how to tease great architects. Like most Britons, in fact, who are known for their imagination in coming up with evocative nicknames for the skyscrapers that have populated the London skyline. For example, the Gherkin, for the 30 St Mary Axe designed by Norman Foster; or the "talkie-walkie" for...

Following the recent opening of a hotel in Biarritz (see box), the Experimental Group has announced new developments. Where will you be expanding your offer in the coming years? Romée de Goriainoff - We are indeed going to open three new establishments in the near future, with our first hotel in via Ludovisi, Rome, the result of the conversion of a...

It would be hard to find a hotel better placed for business trips. Overlooking France's second-largest business district, the Pullman Lyon, which opened its doors on 27 November, looks down on La Part-Dieu station. Housed in the To-Lyon tower, a 170-metre skyscraper designed by Dominique Perrault which...

The Mercure Tokyo Haneda Airport has just opened its doors, becoming the first international chain hotel close to the runways of Haneda airport, the departure point for many domestic flights and increasingly for international routes due to its greater proximity to the centre of the Japanese capital....

Dolce by Wyndham, the American group's MICE brand, is to make a comeback in the Paris region. Long present in Chantilly, it disappeared when its hotel was transferred to the Accor group's Mercure brand. But it is preparing to reappear from next March, no longer in the north of the capital, but in...