top-of-the-range hotels

From the very top of the range to the more festive: Budapest is welcoming two new hotels with opposite positioning. On the one hand, there is a Radisson Collection and a new Jo&Joe, the Accor brand inspired by new generation youth hostels. On the luxury side, the long-awaited Radisson Collection Hotel, Basilica Budapest, has taken up residence...

Business is still buoyant, with results boosted by the lifestyle and luxury segment, but revenues have been penalised by sharp fluctuations in the US and Australian dollars and the Brazilian real in particular: the Accor group's first-half performance is showing good momentum "despite a complex geopolitical context and the impact...

Nearly 3,000 rooms. The Accor group has just found its largest establishment in the world, in a city where mega hotels are the norm: Las Vegas. Its Handwritten Collection brand will soon be operating, through a franchise agreement, the Treasure Island - TI Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, for its second...

Even before making its Asian debut in Singapore next September, Mama Shelter is looking to the Orient with a second address in mind. By 2029, the lifestyle brand will be bringing its fun, offbeat spirit to Bangkok. For what will be one of the biggest, if not the biggest hotel in the...

A three-star acquisition. The Logis Hotels Group has announced an important addition to its portfolio with the integration, currently under discussion, of the Teritoria chain, backed by Alain Ducasse and founded in 1975. Previously known as Les Collectionneurs, Teritoria boasts 316 upmarket hotels and restaurants in Europe, notably in France and Italy,...

After Brittany and the Liziec estate near Vannes, opened at the end of last year, the MGallery Collection of hotels is heading further south along the Atlantic coast this summer, to the Basque Country. The Accor Group's intimate luxury brand has just set up shop in Biarritz, just a stone's throw from the ocean and...

The Thai group Dusit International, one of the three major hotel players originating from Thailand, is expanding its global portfolio with the launch of Dusit Hotels, its ninth brand. The new brand incorporates brand consistency with upmarket, four-star hotels that reflect the cultural specificities of each market, primarily in the...

The Barcelo Group is establishing its first key foothold in France, particularly for business travellers to the Paris region. The Spanish hotelier has just purchased, for €70 million, the Evergreen Laurel Hotel in Levallois-Perret, in the heart of the Front de Seine business district, which boasts almost 170,000 sq. metres of office space between...

Since acquiring NH Hotels in 2018, Minor Hotels has been following in the footsteps of the world leaders. The acquisition of the Spanish group had enabled it to expand its presence in Europe and the Caribbean while broadening its brand portfolio. Originally focused on Asia and resorts with its Anantara brand, the Thai hotel operator is now...

Urban residence or lifestyle hotel? The heart of Jardin de Verre balances between the two. Opened last February in the 5th arrondissement, near Place Monge and the Jardin des Plantes, this first establishment in France of the Locke long-stay brand has all the makings of an apartment hotel, with its 145 flats, each...

Waldorf Astoria is heading north. This year, the Hilton Group's luxury brand is set to make its Scandinavian debut in Helsinki. The American hotelier has just signed a management agreement with M&L Group to integrate the Hotel Maria, soon to be renamed Waldorf Astoria Helsinki, into its portfolio. Located in the...

Bill Murray will soon be able to take his jet-lagged actor spleen for a spin once again. The flagship host of the film Lost in Translation, the Park Hyatt Tokyo is back in business at the end of the year, celebrating its 30th anniversary by offering travellers a redesigned setting after more than a year's work. With new restaurant concepts, but with the same elegance as before...

The Hoxton hotel has just opened in Edinburgh. Located in the West End, the hotel comprises a collection of 11 Georgian-style houses on either side of Grosvenor Street. Their originality is reflected in a proposal for several self-contained three-bedroom houses, each with its own...

With almost 150 hotels and a presence in 20 countries, Marriott already occupies a pre-eminent position among hotel groups in Africa, particularly since its takeover of Protea Hotels in the middle of the last decade. With its hundred or so establishments at the time, most of them in southern Africa, this South African group gave Marriott a...

Being the leader in your own country always leaves room for improvement. Accor demonstrated this in the first half of the year with the opening of more than twenty new hotels in France, providing more than 1,700 new rooms. "France continues to offer a wealth of development opportunities for the Group, as demonstrated by this extremely buoyant first half of the year.

It's probably not the arrival of Trenitalia's first TGV trains at Saint-Charles station, from 15 June, that can explain the wave of hotel openings in Marseille today. Rather, it's the attractiveness of a major metropolis that is constantly advancing its position on the tourist map. By the end of May, Villa M had set up shop...

The Accor group will soon be adding a new brand in Egypt. The lifestyle brand 25Hours, part of the lifestyle hotel joint venture Ennismore, will make its debut in Cairo in a few years' time, within a new business complex in the immediate vicinity of the Mall of Egypt. Developed by Dubai-based specialist Majid Al Futtaim, the...

A future Mecca for business events in the UK. In fact, it already is, as the Hilton Manchester Deansgate boasts almost 2,000 m² of MICE space. But this establishment, which is housed in the Beetham Tower, one of the country's tallest skyscrapers outside London, will soon be changing hands to become a...

A new hybrid hotel, suitable for both short and long stays, in tune with the times and the neighbourhood: the opening of the lyf Gambetta Paris marks the arrival of a new brand from the Ascott group in the French capital, following on from Citadines and the three luxury La Clef establishments in the Crest Collection. This Asian brand, which has...

Launched in 2021 by the Accor group, the luxury brand Emblems Collection took its time before the first establishments joined its fold, and therefore that of the French group and its sales force supported by its ALL programme. But the last few months have seen its development accelerate. In this context,...