top-of-the-range hotels

A healthy mind in a healthy body: that's the philosophy behind the Villa M health and well-being hotels. First appearing in Paris in 2022, in an establishment designed by Philippe Starck, this hotel concept, supported by the Pasteur Mutualité group, has just seen a new development in Marseille. While in...

Business travellers in Troyes will soon only have to walk a few steps to discover the latest addition to the Okko family of hotels. Opening its doors on 9 June, this fifteenth establishment is located just opposite the railway station, yet just a few minutes' walk from the town centre with its medieval streets. After...

Radisson is reaffirming its leading role in hotel development in Africa. With 8 new hotels inaugurated last year, providing 1,540 new rooms, the group is just ahead of Marriott - 1,524 rooms for 11 establishments - and Accor - 7 hotels for 1,354 rooms - in terms of the number of hotels to be opened by 2024, according to an analysis by...

While the Radisson Collection luxury brand is expected to open in Paris by 2027, on the rue de Rivoli, it has just made its entry into France via Lyon. "It's a start that matches our ambitions," says Tom Flanagan, General Manager for Northern and Western Europe at Radisson Hotel Group....

After launching its first luxury hotel in the heart of the capital, the SAX hotel, the Hilton group is continuing its expansion in the Paris region with the announcement of its twentieth hotel in the Ile-de-France region. Expected to open in the summer, the hotel will expand the Tapestry Collection lifestyle brand in a destination that is as popular with business travellers as it is with leisure travellers.

24/7 reception. This service is customary in four-star hotels, but it will be even more essential for this future establishment. The first stone was laid on 28 April this year, and the hotel will stand on the edge of a circuit where the cars go twice round the clock, that of the...

It would be hard to find a more symbolic location in the heart of Frankfurt's financial district: the former headquarters of Deutsche Bank. Kimpton, the luxury and lifestyle brand of the IHG group, is part of the transformation of the office tower which, until the middle of the last decade, housed the staff of Germany's leading bank. The first...

The opening of the 500th hotel for its premium brands, the inauguration of two luxury hotels in major European cities, the strengthening of its offer in Dubai and renovations galore: Accor has been busy in recent days. In particular, the French group has just opened a luxury liner in the marina...

GETTING THERE Eurostar offers up to 14 daily return TGV services between Paris and Amsterdam - and even 15 on the Brussels-Amsterdam route. At the same time, the London-Amsterdam links, which will be interrupted for a time in 2024 due to expansion work at Amsterdam Centraal station, offer up to 3 return trips a day. As far as air travel is concerned, although these flights...

Accor is now one of the hotel groups with the strongest presence in Amsterdam. How do you explain this extensive portfolio in the city? Erwin Van Der Graff - First and foremost because of our presence in Amsterdam since the 1970s. In more than 50 years, we have managed to expand our portfolio to 25 hotels,...

With its strong appeal to tourists from all over the world, a powerful economic fabric to support business travel, and major events organised at the RAI congress centre, is Amsterdam a blessed destination for the hotel industry? Gozde Eren - Being at the helm of Amsterdam's Hyatt hotels makes me a lucky person indeed....

The city is full. When it comes to overtourism, Amsterdam is, along with Venice, one of the first examples to come to mind, sharing with the Serenissima the constrained setting of its Instagrammable canals. The tourism industry won't complain, with growth of 4% year on year since...

A heritage investment in Lille. The Océania group has just converted the former head office of the Scalbert-Dupont bank, the region's most respected financial institution, into a top-of-the-range hotel until it was nationalised in 1981 and then became part of the CIC group. Its vault is still there in the basement, converted into a swimming pool...

The Oceania group has just made a grand entrance into Lille with the conversion of the former headquarters of the Scalbert-Dupont bank into a hotel. Is this a major moment for your group? Rozenn Branellec Dumon - We're delighted to have planted a flag in Lille through the metamorphosis of these former offices...

Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) passed the 600-hotel mark at the end of last year. To go even further, would you now like to reach the 800 or even 1,000 hotel mark? What would be the right size for your group? Richard Hyde - That's a question we always struggle to answer...

Conquering the Indian subcontinent: international hotel groups are looking for the magic bullet to penetrate a huge but elusive market. Accor hopes to have found it with the conclusion of a major partnership with the local leader in the travel sector, the conglomerate InterGlobe. In addition to its hotel activities, which include the development of around twenty ibis...

Unique because multiple. Of course, property developments combining offices, hotels and wellbeing are not uncommon, in France as elsewhere. As the embodiment of these new urban living spaces where uses merge, La Fondation is part of this trend, with a five-star hotel with 58 rooms, over 5,000 sq. metres of...

The long-awaited reopening earlier this year of the luxury Radisson Collection Berlin, after a dramatic incident that ravaged its lobby and destroyed its flagship attraction, its gigantic aquarium, crowned the hotel group's expansion phase after a historic year in 2024. Its best year ever in terms of openings, as...

Hyatt has made no secret of its desire to establish itself as the key player in the resort segment worldwide. Through acquisitions and partnerships, the group has built up a dominant position with a portfolio of more than 150 establishments, many of them focused on top-of-the-range all-inclusive properties. The acquisition in...

Nearly 300 more hotels for a total of 50,000 rooms added to its portfolio, the 1,000 mark passed by Mercure, 330 more % eco-certified hotels in one year to reach 36 % of its labelled hotels, but above all a record number of new contracts: Accor will have had a year...