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A first meeting with the financial community since the beginning of 2019. At the end of September, Marriott brought together investors and analysts at W South Beach in Miami, giving its executives the opportunity to demonstrate that their group had lost none of its strength or its drive despite the pandemic. Its CEO, Anthony Capuano,...

The Airbnb model is no stranger to hotel groups. Marriott took the plunge with the launch of its Homes & Villas in 2019, followed by Apartments by Marriott Bonvoy at the end of last year. Similarly, Accor got into alternative accommodation in 2016 when it bought Onefinestay, a player in the private flat rental market...

Like a return to the origins. The Pullman Singapore Hill Street, which has just opened its doors in the heart of the City-State, plunges its guests into the world of the sleeping cars created in the 19th century by George Pullman. A journey into the past organised in a contemporary way. As soon as they arrive, they will be greeted by Pullman Porters, as well as a...

The autumn-winter collection for the Paris hotel industry began its runway show in mid-September with the opening of Le Grand Mazarin, Maisons Pariente's first showcase in the capital. Vintage furniture, works of art galore, the very best in French craftsmanship and, to orchestrate it all, a benchmark, the designer Martin Brudnizki, who combines his passion for...

Rotterdam was not an unknown destination for Hilton, far from it. Last May, its flagship brand celebrated sixty years of existence at the Hilton Rotterdam, the brand's fourth establishment in Europe after those in Madrid, Istanbul and Amsterdam, inaugurated the year before, in 1962. A position as the doyen of the international hotel industry in...

The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Elton John, Laurence Olivier and the London premiere of Arturo Ui's Resistible Ascension: the Saville Theatre stage has long played the leading roles. A prestigious list to which the CitizenM brand could soon be added, in the company of another headliner, the...

A rooftop with a view of Hollywood Hill and the Los Angeles skyline: since 2015, fans of Mama Shelter hotels have already had a pretty spot to stay in L.A., the only one currently in the United States. In a few years' time, in 2026, they will have a new opportunity to live in the Californian metropolis in a Mama Shelter...

Ahead of one of the year's flagship openings, scheduled for October at the luxurious Fifth Avenue, New York has seen the arrival of a new voco hotel close to LaGuardia airport, in the Flushing district. The voco Fiorello - LaGuardia East is the fourth property in the IHG Group's contemporary brand, offering 114 rooms for travellers...

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...