Turkey

A first that will be followed by others. Since the end of June, the Ascott group has had a Citadines apartment hotel in Istanbul, in the Maslak district. Offering 147 units ranging from studios to four-bedroom flats, with a restaurant and meeting room, the establishment adds a new stopover to the list of...

Moxy is writing a new page in its history by setting off to discover a new market: Turkey. And for this grand debut, the brand has chosen an unmissable destination - Istanbul - and a strategic address: the Beyoğlu district. The Moxy Istanbul Beyoğlu has now opened its doors just a few steps...

Cambodia's aviation market is really taking off. Still marginalised a few years ago, the kingdom is beginning to attract intercontinental carriers, particularly from the Gulf. Emirates already operates daily flights - with a stopover - from Dubai to Phnom Penh and Qatar Airways from Doha to the Cambodian capital....

Business travellers on the recently taken over Pakistan Airlines routes between Paris and Islamabad will find a new Mövenpick business hotel at their destination, the first opened by the Accor group in the Pakistani capital. Housed in one of the country's tallest towers, next to the Centaurus Mall shopping centre, the hotel boasts a prime location...

The world's leading hotel companies are placing particular emphasis on their development in Turkey. This is a key market where Hilton is approaching the 100-establishment mark and Accor the 80 mark, while Marriott has around fifty hotels, most of them in Istanbul. For its part, the Radisson group is making progress towards its target of 100 hotels by 2010.

In the end, Turkish Airlines chose Melbourne for its first service to Australia. Three weekly frequencies will be offered with a technical stop in Singapore until the Turkish airline receives its first Airbus A 350-1000. Including this stopover, the Istanbul-Melbourne flight will last 19 hours. Fares have already been...

Since 1955 and the opening of the Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus, one of its first hotels outside the United States, the American group has continued to strengthen its offer in the Turkish metropolis. From Hampton to Conrad, not forgetting the Curio Collection and DoubleTree, a host of brands are present here, for a total of 28 hotels today. And...

Being the undisputed leader in luxury and premium hotels doesn't seem to be enough for Marriott. For some time now, the group has been showing increasing interest in the mid-range segment. Buoyed by strong demand for value-for-money hospitality, the American hotelier introduced a new midscale brand this year and a new midscale brand this...

The final hours of 2022 saw the Hyatt Place brand make its official debut in a new business destination: Hangzhou. And for its arrival in the capital of Zhejiang, China, the brand positioned as the group's contemporary and relaxed brand has set its sights on a strategic location for travellers...

October saw the IHG offer in Germany and Turkey grow in strength. Two successive announcements were published by the hotel group, which will be extending its accommodation options for business travellers to these two business destinations. In Germany, a contract has been signed with Solutions4Hotels GmbH for...

A change of name, but above all a move upmarket for the Radisson group in Turkey. Its former Radisson Blu Vadistanbul hotel has been upgraded to Radisson Collection, its rapidly expanding luxury brand. "We are proud to strengthen our presence in Istanbul (...) with the ambition of becoming the largest operator...

Turkish Airlines has just published its results for the first half of 2022. They confirm the upturn in global traffic, which is of particular benefit to the Turkish airline. Turkish carried 30.89 million passengers in the first six months of 2022. Although this performance is still 12% down on the previous year's figures,...

It's late afternoon and Istanbul's trendy young people are frequenting the old warehouses in the Tersane district, which is hosting a contemporary art exhibition. While the DJs jam to their consoles, visitors admire and buy the works of art. Unless, of course, they are simply watching the sun set over the Golden Horn...

Istanbul continues to attract international hotel chains, an attraction made all the more real by the dynamism of local investors, encouraged in particular by Turkey's central government. By launching major infrastructure projects, the government is also promoting local capitalism, which is benefiting from this. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:"...

Getting there Air France and Turkish Airlines operate daily flights from Paris CDG to Istanbul International and Sabiha Gokcen in the Asian part of the city. Pegasus Air also offers daily flights from Orly to Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen. Turkish Airlines offers two daily flights from Basel-Mulhouse, Lyon, Marseille and Nice to...

Bukhara (Uzbekistan) but also Juba (South Sudan) and Tivat (Montenegro). Turkish Airlines has resumed the strong expansion of its network, adding these three destinations which have in common the absence of a major international air network. Turkish Airlines is therefore filling a gap. Since 1 June, the airline has been serving Juba, the capital of the independent state of South Africa...

Launched at the end of 2020, the Radisson Individuals brand is continuing to grow thanks to the attraction of the support of a major hotel group for independent hotel owners. While its announced expansion in Russia, with around ten hotels in the pipeline, has been postponed to a later date, the brand recently opened its first hotel in Africa, in Accra, Ghana,...

One last door is closing in Europe for flights to and from Russia. On Monday, the President of the Swiss Confederation, Ignazio Cassis, activated the ban on Russian aircraft flying over and serving Swiss territory. The airline Swiss is therefore also banned from flying into Swiss territory...

Turkey is definitely in the spotlight for hotel groups. Following the announcement a few days ago that Marriott International was planning to open around ten hotels, most of them in Istanbul, and the recent opening of a Mandarin Oriental, also in the Turkish capital, it is now Accor's turn to unveil plans to bring its offering in the country to 57...

A brand new Sheraton has reopened its doors in Istanbul, in the Levent business district. Recently renovated, the hotel embodies the ongoing transformation of this historic business travel brand. This new approach is embodied by a design accent, lively lobbies around a café-bar-market but adapted to mobile working, rooms...