top-of-the-range hotels

Hilton is expanding its range of brands in Paris with its first Canopy hotel, a lifestyle brand that now has around thirty hotels worldwide. This move comes ahead of the arrival in the summer of another of the American group's brands, the Tapestry by Hilton collection, with the openings of the Belgrand Hôtel Paris Champs Elysées and the Hôtel Camille...

With the recent unveiling of Radisson Individuals and WorldHotels Crafted Collection, the hotel industry has two new examples of a trend that is now well established: 'light' brands. Most often christened 'collections' by hotel groups, these brands are both flexible enough to accommodate independent hotels keen to retain their own identity, and...

The Anantara luxury brand is becoming more urban and more European at the same time. Developed by the Thai group Minor Hotels, this brand was already well established in Asia and the Middle East, mainly with very fine resorts. But it is now taking advantage of the synergies made possible by its owner Minor's acquisition of the NH Hotels group to expand...

The hotel industry is continuing its efforts to offer travellers more and more ways of exercising while away from home. This 'fitness' trend was already well under way before the health crisis, but the repeated confinements have undoubtedly reinforced the need for everyone to exercise. According to the Louvre Hotels group, the...

Singaporean hotelier Pan Pacific is preparing to make a big splash in Europe by setting up shop in London at the end of next summer. The group now has around thirty hotels, mainly in Asia, but also in North America - in Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and the Whistler ski resort. And business travellers...

The InterContinental brand is preparing its arrival in Barcelona at the end of next summer. The IHG group is transforming the former Crowne Plaza Barcelona - Fira Center into a luxury hotel with a discreet and sophisticated aesthetic. It will also be a responsible hotel, as it will be awarded Biosphere certification as soon as it opens. Located in the...

Already one of the best represented groups in Australia, Accor is set to expand its offering in Melbourne with, among other things, a Mövenpick due to open in May. The brand's second Australian establishment after the one in Hobart, this future top-of-the-range hotel is located at the junction of two of the main thoroughfares in the capital of...

The pandemic has turned the Thai hotel market upside down. The country has over 750,000 hotel rooms. And year after year, the country has added new capacity. For the period 2020-2022, there are plans for 123 hotels representing more than 31,000 additional rooms. Will they all open? In the current climate, the question is...

Following the recent announcement of two openings in Scotland, the voco brand is confirming its global dynamism with a new development expected later this year in Australia, in the centre of Brisbane. Including the establishments already open and those in the development phase, the brand launched by IHG in 2018 has now passed the...

The German Ruby Hotels group is expanding its offering on its home turf. The lifestyle brand has just opened a new hotel in Frankfurt, adding to those in Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Munich, as well as in Vienna, to complement those already established in the German-speaking area. "Frankfurt, as a financial hub, is a prime location for Ruby, and an ideal place to...

The Radisson Blu Rouen Centre has opened in the heart of the city, not far from the train station and close to its famous cathedral and the pedestrian district that criss-crosses the historic centre of the Norman city. "With this opening, we are further strengthening our position as the leading international hotel group in the region, with 20...

Voco, the new contemporary brand from the IHG group, is doing double duty in Scotland. While the development of this upmarket brand has also turned towards France, with its first hotel in 2020 in Paris, near Montparnasse station, followed by another unveiled at the start of the year in Strasbourg, voco is now launching...

Rome, the sole object of their assent. Some of the finest names in luxury and lifestyle hotels have all made a date to visit the Italian capital. The latest announcement, and not the least, is that Accor will be bringing to life a project for the Orient Express, the legendary name used in partnership with the SNCF to develop exclusive hotels,...

In Hamburg, it will be no more and no less than the architectural counterpart to its emblematic concert hall designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron. The Elbphilarmonie, until now the flagship of the HafenCity urban project, will soon be joined by another focal point of this business district, the Elbtower. The future tallest building...

Unsurprisingly, the major hotel groups painted a very bleak picture when they presented their preliminary results for the past year. "The global hotel industry has gone through an unprecedented crisis", said Sébastien Bazin, CEO of Accor. "2020 has been the most difficult year in our 93-year history", according to Stéphanie Linnartz, who...

The Radisson group will be making its debut in Andorra in the third quarter of 2021 with a 180-room hotel located in the heart of Andorra la Vella. With numerous ski slopes nearby, and just a few minutes from the principality's capital shopping district and Caleda Spa, one of the largest thermal spas in Europe, the hotel will be a...

The InterContinental Bordeaux is also adapting to the growing popularity of digital and hybrid events. The five-star hotel recently inaugurated the Studio Grand Hôtel by Abaques, working with the audiovisual agency with offices in Toulouse, Paris and now Bordeaux, with which it has been collaborating for 13 years. With a capacity of six people, this new...

At its annual conference, In Extenso drew up a gloomy balance sheet for the French hotel industry as it prepared its accounts for 2020. Revenue per room (RevPAR), the industry's benchmark, has fallen by 55 % compared with 2019, a figure that sums up the hotels...

"A symbol of 21st century hospitality in one of the world's finest urban development projects": this is how Sheikh Nawaf bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani, Chairman of Katara Hospitality, described the spectacular Fairmont and Raffles hotel project due to open in Lusail, Qatar, in 2022, just one year before the...

It's no secret, given the multitude of recent announcements: Accor has made lifestyle and the very high end of the market the spearheads of its development. This strategy is being deployed around the world, but is also taking shape in Paris, where, paradoxically, the French group's luxury offering is...