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The Spanish group Meliá Hotels International took advantage of the virtual version of the ILTM international travel fair to present the development of its luxury offer in the business, lifestyle and resort segments. Among these, the Gran Melia brand will be setting up a new benchmark establishment in Milan in 2023, taking its place in a...

Already ardently supported, notably by supporters of the flygskam movement, the sustainable dimension of travel is undoubtedly taking on new importance with the current pandemic. "We've had a host of conversations with meeting organisers, members of our I Prefer loyalty programme, specialist travel advisers, and experts...

A top destination for business travellers and a brand renowned in the upmarket hotel segment: the marriage between So/ and Moscow was inevitable. It will be celebrated in 2023, with the inauguration of the SO/Moscow in the Dorogomilovo district, just two minutes from Kutuzov Avenue, five years after...

We'll have to wait until 2025 to discover this new luxury hotel being planned on the Côte d'Azur. But already, its developer, the Fondimmo property group, has announced its intention to make it nothing less than a national and international benchmark. Its project has just won the competition launched by the SNCF to build a new luxury...

The group has just added an airport hotel with a vast conference centre to its African offering: the Radisson Hotel & Convention Centre, Johannesburg, O.R. Tambo. A ten-minute drive from the hub of the South African metropolis, the hotel is located in the Bredell district, close to several shopping malls, cafés and restaurants,...

The largest Sofitel hotel in the Middle East and Africa region has opened its doors in Dubai. With its slender architecture inspired by the obelisk in Place de la Concorde, Sofitel Dubai The Obelisk dominates the Wafi shopping complex and completes its lifestyle and entertainment offer. Just ten minutes from the international airport,...

Donald Trump or Joe Biden can always console themselves with defeat by having a cocktail in the rooftop bar with a breathtaking view of the Capitol at CitizenM in Washington. Opened in mid-October, the new establishment, like all the hotels in the inventive Dutch chain, cultivates a design and arty feel, with...

Patience and time are undoubtedly the two lifebloods of hotel development. The Steigenberger Airport Hotel Berlin, ready since 2012 and the scheduled opening of the German capital's new airport, has had to wait, postponement after postponement, for the official inauguration of Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) before opening its doors. "We are delighted...

The Hôtel du Louvre reopened in summer 2019 after several years of renovation work. Why such a long renovation? Fanny Guibouret - It was supposed to start in 2014-2015 in order to convert the hotel to our contemporary Andaz brand. But after just a few months of work, we realised that there was a soul in the hotel, that its...

Following in the footsteps of Marriott with the Autograph Collection, Hyatt with the Unbound Collection and Accor with MGallery, the Radisson group is to launch Radisson Individuals, a brand designed to accommodate independent hotels with character, as well as local and regional chains. Two hotels in the UK have already announced that they will be joining the brand, the Henrietta...

The Unbound Collection by Hyatt brand is expanding its offering in Northern Europe with the addition of one of Stockholm's historic hotels, Hotell Reisen. Its 144 rooms will be available for booking from 1 December 2020 on the Hyatt website, but the hotel, located in the heart of the Old Town, will not officially make its debut until...

Getting there TGV EstThe SNCF operates six direct daily services between Paris Gare de l'Est and Luxembourg City, with a journey time of 2 hours 15 minutes.Internet: www.oui.sncf PlaneLUXAIR offers four daily services between Paris CDG 2G and Luxembourg airport, from Monday to Sunday. The Luxembourg national airline also serves Montpellier, Nantes and Nice.Internet: www.luxair.lu Hotels SOFITEL LUXEMBOURG LE...

The curfew imposed in nine French cities is shedding new light on the hotel concept of staycation. This is particularly the case in Paris, where luxury establishments, particularly affected by the absence of international travellers, are turning to local customers to invite them to enjoy their evenings out...

Marrakech's famous luxury hotel La Mamounia will be welcoming guests back from 16 October after several months of renovation work designed to bring the hotel into line with the times "while preserving the charm and heritage of this 95-year-old house", according to Pierre Jochem, the hotel's general manager....

Upmarket and sophisticated, the Kimpton brand is continuing to expand within the IHG group. Bought by the British hotelier in 2015 to strengthen its lifestyle offering, the trendy brand born in the United States has 34 projects in its pipeline, which will be added in the next three to five years to the 72 establishments already open across the...

After adding a second address in Tokyo over the summer, Four Seasons is also doubling its offering in San Francisco. On 1 October, the luxury group opened the doors of the Four Seasons San Francisco at Embarcadero at the junction of Sansome and California streets, in the Financial District. Not far from the first Four...

The charm of boutique hotels, the energy of the city, a sustainable dimension with, for example, mattresses and bed linen made from 100% recycled materials: the voco brand is living with the times. Launched by the IHG group in 2018, this upmarket brand is now taking off with its first hotel in France, in Paris....

After Zürich last year, CitizenM has now arrived in Switzerland's other major financial centre, Geneva. This new hotel is the second to be opened by the Dutch brand in 2020, after the one in Seattle South Lake Union and before the one in Washington DC, expected by the end of the year, and another planned near the Champs-Elysées in Paris....

Open since 1 September, the Athens Capital Hotel marks the arrival in Greece of the Accor MGallery brand. This collection, which includes around a hundred boutique hotels with strong personalities around the world, such as the Molitor in Paris or the Santa Teresa in Rio, is being established in the heart of Athens, on Syntagma Square, thanks to the...

Paris's top-of-the-range hotels are back in business after months of closure. While some hotels took the gamble of reopening their doors at the start of the summer, such as the Hôtel Fauchon on 1 July and the Hilton Opéra on 10 July, most of the four and five-star establishments kept their doors open...