top-of-the-range hotels

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...

With a presence on every continent and almost 550 hotels and resorts in 53 countries, the Thai group Minor Hotels has changed scale by taking over almost all the shares - 94.1 % - in NH Hotels. While the recent acquisition of the Spanish group does not change anything in practice for the moment, this investment of...

After Phnom Penh in Cambodia and Luang Prabang in Laos, Rosewood is preparing to inaugurate what should be one of the flagships of the Asian hotel industry in Rangoon, before moving on to Bangkok and Guangzhou in 2019. For several years, Beijing was the only place where the American luxury hotel chain Rosewood had a presence in Asia, and then it moved on to...

It's quite symbolic: for its return to Athens after a five-year absence, Marriott has taken up residence in the former Metropolitan, and above all opposite the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. This new temple to culture, designed by Renzo Piano and inaugurated two years ago, embodies the renewed optimism in the country, which is...

With the recent opening of a hotel in Bordeaux, its 13th in France, Radisson Blu is one of the key players in the upmarket and seminar segment, with Pullman as its main competitor. And there's more to come, as the group aims to have a total of 25 hotels in France by 2022, whether for Radisson...

On a Friday evening, the cars speed along Sanlitun Road. Ultra-fashionable young people are being dropped off in front of the new restaurants opening one after the other in the most sought-after district of the moment. This is the epicentre of modern Beijing, where the InterContinental Sanlitun opened at the end of 2016, in an extravagant tower looking...

It's been in the making ever since Marriott International acquired Starwood Hotels in 2016: the loyalty programmes of these two major groups have now become one. Bringing together the millions of members of Starwood Preferred Guest and Marriott Rewards was even one of the main reasons for this mega-acquisition, in order to effectively combat...

With its beautiful resorts established in the middle of a tea plantation in China, in the heart of a fort in India, at the top of the mountains of Oman, on the edge of the luxuriant beaches of the Maldives or Bali and more recently on the edge of the Pacific, at Big Sur in California, Alila has become the specialist in intimate and...