top-of-the-range hotels

Like a long ship floating above the Rhône, Lyon's Hôtel-Dieu is today beginning a new life with the official opening of the Intercontinental. The 5-star hotel has taken over the 360-metre façade and 18th-century dome designed by Soufflot, the architect of the Pantheon in Paris. Over a period of six years, the project gave rise to...

What remains of the former Pullman Abidjan after this extensive renovation? François Cernejeski - The renovation of the Pullman Abidjan hotel began in July 2016. Initially, the project mainly concerned the rooms. The hotel was closed from 14 March 2017, before reopening at the end of 2018. To tell the truth, it...

After having to close its doors for twenty months and more than two years of renovation work, the Pullman Abidjan hotel is clearly intent on making up for lost time. Cultural and festive events have been taking place at a frenetic pace since the hotel reopened. And you'll be surprised to see the Plateau come alive at last, to a tune rarely heard before...

At a time when the major telephony players and telecoms operators are planning to roll out the 5G standard, Huawei, one of the most ambitious in this field, is launching the first fully 5G-equipped hotel in partnership with Shenzhen Telecom and the InterContinental Shenzhen. The hotel has begun deploying this technology, which enables ultra-fast downloads and...

The Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese will reopen its doors on 1 July following major renovation work by Jean-Philippe Nuel, in a spirit that blends Italian-style dolce vita with contemporary French art de vivre. Situated in a quiet street in the centre of Rome, close to Via Veneto and...

Following the inauguration of its first hotel in Paris in September 2018, Fauchon Hospitality will open a second establishment in Kyoto in 2020. Through its boutiques, cafés and bakeries, the brand has been present in Japan for 47 years. Building on its already well-established reputation, the luxury brand will set up in the heart of the former imperial capital, in...

The Ascott Limited group is to roll out its top-of-the-range Ascott brand in Europe, with a residence due to open in Frankfurt's business district at the end of 2022. Until now, the world leader in extended-stay hotels has relied mainly on its mid-range Citadines brand, as well as on the luxury Crest Collection with a third establishment...

The acquisition of Fairmont, Raffles and Mövenpick, partnerships with SBE, Rixos and Banyan Tree, the development of Sofitel and Pullman: for the past three years, Accor has made no secret of its ambitions in the luxury and top-of-the-range hotel sector. As a mirror image of this strategy, the French group intends to use these prestigious establishments to consolidate its position...

It all began in 1924, just after the Great War, when Seattle was gaining notoriety, thanks in part to its port, which had become the second largest in the United States after New York. As a result, travellers flocked to the city, but they lacked a prestigious address. It was the Olympic Hotel that marked the beginning of the boom...

An increasingly diversified portfolio of brands: Best Western is putting this new commitment into practice in a number of ways. Firstly, in the budget segment, the group of independent hotels has launched the Sure Hotel by Best Western brand licence. The hotelier has also strengthened its lifestyle offering with its new Sadie brands in the top end of the market...

The Peninsula Paris, the brand's tenth hotel, will celebrate its fifth anniversary in August. How is the hotel positioning itself on the Paris hotel scene? Anne Dugenetay - The hotel has found its place in the luxury hotel industry, even if its beginnings were thwarted by the attacks that hit Paris in 2015. When...

Breaking down barriers and making the lobby a real place to live: this desire, which is increasingly shared by hoteliers, has been given concrete expression within the Pullman brand through The Junction concept. First introduced last year at the Pullman Bangkok King Power, it is now being offered for the first time in Europe at the Pullman Paris Centre-Bercy and...

And yet the French hotel industry is still going strong. In a turbulent social climate, it even broke records in 2018. Strikes at SNCF and Air France in the spring, the yellow waistcoat movement at the end of the year: all these factors did not prevent the industry from posting clear growth in revenue per room (+6.4 1TP3Q) according to the...

The IHG Group is continuing to expand in the luxury hotel sector. After acquiring a 51 % stake in Regent Hotels last year and the lifestyle brand Kimpton in 2014, the British hotelier has announced the purchase of Six Senses, one of the leading brands in chic wellness resorts. Sold by Pegasus Capital Advisor for 300 million euros, the...

After Kuala Lumpur and Sao Paulo in 2018, luxury group Four Seasons is continuing to expand its offering in a number of major business cities. Of the nine hotels to open this year, only three are authentic resorts, with a new establishment in Napa Valley, within a wine estate, and another in Mexico,...

You're opening La Clef Champs Elysées. Does this third prestigious establishment in Paris embody the spirit of your Crest Collection brand? Yes, it really is the new flagship of this luxurious collection, a little jewel set in a beautiful Haussmann-style residence (see article). This residence of just 70 rooms and suites enjoys a prime location in the...

AccorHotels has just unveiled its first Orient Express hotel project since the hotel group and SNCF entered into a partnership in 2017 to develop this new prestige brand. And, coincidentally, this comes just a few days after LVMH announced that it was buying Belmond, the former Orient Express group which...

"They share experiences and unforgettable memories. No pollution, no cars; the calm, the cold and the winter sun... All this means that the participants are really relaxed," says Fanny Dunand, MICE sales manager for Hôtels d'en haut, a group which runs four establishments at altitude: the Alpaga in Megève, the...

LVMH is expanding its presence in the luxury hotel sector, which until now has been limited to the Cheval Blanc houses - in Courchevel, Saint Tropez, Saint Barthélémy and the Maldives, and now Paris, in the former Samaritaine - as well as the six hotels developed by its Bulgari jewellery brand. A world leader in the luxury goods sector, the French group has...

A sculpture of Big Ben transformed into a rocket in the middle of the lobby, rooms with a punk and street art feel, a pub in flashy colours, the impudent gaze of Henry VIII contemplating travellers on the bathroom wall: the future London nhow due to open its doors next summer is playing with icons...