top-of-the-range hotels

Do your new hotels in the Middle East and North Africa target business travellers or are they more leisure-oriented? Simon Casson - Our new hotels - those recently opened in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Kuwait, and the one soon to be inaugurated in Tunis - are located in very dynamic cities and cater for a wide range of...

Mandarin Oriental had once planned to open in the CCTV Tower, designed by Rem Koolhaas, but it burnt down in 2009. In the end, the brand's first representative in Beijing will be inaugurated in the historic Qianmen district. The hotel will play on the characteristic style of the hutongs, the narrow streets of old Beijing,...

The Ritz-Carlton Hôtel de la Paix - renovated at a cost of several million euros - has 74 rooms, including 14 suites, that are both elegant and modern, with views of Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc in the distance. Geneva's emblematic hotel has a modular meeting and conference space that can accommodate up to...

A five-star hotel alongside a youth hostel in the same building complex: at first sight, the association may seem surprising. But it bears witness to a very contemporary meeting of minds between the luxury brand 1 Hotels, with its very green and natural inspiration, and Slo Living, a sophisticated youth hostel concept born in Lyon. This innovative complex...

It was almost a year behind schedule, but it's finally here. In mid-May, Bangkok's latest luxury hotel opened its doors. Located within the Central Embassy luxury boutique complex, the Park Hyatt will redefine the standards of luxury in Bangkok.

The Hôtel Martinez is always one of the glamorous landmarks of the Cannes Film Festival, the one that graces the pages of the celebrity magazines with its host of stars. To mark the 70th edition of the film festival, the Croisette hotel, which became a Grand Hyatt in 2013, is raising the...

For its thirtieth anniversary, Hotel Nikko San Francisco has spoiled itself. Part of the Preferred Hotels & Resorts Lifestyle Collection, the hotel has just completed a $60 million (just over €56 million) renovation programme to modernise the entire building. Located in the heart of San Francisco,...

AccorHotels is continuing its policy of forging closer links in the luxury hotel sector. Following the collaboration announced last December with Banyan Tree for the co-development and management of the company's top-of-the-range resorts, the French group has entered into a strategic partnership with the Turkish hotelier Rixos. This agreement is in the same vein as the one...

Four Seasons now has a second London hotel, adding to the luxury Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane. This time, it's not the edge of Hyde Park that welcomes the Canadian group, but the City's business district. Housed in a listed building - the former headquarters of the Port of London Authority which...

Creating collections for independent hotels is one of the major trends in the hotel industry. Marriott's Autograph, Hyatt's Unbound and Starwood's Tribute are just some of the 'light' brands that have appeared in recent years. Hilton Worldwide has also positioned itself in this segment, launching Curio in 2014...

It's been expected since the Hyatt Group took over the hotel in 2013, but now it's official: the Hôtel du Louvre will be undergoing a 15-month renovation programme designed to restore the Parisian hotel to its former glory. Originally commissioned by Napoleon III in 1855, the hotel was one of the first "grand hotels" in...

A renaissance rather than a renovation: this is how the Peninsula group describes the profound transformation of its Beijing hotel, opened in 1989 close to the Forbidden City. More than 120 million dollars and almost two years have been spent restoring the prestige of this "grande dame", which...

An ode to Velasquez. Opened in July in the centre of Madrid, the Gran Melia Palacio de Los Duques celebrates the memory of the great Spanish court painter in its own way. In its suites and public areas, the luxury hotel features revisited reproductions of Velasquez's works, including the most famous...

Celebrating the romantic era of fine travel, that of the 1970s, when Air France launched its Le Méridien hotel chain: the Starwood group, which acquired this brand ten years ago, has decided to give it back the sophisticated spirit of its origins. The new positioning, which has already been adopted by two thirds of the 104...

A turning point in its history. That's how Warwick Hotels International describes its name change to Warwick Hotels & Resorts, combined with a new visual identity that shifts from beige and burgundy to a contemporary cameo of purple, black, white and gold. The logo -...