top-of-the-range hotels

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...

FirstName. To launch its hotel brand, the French group Alboran has chosen a simple name with international appeal. A name that evokes the first name - the primary piece of information on border crossing forms - as much as it augurs personalised hospitality. But there's no need to rush to discover this new top-of-the-range brand with a "feel...

No one can bet that the French team will retain their title of world football champions. But one thing is certain, as the competition draws to a close in Qatar at the end of the year, visitors to the emirate will find little hints of France. Particularly at the heart of a vast luxury complex named after the chic...

One by one, the voco brand is completing its network of the world's major cities. After Doha, Seoul and Johannesburg in recent months, as well as Milan, the contemporary brand of the IHG group has added new addresses around the world, starting with a new establishment in Italy, in Venice. Comprising top-of-the-range hotels with...

As the MICE world gathers in Frankfurt these days for the IMEX trade fair, the Marriott group has unveiled a new establishment for its JW Marriott luxury brand, marking the brand's debut in Germany. Following recent openings in Sao Paulo and Istanbul, and already well-established in South America, the...

The luxurious Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor and the Novotel Budapest Centrum may not target the same clientele, but they share a rich past, the Accor group as chaperone and, above all, the same recent history. Closed for extensive refurbishment work, they have seen little or none of the dark days...

London's luxury hotel industry is gearing up for a busy end to the year. While a prestigious Raffles is expected to open in the historic Old War Office, Mandarin Oriental will be adding a second address in the British capital this winter. Already established in Knightsbridge with the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, the Asian brand will be moving into another...

We will therefore have to wait until 2025 to see Fairmont take its first steps on the Japanese market. The Fairmont Tokyo project was unveiled by the Accor group at the end of May. While information about this first establishment remains sketchy, we do know that it will be a 219-key address. These will be located on the upper floors...

A pioneer in the lifestyle movement that is taking a leading role in the global hotel industry, the W brand is stepping up its expansion in Europe. Following the opening of a hotel in Rome at the end of last year, housed in two nineteenth-century palaces near the Spanish Steps that have been given a contemporary makeover, Marriott International has announced the...

The Andaz Condesa Mexico City hotel will soon be the second representative of the Hyatt group's luxury and lifestyle brand on the Mexican market after Mayakoba, and therefore the first in this top business destination: Mexico City. The result of a management agreement with Grupo Murano, the hotel will be located in the trendy Condesa district, in the...

The Radisson Group, in turn, is part of the large-scale expansion of contemporary design hotels, with lively lobbies and trendy restaurants and bars. In short, everyone will recognise the contours of the lifestyle hotel industry. Already present in this buoyant niche with the fast-growing Radisson RED brand, the hotelier had announced the opening of...

JW Marriott is continuing to expand in the world's major cities. By 2025, the American group's premium brand has announced its intention to open a hotel in Tokyo, with 200 rooms and a MICE area of almost 1,000 m2. The hotel will be located in a new building complex, the result of the redevelopment of the former railway depot...

After Porto in May 2021, Lisbon will soon have a Yotel establishment. Known for its innovative hotels, combining small, high-tech rooms with designer communal areas, the brand initially developed in airport areas is continuing its urban expansion. After Geneva and London this year, Yotel will be setting up in the Portuguese capital in 2024, with a...