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Lifestyle, luxury and a host of new destinations: 2022 is shaping up to be another productive year for the Accor group, despite business still being affected by the consequences of the pandemic. "With more than 300 hotels and resorts ready to open this year, our many loyal customers around the world are...

Luxury, tropical vegetation galore, art and design, exclusive event spaces: Rosewood, owner of the Crillon in Paris, is marking its arrival in São Paulo in style. The luxury brand has set up shop in the heart of Brazil's main business metropolis, close to Avenida Paulista. And yet...

With the fifth wave sweeping across France and Europe, how do you see 2022? Eric Viale - I'm approaching this year with cautious optimism, but with confidence. The good thing is that we now have the lessons to learn and the best practices to apply, in addition to scientific advances and vaccination efforts. We have...

After recently opening in Milan and Seville, the Radisson Collection has just arrived in Berlin, in the heart of the Mitte district. To make its debut in the German capital, Radisson's luxury brand has taken up residence in one of the group's existing hotels, famous in particular for its AquaDom, an immense cylindrical aquarium rising from the...

Marriott has announced that it expects to open a JW Marriott in Sao Paulo in the second quarter of 2022. Located along the Avenida Nações Unidas, within the LEED-certified Parque da Cidade complex, this future luxury hotel will replace another, as it will take up residence within the walls of the former Four Seasons, which opened in 2018...

It will undoubtedly be some time before business travellers can enjoy the luxury of the new Mandarin Oriental, which opens in Shenzhen on 20 January, as business travel in China is still complex. Nevertheless, the luxury group has made the journey from its headquarters in Hong Kong...

The coming months will see the arrival in South-East Asia of the affordable lifestyle brand Tribe from Accor, as well as the luxurious Vignette Collection from IHG. As part of the global roll-out of these new brands, the Tribe brand will open in Cambodia next February with the opening of the Tribe...

Portugal remains one of Europe's most popular destinations for both leisure and business travellers. In fact, the country benefited from the authorities' relative flexibility in welcoming international visitors during the Covid pandemic. It has also benefited from the transfer of leisure travellers to the destination with the closure of destinations...

Or how to start the year on the right foot. On 1 January, the Hilton Group inaugurated a new luxury hotel under the Conrad brand right in the heart of Shanghai. Located in Puxi, the historic waterfront of the Chinese megalopolis, the hotel is housed in a 66-storey tower overlooking People's Square....

There is no doubt that the world's leading hotels are increasingly turning their attention to top-of-the-range establishments, seeking to attract them into their fold through their collections, including the latest Emblems at Accor and Vignette at IHG. However, despite this new competition, the Preferred Hotels group, which has long been positioned in this segment, is still...

"It was with great pleasure that Sébastien Bazin and I welcomed our first customer this morning to the opening of the new Pullman Paris Montparnasse": Maud Bailly, Accor's Managing Director for Southern Europe, announced on LinkedIn on 27 December the completion of a long and vast project that began at the end of...

With the Olympic Games looming in Beijing, Shangri-La is already on the starting line. The hotel group has just inaugurated a new address in the Chinese capital, a stone's throw from the site that will host the snowboarding events next February. In addition to this 'Olympic' location, the Shangri-La Shougang...

After Madrid at the start of last summer and Paris at the beginning of September, the Tapestry Collection by Hilton brand is continuing its expansion in major European cities with the announcement of a hotel due to open early next year in Rome. Still in the renovation phase, the Cosmopolita Rome will offer 76 rooms once completed, as well as a rooftop...

2022 is fast approaching, a key year for Qatar as it will culminate in a major event for the country's brand image and its tourism sector: the hosting of the Football World Cup in November and December. The country is preparing for this with a host of large-scale projects - new hotels and...

After conquering a number of destinations in 2021, including Las Vegas, Kyoto, Seattle and the Seychelles, the Hilton Group's luxury brands - Conrad, LXR Hotels and Waldorf Astoria - will be enjoying a prolific 2022, with new hotels opening in a number of markets. Waldorf Astoria, for example, will be opening a new resort in Cancun, Mexico, which...

Like other groups present at the ILTM trade show in Cannes, Hyatt presented its plans for the luxury hotel sector. The American group, which is already well positioned in this niche with its Park Hyatt, Andaz and Unbound Collection brands, its Alila resorts and its lifestyle brands such as Thompson Hotels and Destination by Hyatt, intends to strengthen its offering and will open 24...

Emblems Collection at Accor, Vignette Collection at IHG or Melià Collection among the latest additions: there's a lot of talk about collections in the hotel industry. It's a chic word, with a touch of fashion and a whiff of the exceptional. But there's one that's more cultural, more Gallimard, Flammarion or Grasset than Dior or Chanel: the...

The International Luxury Travel Market trade show in Cannes gave American hotel groups the opportunity to present the new developments expected next year for their most prestigious brands. Marriott, whose number of luxury hotels exceeds the 450 mark, will be adding 30 new establishments to its offering, as part of a pipeline of...

Meliá Hotels International is no exception to the rule: every hotel group needs to have a collection of iconic luxury hotels in its portfolio. Accor, with the announcement of the Emblems Collection, and IHG, whose first Vignette establishments are starting to appear, have recently embarked on this path previously taken by Radisson, Hyatt, Hilton and Marriott....

There's no end to innovation in Dubai, or at Kempinski for that matter. In the emirate, the luxury hotelier was already offering some astonishing things, with around twenty chalets overlooking the region's only ski slope within the Mall of the Emirates complex. Now it's time for a floating palace...