top-of-the-range hotels

The Hyatt group is going to give a real boost to its JdV brand in Europe. Expected to open in Bordeaux at the end of the year, this lifestyle brand, which promotes "Joie de Vivre" - hence JdV - has only recently made its appearance on the continent. To date, it has opened one hotel in Rome and three others in Sweden, in Stockholm and...

The smallest of the big groups. With almost 1,200 hotels worldwide, compared with over 8,000 for Marriott and just under 7,000 for Hilton, Hyatt is certainly not the most bulimic hotelier. However, the reputation of its top-of-the-range establishments and the presence of its hotels in the main...

A futuristic 50-metre-high tower overlooking the whole of Brussels, with a high-tech research centre at its feet: this inspiring setting is home to Living Tomorrow, an international organisation specialising in working in the future. Its ambition is to become nothing less than Europe's largest experimental laboratory. Located in...

Soon to be fifty hotels in Dubai, ten or so openings planned in Qatar, a boom in its luxury brands in Saudi Arabia: the Marriott group is continuing to expand its presence in the Middle East. The American hotelier is preparing to add 5,000 rooms by the end of 2023, with around twenty establishments in the pipeline. As the...

While Accor occupies a key position in Poland thanks to Orbis, a subsidiary of AccorInvest which owns more than 70 hotels in the country and in Central Europe, Radisson is also nurturing strong ambitions there. "Poland is an important market for our growth strategy in Europe," says Elie Younes, Director of Global Development...

In its European growth strategy, which recently included Rome and Barcelona and will soon include Brussels and Berlin, The Hoxton is not forgetting its home city of London. The lifestyle brand, associated with the Accor group in the Ennismore joint venture, will be opening a fourth address in the British capital from the beginning of December...

This is undoubtedly one of the most important openings in Europe this year. The Sommerro opened its doors on 1 September in Oslo and has immediately established itself as a benchmark for lifestyle and top-of-the-range hotels. This new property from the Nordic Hotels group revisits the former head office of Oslo Lysverker, the capital's main electricity company...

Kuwait City is adding to its luxury hotel offering with the opening of a Waldorf Astoria, joining the Four Seasons and St. Regis already present in the emirate's capital. Located a 15-minute drive from the international airport and linked to one of the country's largest malls, The Avenues, the establishment is part of an environment conducive to...

The French hotel industry's excellent summer was long overdue. Already in 2020 and 2021, the summer period had come as a relief to professionals - with the exception of Parisian hoteliers - mired in an unprecedented health crisis. And with the absence of border restrictions and the return of foreign customers, particularly from North America, the situation could not have been worse...

A change of name, but above all a move upmarket for the Radisson group in Turkey. Its former Radisson Blu Vadistanbul hotel has been upgraded to Radisson Collection, its rapidly expanding luxury brand. "We are proud to strengthen our presence in Istanbul (...) with the ambition of becoming the largest operator...

Tel Aviv's popularity in Israel is at its zenith, if the proliferation of airlines and hotels in the city is anything to go by. This development is largely due to the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Israel since 2020. Diplomacy has led to the launch of...

MICE activity, new organisation and, of course, CSR, lifestyle and bleisure: the tenth edition of the Global Meeting Exchange (GME) gave Accor management the opportunity to take stock of the major current trends. The French group's key meeting with buyers and event organisers took place from 19 to 21 September...

It's late afternoon and Istanbul's trendy young people are frequenting the old warehouses in the Tersane district, which is hosting a contemporary art exhibition. While the DJs jam to their consoles, visitors admire and buy the works of art. Unless, of course, they are simply watching the sun set over the Golden Horn...

Their leaning, unstructured, almost ramshackle forms stand out from the centre of Paris all the way to the ring road on the edge of which they have risen. The Duo towers, designed by Jean Nouvel and boasting the most demanding environmental labels, offer the 13th arrondissement a new architectural signature in dialogue with the neighbouring BNF. "Like two balancing dancers"...

Banque Scalbert-Dupont was one of Northern France's historic financial institutions before it was nationalised and then incorporated into the CIC network in the 1980s. Its former head office, which is part of Lille's heritage and was built in the late 1920s by local architect Jean Delrue, is about to change function. The...

The Hilton group has just passed the milestone of 100 hotels in Turkey, both in operation and planned. This comes more than 65 years after the opening of its first hotel outside the United States, the Istanbul Hilton, now renamed the Istanbul Bosphorus. The American group already has 25 hotels in Turkey's main metropolis...

While the United States has just lifted the last of its health restrictions by dropping the requirement for a negative test on entry to the country, travellers to New York will find the hotel scene in full swing. Of course, the pandemic has been fatal to some of the city's flagship establishments, such as the Gramercy...

With more than 7,000 hotels worldwide, most of them in the US market, Choice Hotels is to strengthen its position of strength across the Atlantic by taking over the franchise activities and operations of Radisson Hotel Group Americas. This entity, separate from the Radisson Hotel Group whose geographical scope extends over the EMEA and Americas regions,...

Hotel groups are loving the round numbers this year. While Marriott, the world's leading group, passed the 8,000 hotels worldwide mark last March, IHG Hotels & Resorts has just reached the 6,000 mark. This milestone was duly celebrated on the New York Stock Exchange, where the...

The big names in the hotel industry like to play musical chairs. While a JW Marriott hotel recently opened in Sao Paulo within the walls of a former Four Seasons, the legendary Danieli hotel in Venice is preparing to go the other way. Now part of another of the Marriott group's brands, the Luxury Collection, the Danieli will be...