top-of-the-range hotels

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...

Canada Montreal Honeyrose Hotel, Tribute Portfolio (June) Located in the heart of the Quartier des spectacles, the cultural epicentre of Quebec's metropolis, this new upscale boutique hotel is inspired by the 1920s and Montreal's art of living. Affiliated with Marriott's Tribute Portfolio brand, the hotel is part of a new tower combining residential flats and guest rooms...

"Location, location, location". In Reykjavik, the Hilton Group remains true to the motto of its founder, Conrad Hilton. The American hotelier could not have found a better location to set up a new address in the Icelandic capital, its fourth after a Hilton, a Canopy by Hilton and, already, a hotel in the Curio Collection, the Reykjavik Konsulat...

Endless sand and, on its long beach, colourful traditional cabins laid out in an Indian thread, middle-class villas dating back to the Belle Epoque: Malo-les-Bains, nicknamed "the queen of beaches", is establishing itself as one of the great seaside resorts of the Côte d'Opale. This coastal district of Dunkirk is just a few kilometres from the...

If you had to pick one opening in France for the Hilton Group in 2023, which would it be? Emmanuel More - Several of them will stand out. For example, we will be opening a Canopy by Hilton in Cannes next summer, right next to the Palais des Festivals. A new design inspired by this glamorous destination, nearly 150 rooms...

Berlin The Hoxton Charlottenburg (mid-2023) The innovative spirit of The Hoxton is perfectly in tune with the golden age of 1920s Berlin. And it is this theme that will serve as the common thread for the brand's first venture into the German capital. Located in the West, in the Charlottenburg district, the future The Hoxton revisits the...

Paris/Ile de France Maison Delano Paris (February) American-born luxury lifestyle brand Delano, now part of the Accor group, is coming to Paris. To mark the occasion, an intimate version of its concept, called Maison Delano, will be opening early this year on rue d'Anjou, in the 8th arrondissement. The establishment revisits a former...

Melia Hotels is going to play doubles with Rafael Nadal. The Spanish group has just announced a partnership with this icon of Spanish and world tennis to launch the ZEL brand, a new lifestyle chain of resorts and urban 'bleisure' hotels with a Mediterranean identity. "An innovative brand, full of energy, which will surprise and delight...

With luxury and lifestyle at the heart of its strategy, and new hotels in major world cities for its Novotel, Ibis and Pullman brands, Accor has presented its 2023 collection of flagship openings. In the luxury segment, several Raffles hotels will all open their doors in the middle of the year, including the eagerly awaited Raffles...

It's no coincidence that the lifestyle hotel sector has been booming for some time now. And, in response to this craze, IHG can count on its Hotel Indigo brand, whose portfolio is set to grow from 135 hotels to more than 200 over the next three years. Launched in 2004, back in the days when boutique hotels were...

Radisson RED. With such a strong brand identity, this new hotel in Liverpool has everything it takes to become a favourite haunt for fans of the Reds, the legendary football club from the city in the north of England. And for business travellers, because of its location. Radisson's lifestyle brand has just given a new lease of life to a...

NH Hotels is making a name for itself in Frankfurt. Last autumn, the city welcomed a Nhow, in keeping with the tone of Germany's financial capital, with its 375 rooms decorated with wallpaper reminiscent of banknotes and its 18 studious meeting rooms. A top-of-the-range lifestyle hotel...

Waterfalls, a beach of fine sand, the shade of luxuriant flora: to read the presentation of Pan Pacific's future flagship hotel, you'd think it was set in the heart of a paradise far from the hustle and bustle of busy life. Not at all: it's right in the middle of Singapore, on Orchard Road, the Champs-Elysées of...