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"A very, very good year", as Olivier Cohn, General Manager of Best Western France, describes it. Unsurprisingly, in line with the results published by other major players in the global hotel industry, Best Western had a very positive year in 2022. The reservation centre's worldwide sales rose by...

Owned by Kempinski since it opened in 2005, the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi is now officially under the luxurious Mandarin Oriental banner. This handover had been in the pipeline since the announcement, at the end of 2019, of the takeover of this emblematic hotel in the Emirati capital, one of the most expensive in the world due to the cost of its...

The budget brand Ibis Styles has made its debut in Scandinavia with its first hotel in Copenhagen. The Accor Group brand has set up close to the centre of the Danish capital, in the predominantly sustainable Ørestad business district. Just a 15-minute metro ride from the central station, the hotel is located in the...

Cannes, as well as soon seeing the reappearance of one of the jewels in its hotel crown - the Carlton - under the ultra-luxury Regent banner, owned by the IHG group, will be the first to welcome the debut of the Mondrian brand. Expecting its first guests on 10 March, the Mondrian Cannes will mark the arrival in France of this chic, contemporary chain from Ennismore,...

Singapore is both a hotel tradition embodied in historic monuments and a bold vision of the future. It is the timeless elegance of the Raffles, and the exaggerated modernity of the Marina Bay Sands (MBS). The use of the greatest architects, backed by the traditional precepts of feng shui. These apparent paradoxes, and...

As it does every year in February, In Extenso drew up a report on the state of hotel activity in France over the past year, with STR adding its international perspective. Unsurprisingly, both analyses confirmed a widespread recovery. Admittedly, demand was down 8% on a worldwide basis,...

Europe of course, the Americas with a hotel in Los Angeles, soon the Asian continent and the Middle East with an opening expected at the end of the year in Dubai... The only territory left for Mama Shelter to explore was Africa. This should be a reality by 2024, with a project recently announced in the main...

A station hotel like no other, far removed from those establishments such as InterCity Hotels that punctuate the route taken by travellers on their business trips in Germany and Europe. Expected to open in March, the Barcelo Group's Royal Hideaway Canfranc Estación is aimed more at railway history buffs. A hotel housed in the...

While the Marriott group, the world's largest with one and a half million rooms, is actively pursuing its development, the other hotel leaders are following a similar dynamic. Hyatt has announced a record number of projects for the coming years, with a pipeline of 117,000 rooms worldwide. To reinforce its growth,...

The Ascott group is completing its conquest of Paris's beautiful districts by preparing to set up its luxurious The Crest Collection on the Left Bank, quai des Grands Augustins. Following on from La Clef Louvre, La Clef Tour Eiffel and La Clef Champs-Élysées, by 2026 the world leader in extended-stay hotels will be offering a fourth five-star address in the...

Updated on 31/1 at 12 noon - Authors: Arnaud Deltenre and Luc Citrinot for the South-East Asia Australia region Sydney's famous Darling Harbour district is set to be enriched this year by a new landmark building, the Ribbon, with its curved, futuristic silhouette. This is undoubtedly because this major project, incorporating a...

Forever first? Of course, nothing can be taken for granted in the hotel business. But since the takeover of its rival Starwood in 2016, the Marriott group's offering has far outstripped the rest of the hotel groups, with its million and a half rooms and 8,300 hotels around the world. A leadership position that...

It was almost a foregone conclusion, as Accor has just demonstrated once again with the launch of the Handwritten Collection: the range of 'collections', which are particularly popular with hotel groups, is set to grow. The original impetus behind the emergence of these brands - the desire to offer their customers hotels with a unique character and the...

The Green Key label is making inroads into the French hotel industry. Driven as much by customer expectations as by their own environmental concerns, more and more hotels are beginning to display this international label, created in Denmark in 1994 and deployed outside France under the name Green Key. The Best Western network...

Middle East Saudi Arabia Fairmont Ramla Serviced Residences, Riyadh (early 2023) Already present in the Saudi capital with a 298-room and suite hotel, the luxury brand Fairmont is adding a second residential address. This long-stay establishment will appeal to business travellers, as it is located close to King Abdullah's financial district and...

The Orient Express epic, which began 140 years ago, will soon be setting sail again. In taking over this legendary travel brand, the Accor group made no secret of its desire to give it a new lease of life worthy of its status. This ambition has already resulted in the relaunch of a number of new luxury trains, which are expected...

The Spanish Melia group is taking over an emblematic Barcelona hotel, the Rey Juan Carlos, ideally located on the Catalan metropolis' main thoroughfare, the Avenida Diagonal. The hotel positions Melia as a new key player in Barcelona's MICE corporate events sector, as the establishment is attached to the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, the city's...

The Hyatt group has made no secret of its firm resolve to expand its offering in the EMEA region. And the start of 2023 has been extremely productive. After the opening of a Hyatt Regency in Izmir, with plenty of room for meetings, and the announcement of a new Unbound Collection member in Davos, the American group has just...

JW Marriott is adding a second address in Germany, following an initial hotel unveiled last year in Frankfurt. While in the financial capital, the luxury brand has entered the walls of the former Jumeirah, it is by taking over the reins of a former hotel of the Maritim Hotel group that JW Marriott has established itself in Berlin. And no...

One hundred years old. The Centaurus Group, owner of the upmarket Maison Albar boutique hotels, is celebrating this venerable age with a show of its full vigour. Founded in 1923 by a family who came up from the Aveyron to open their first hotel in Paris - and now in its fourth generation at the helm with Céline...