top-of-the-range hotels

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...

Do what we do well, but do it even better: this philosophy underpins the future activity of Accor's new Premium, Midscale and Economy (P&ME) division, which brings together the brands that have made the group's history. And which, including Ibis, Novotel, Pullman and Mercure, still generate a large proportion of sales...

"The job is done. Now it's a question of delivering results", concluded Accor CEO Sébastien Bazin. At its Investor Day, the French group unveiled to the financial community the opening of a new chapter in its growth, symbolised by a new organisation that will consolidate the group's far-reaching transformation while...

To open its fourteenth hotel - the fifth in the Paris region - the Okko chain has found a location that reflects its eco-responsible spirit, as the group has recently become a company with a mission. In other words, the first zero-carbon eco-neighbourhood in Paris, the Îlot Fertile, in the 19th arrondissement. Adjacent to the Rosa Parks RER station,...

Promoting your image through a global star. It's easy to imagine how pleased Accor's marketing managers were when it was announced that Lionel Messi would be joining Paris Saint Germain in 2021. As the club's shirt sponsor for the last two years, the French hotelier was already seeing the reputation of ALL, its new loyalty programme, being raised...

As one of the hotel groups with the strongest presence in Africa's major cities, the Radisson Group is actively pursuing its development strategy. As part of this growth drive, the hotel group has signed a contract to open seven new hotels in the first half of 2023, adding a total of 1,400 new rooms...

Announced for autumn 2022, the transition of the Lindner Group's hotels in Germany to the JdV by Hyatt banner is beginning to take shape. Since June, all the hotels of the urban and lifestyle brand me & all hotels, as well as certain Lindner hotels, are now available for booking on the hyatt.com website,...

A megahub is expected in Riyadh, capable of accommodating 120 million passengers; a futuristic gigaville - NEOM - is being prepared on the shores of the Red Sea, presented as 100% sustainable; urban districts beyond all superlatives; tourism developments galore: Saudi Arabia is teeming with projects to give substance to its...

Following on from Châteauform', another player in the business travel sector is demonstrating its environmental and social commitments by becoming a company with a mission. The first hotel brand to do so, the Okko group amended its articles of association accordingly at the end of March this year, declaring the hotel group's raison d'être: "we have given ourselves a mission to protect the...

Marriott International has remained firmly attached to its position as the world's leading group, acquired since the takeover of Starwood in 2016. With one and a half million rooms at the end of last year, and still growing, the American hotelier is well ahead of Hilton and China's Jin Jiang, the other two groups with one million rooms in...

The Hoxton hotels are doing their bit to encourage sustainable travel. With the environmental impact of rail travel well established, the upmarket brand from Ennismore, Accor's lifestyle hotel subsidiary, is launching The Good Rate. They are offering their customers discounts of 20 euros, pounds or dollars, so that they can travel more...

Just launched in Berlin, the lifestyle brand The Hoxton is also taking to the skies of Brussels, having recently set up shop on the 22 floors of the former IBM headquarters. A Brutalist-style office tower revisited as a hotel, The Hoxton's regular design studio, AIME Studios, plays on the seventies atmosphere and the volumes of the building to...

The Mondrian brand is set to almost triple its number of hotels by 2025. With eight hotels around the world - in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, London, Doha and Seoul, as well as Cannes and Mexico City - this top-of-the-range lifestyle brand is looking forward to fourteen more. Taken over by Accor in...