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Already partnered with Rafael Nadal for the joint development of the Zel brand, the Meliá hotel group is welcoming another sports star to its team. From the yellow ball to the round ball, this choice recruit is none other than Lionel Messi. A legacy of his many years with Barça, the...

The beginnings of a beginning. The Hilton Group is expanding its lifestyle offering with a new brand collection called Outset. Literally 'the beginning'. But Outset is only the latest addition to the group's offensive in the contemporary hotel sector and its 'light' brands, the 'soft brands' designed to attract new customers to its fold.

The debut of a new collection. The Onomo Group, one of the leading players in the pan-African hotel industry, has chosen Casablanca to launch its Onomo Collection range of premium boutique hotels. A year after the launch of the lifestyle hotel Onomo Allure, the opening of the hotel Le Square opens a new page in the development of this group...

The 10,000 hotel mark is within sight for the Hilton group. With three new hotels opening every day, the American hotel group has gone from 8,000 to 9,000 establishments in the space of a year. And there's no doubt that it will be able to keep up this pace of growth in the weeks and months to come, to reach more than...

IHG Hotels & Resorts is setting out its ambitions for voco in Southern Europe. The hotel group has just announced nine contracts for future openings, bringing its European network to 35 properties in operation and 22 under development. "We are delighted to see voco continue its impressive growth," commented Eric Viale, President of IHG Hotels & Resorts.

The Best Western network has added nine new establishments in France since the start of 2025, while a number of new openings are scheduled for the second half of the year, with three new hotels due to open in the coming weeks. This expansion covers the whole of France, from Brittany to the Côte d'Azur, and...

The end of 2025 is shaping up to be as busy as ever for the Hilton Group. Among the major openings is the recent opening of the Conrad Hamburg, part of the historic Levantehaus building dating from 1910. This 283-room hotel is located on one of the German city's main commercial thoroughfares and, in addition to the...

Give back to your city what it has given you. After rehabilitating the old port of Genoa to mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America by another famous Genoese, Christopher Columbus, in 1992, architect Renzo Piano is continuing to redesign the seafront of his native city through a...

Ready just in time for the Women's World Cup Final. On 27 September, the "temple of rugby" - London's Twickenham Stadium, now named the Allianz Stadium - will see the two best teams enter this legendary venue. While the match could break a record...

All 73 rooms at the Hotel Belinda are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, with balconies overlooking a quiet street in the 16th arrondissement. Particularly the Magnolias suite, perched at the top of the hotel, with its 30m² private terrace, deckchairs, Nordic bath and view of the Eiffel Tower. Add to that the name of the...

To you, to me. While the Crowne Plaza Corum in Montpellier has recently been rebranded as a Radisson Blu, the Radisson Blu in Marne-la-Vallée is about to experience the opposite fate. The IHG group has just announced that it is to take over the hotel, in partnership with Danish property company Proark, and transform it into the Crowne Plaza...

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of its world headquarters in Brussels, the Radisson group is adding a choice address in the Belgian capital: the Radisson Collection The National Hotel. Succeeding the Radisson Collection Grand Place Brussels, due to open in 2020, this second hotel from the luxury brand is moving away from the city centre...

The golden eagle is still enthroned at the very top of the façade, dominating this large modernist building that stands in stark contrast to the Georgian mansions surrounding Grosvenor Square. Restored and made of aluminium from a B-52 bomber by Theodore Roszak, the sculpture is a reminder that, from 1960 to 2017, the building was the American representation in London before it was moved...

With the reopening of the Cour des Loges in Lyon as the Radisson Collection, new hotels in Montpellier and Reims, and the addition of the Relais de la Malmaison in the Paris region, the Radisson group has already expanded its portfolio of hotels in France in recent months. This expansion will continue in the coming years...

"We never imagined that the brand would travel so far". When he opened the first Mama Shelter in Paris in 2008, Serge Trigano, the co-founder of the brand, probably never imagined that his lifestyle and offbeat brand would expand to such an extent. Twenty or so hotels later - as well as becoming part of the...

A gentle wake-up call for a venerable centenarian. A century after the opening of the first Hilton in Dallas in 1925, following Conrad Hilton's career debut six years earlier with the purchase of a hotel in Cusco, Texas, this most famous brand in the world of travel intends to give itself a new lease of life....

Lifestyle hotels: a buoyant segment in the eyes of travellers... but also investors? Accor could one day prove the point by listing its nugget Ennismore, the parent company of brands such as Mama Shelter, The Hoxton, 25Hours and Mondrian, as well as the hotel chain..., on the New York stock exchange.

The Park Hyatt brand is taking a more elevated position in the world of luxury hotels by passing the 50-hotel mark worldwide. Its latest hotel, which opened at the beginning of August, dominates the whole of Kuala Lumpur, housed in the tallest skyscraper in the whole of the city.

Is it the new voco Malta hotel in the seaside resort of St. Julian's, or the luxurious Kimpton Mas Olas resort in Mexico, recently opened just outside Los Cabos? Or how about the Holiday Inn Kyoto Gojo, marking the return of one of IHG's flagship brands to this historic city? The 183-room Holiday Inn Kyoto Gojo...

Dusit International, probably Thailand's largest hotel group with global operations, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with SYDEL, a French property investment company. The agreement covers the creation of Dusit France, a joint venture that will launch the Dusit brand in France. It will focus on identifying opportunities for Dusit Hotels and...