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After Rome, Barcelona, Brussels and Berlin in recent years, The Hoxton is continuing its tour of major European cities by adding a second hotel in Amsterdam. Already established on Herengracht, in the Negen Straatjes district, nine typical, lively alleyways in the heart of the city, the brand has just set up in the docklands district...

With 48 hotels in Turkey, including around thirty in Istanbul alone, the Marriott group is not entering uncharted territory. However, the American hotelier has no intention of stopping there. Its expansion plan will soon see the opening of 13 new hotels, with a total of 2,000 rooms. Contracts have recently been signed for a number of...

Antoine Dupont, Jonathan Sexton, the Barrett brothers, Eben Etzebeth, Owen Farrell... Business travellers who are rugby fans may come across one or other of these big names when they travel to France. All 20 teams have set up base camps in a number of hotels. An establishment like the Relais...

The opening of the FirstName hotel last year, the new lifestyle face of the Burdigala, which is due to return to business this month, and soon a Mondrian establishment designed by Philippe Starck: contemporary hotels are all the rage in Bordeaux. This autumn, the Gironde city will have the privilege of welcoming the Hotel Indigo brand, part of the...

The Hilton group's luxury hotel chain Waldorf Astoria is discovering the African continent with the opening of its first hotel in Cairo, in the Heliopolis district. The interiors blend Art Deco with references to the Pharaonic era, and the 252 sophisticated rooms and suites reflect the country's cultural history through locally inspired works of art and graphic...

The W Edinburgh has taken its time getting off the ground. Seven years after the announcement of the project - when the lifestyle brand was still managed by the Starwood group, before its takeover by Marriott - and two years behind schedule - Covid being the only hotel in the world to have been built - the...

New and more new in Sydney's west. A fast-growing area, whose development is supported by the Australian government and the state of New South Wales, which are putting billions on the table to make this suburb a growth area. On the agenda: new transport infrastructure, new buildings, new...

The Carlton has regained all its prestige after a long renovation phase, and the Grand Hotel is now being revived under the Mondrian brand: the Cannes hotel industry has seen several major developments in recent months. The recent opening of the Canopy by Hilton Cannes has just added to the list, with a lifestyle hotel of...

Accor is continuing to strengthen its position as hotel leader in Eastern Europe, particularly in Poland, where the French group has just opened an ibis Styles near Warsaw's Frédéric Chopin airport. With 124 rooms and meeting rooms, the hotel offers, as is customary for the budget brand, a themed design, this time...

Design, an arty touch, lively lobbies: with Radisson RED, the Radisson Group portfolio has its lifestyle trump card. First seen last year in Liverpool, Madrid, Oslo and Vienna, but also present in Cape Town, Chandiragh, Dubai and Brussels, Radisson's design brand is approaching the milestone of twenty hotels...

With a new hotel opening almost every three days in China, the Hilton Group is one of the world's leading hotel operators in this key market. This pace of growth will be reinforced by new projects signed during the first half of 2023. "We're very proud of this series of recent signings, as...

Marguerite de Valois - the famous Queen Margot, made famous as much by history and her marriage to Henri IV as by being played by Isabelle Adjani - took refuge here to escape the plague raging in Paris. Situated in the hills above Issy-les-Moulineaux, the site was long used as a monastery, housing a convent for centuries...

This is not loyalty. Ennismore, by naming its new programme "Dis-loyalty" - accentuated by the crossed-out word "loyalty" - is showing its colours. In keeping with the spirit of its establishments - Mama Shelter, Hoxton, Mondrian and others - Accor's lifestyle hotel subsidiary could only have taken an offbeat approach to loyalty.

The Burdigala, long Bordeaux's leading upmarket hotel, is getting ready to regain its status. Closed since October 2021 to embark on a renovation programme, the hotel is set to reopen in early September. Redesigned by interior architect Fabien Roque, the hotel will oscillate between luxury and lifestyle. With a boutique feel too...

Marriott International is set to welcome some choice hotels to its distribution system and its Marriott Bonvoy loyalty programme. The American group has just signed a partnership agreement with MGM Resorts International to include some of the largest hotel-casinos in the United States, with more than 40,000 rooms....

The IHG Group will soon consolidate its position as the leading hotel group in Lebanon with, admittedly, a total currently limited to four hotels under the Crowne Plaza, Staybridge Suites and InterContinental brands. "After opening our first hotel in the Middle East, the InterContinental Phoenicia, several decades ago, we are proud to continue...

Owners of electric vehicles can only rejoice: the number of recharging points available in hotel car parks is growing all the time. Recently, the Radisson group, one of the most active in e-mobility, announced a new partnership with PowerGo to accelerate the deployment of these...

Alongside the traditional loyalty programme, there is a more personal, even more intimate way of creating a special bond between business travellers and their favourite hotels: the sale of merchandising. Turning a customer into an ambassador, proudly displaying the brand's logo when travelling or at home...

The Tribe brand will be adding a new hotel in Lyon at the end of the summer, its 6th establishment in France and the 11th in the world for this lifestyle brand from the Accor group. As in the Batignolles and Saint-Ouen districts of Paris, Tribe will be setting up in a place that reflects its image, lively and bohemian, the...

Present in many German cities, as well as Paris, Florence and Copenhagen, 25Hours is continuing its expansion outside Europe. After Dubai, the lifestyle brand will be setting up in Jakarta by the end of the year. To make its entry into the Indonesian capital, the brand created by Christoph Hoffman and gradually absorbed by Accor from the beginning of...