top-of-the-range hotels

The lifestyle brand Ruby Hotels is continuing to expand, with two new hotels expected by 2023. Already boasting eight hotels based on the "lean luxury" concept of relaxed, affordable luxury, the German group intends to unveil seventeen new properties in Europe by this date. While the German group founded by Michael Struck already has a presence...

Old-world elegance and ultra-contemporary sophistication: opened in Warsaw in August, the Nobu Hotel Warsaw brings together two experiences in one place. With a classic spirit, one of its wings is housed in an Art Deco building dating from the 1920s, the former Rialto Hotel, while the other, newly built, seduces with its very contemporary lines....

The fruits of the partnership between Accor and the American group sbe, in which the French hotel operator has a 50 % stake (%), are beginning to materialise. After announcing in January the arrival of the Mondrian brand in Europe, in Bordeaux and Cannes, this lifestyle brand has just opened its first hotel in Asia-Pacific, in Seoul. Located in...

Barely open, already closed. A few months after its inauguration in June 2019, the InterContinental Lyon - Hôtel-Dieu was forced to suspend its activities due to a pandemic. We were going at 500 an hour and had to come to an abrupt halt," says Madelijn Vervoord, the hotel's general manager. The evening we were told we had to close...

The date for the reopening of the Hôtel Barrière Le Westminster in Le Touquet is now known. This jewel in the crown of the Hauts-de-France seaside resort will reopen its doors on 25 September following a major renovation programme which began in December last year. Although the work was initially scheduled to last six months, it has taken a little longer in...

One - the Radisson Hotel Istanbul Sultanahmet - is more intimate with its 28 rooms, historic ballroom and 19th-century Ottoman-French meeting room. The other, the Radisson Hotel President Beyazit, is more contemporary, with 201 rooms and suites in grey and beige tones, five bars...

We will have to wait until the end of 2023 to see Mandarin Oriental make its debut in Austria, one of Europe's leading business destinations, particularly for conferences. Regularly listed in the top 3 of the ICCA rankings, Vienna will then play host to the top-of-the-range hotel group, which plans to set up a hotel in the...

"The most luxurious hotel ever built in Rome". Jean-Christophe Babin, CEO of Bulgari, was full of praise when presenting the project for the jeweller's future establishment, expected in the Italian capital in 2022. Located opposite the Mausoleum of Augustus, not far from the Spanish Steps and the banks of the Tiber, the Bulgari Hotel Rome...

The Tribe family of hotels is about to grow. After a first establishment unveiled in March 2019 in Perth, Australia, the Accor group's new lifestyle brand is taking off with several openings expected in the coming months, notably in France. First and foremost, Paris will be the first city in Europe to offer the concept, with the...

Plexiglas protecting the reception area, masked staff, gloves for those carrying luggage: there's nothing very glamorous about the sanitary measures needed to combat the current pandemic, nor are they in line with luxury hotel standards. "It's a bit the antithesis of our hospitality business. And yet, if...

"To find out the dish of the day, scan the QR code". Adding to the multitude of functions it already fulfils, the smartphone is now being enriched with a new function, that of maître d'. While the cards and menus passed from hand to hand between diners could fall victim to the pandemic, the service should tend...

It's a welcome update at a time when, with Covid-19, the customer experience is becoming increasingly contactless. The Barrière group has just given its five-year-old application a facelift. The new version of the Barrière App, developed during the period of confinement,...

The Lodge & Spa Collection is getting ready to unveil its new jewel, the fourth from this group specialising in luxury mountain hotels. Accustomed to naming its establishments after the biggest diamonds in the world, such as Koh-I Nor in Val Thorens, Taj-I Mah in Arc 2000 and Daria-I Nor in...

How do you see a way out of the current crisis? D. L. C - This crisis is unprecedented for everyone. We are hearing catastrophic scenarios, with no prospect of recovery for two or three years. For my part, I remain calm. This is certainly a very serious crisis for the hotel industry, but any crisis...

2019 was an extremely positive year for Best Western, both globally and in France. On a global scale, the hotel group, which has 4035 hotels in total, including 417 new affiliates in 2019, saw sales generated by the central reservation system rise by 17.4 1TP3Q. In France, despite...

At the inauguration of the NH Collection Mexico City Reforma hotel over three years ago, the group's management loudly proclaimed its ambitions for the American market. These ambitions were to be based in particular on the strengths of its top-of-the-range brand, NH Collection, to win over business customers in particular. Since then,...

Is there a trend driving your approach to design today? Tristan Auer - The trend is the non-trend. Or if there is a trend, you absolutely have to avoid it. That's how we end up with buildings and atmospheres that all look the same, whereas when you travel to Bangkok, Milan or anywhere else, you don't get any...

Following on from the Nolinski on the Avenue de l'Opéra, the Brach near the Trocadéro and more recently the Sinner in the Marais district, the Evok group has taken over the former Hôtel de Montbrun, adding a touch of 1970s design to its listed 17th-century walls. With high ceilings, painted beams and period terracotta floors, architects Lecoadic...

1 place du Capitole: a prime address for a business trip to Toulouse. This is the home of the Grand Hôtel de l'Opéra, the emblematic establishment in the Pink City, which has just joined the BW Premier Collection. Best Western has thus added a particularly strategic addition to the catalogue of its "soft brand"....

The Centro Canalejas complex, just a stone's throw from Madrid's Puerta del Sol, has taken seven years to meticulously transform and renovate seven historic buildings with façades in Renaissance, Art Deco and eclectic styles. It has taken its time to breathe new life into a group of prestigious buildings dating from the late 21st and early 20th centuries, which once housed...