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Welcome Family" and pet-friendly offers, special rates for senior citizens... And what about business travellers? Without, far from it, turning its back on its main clientele, Appart'City is relying on the growing recognition of aparthotels to strengthen its appeal to the general public. We have a lot of room for growth in the leisure sector," says...

The revival of one of the Grand Duchy's great hotels. Opened at the end of May, the Luxembourg Marriott Hotel Alfa takes up the story of an establishment that is almost a century old, opened in 1932 just opposite Luxembourg's central station. Listed as a national monument, this institution at the heart of cultural life and official celebrations had ceased to welcome...

A long lob between Paris and Dubai, between the Roland Garros stadium and the Pullman Dubai Downtown: while the tennis tournament is livening up the area around Porte d'Auteuil, the Accor Group's Dubai hotel is celebrating the yellow ball in its own way with an Official Roland Garros Suite. Unveiled...

Ennismore is heading for Mexico City. With only one hotel so far, the Mondrian Mexico City Condesa, due to open in 2022, Accor's lifestyle hotel subsidiary has just announced three openings for its Hyde and The Hoxton brands, as well as Mama Shelter, which is due to make its debut in the Mexican capital this year. Last April...

The Hyatt group is adding a new collection brand to its portfolio. Completing the luxurious Unbound Collection, JdV by Hyatt in the lifestyle segment and Destination by Hyatt in the group's 'classic' offering, Unscripted by Hyatt fills a gap in the niche of upmarket hotels with limited services. Intended, as the...

Following on from the Radisson hotel opened last year and, more recently, the Holiday Inn Express in the new Rives de Vesles district, the hotel industry in Reims is set to continue its internationalisation with the arrival of the first establishment from the Hyatt group. Scheduled to open in August, this will mark the first steps in France for the top-of-the-range brand...

Having just joined the IHG Group, lifestyle brand Ruby Hotels has unveiled a new project in Geneva. This will be its second hotel in the Swiss metropolis. After transforming three office buildings located above the Passage Malbuisson, between Rue du Rhône and Rue du Marché, the brand, which focuses on...

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...