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Set to open on 18 December, the Four Seasons Bangkok will round off a year rich in new openings for the Canadian group. Designed by Jean-Michel Gathy, this hotel overlooking the Chao Phraya River will add to the brand's arrival in Madrid, within seven luxuriously transformed historic buildings, and the addition of a second...

The Andaz brand is ready to make its appearance in Lisbon and Prague, and Park Hyatt and Hyatt Regency are expected in London: the American group has already unveiled several of these future openings. More generally, it has just outlined its expansion plan in Europe, with around twenty establishments to be added by 2023 to the 63...

While the Geneva hotel industry has been particularly hard hit by the consequences of the pandemic, as evidenced by the closure of one of the city's historic flagships, Le Richemond, a new hotel is preparing to enter the market. Expected to open next spring, The Woodward will add to the Oetker Collection, which already boasts...

Just 150 years after the Olympia London was built in 1873, the convention centre will soon be welcoming a new roommate: the citizenM London Olympia hotel, the lifestyle brand's fifth representative in the British capital. The brand, which was launched in Amsterdam in 2008, has just made official this major new project in the business travel segment, with the...

As a seasoned professional, how do you view the current crisis and its consequences? Marie-Béatrice Lallemand - There are always opportunities in crises. This catastrophic period for the tourism industry is forcing us to review our models, to refocus on our customers and our employees, to think things through...

This is an important announcement for the Hyatt group, as this development was one of its priorities. Its luxury Park Hyatt brand is due to open in London in 2022, thus completing its network of major cities around the world after Chicago, New York, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Beijing and Shanghai among others, not forgetting Tokyo, where the hotel was...

Lifestyle über alles. Accor had already made contemporary and design hotels its main focus. The French group has made no secret of its ambitions for growth in this buoyant segment for travellers. This strategy took the form of investments in innovative brands such as Mama Shelter, 25hours and 21c Museum Hotels, as well as a stake in the...

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...