United States

For several years, some hoteliers in the US have played down the impact of Airbnb-style short-term rentals on their bottom line. But a new report from CBRE Research suggests that this alternative accommodation offer and the growth in hotel supply are leaving the US hotel industry bereft. Hotel occupancy rates are in...

Airlines are making their mark at CES, the technology event held every year in Las Vegas. For this 2020 edition, American Airlines has just announced the launch of an automatic translation service. In the same vein, Delta has played the technology card, with a number of major assets. The CEO of...

Today, there are only two major airlines in the American West: Alaska Airlines, with its hub in Seattle, and Hawaiian Airlines, with its main base in Honolulu. The only other airline based on the West Coast, Virgin America, was finally absorbed by Alaska at the beginning of 2018. Alaska Airlines, now the seventh largest...

Norwegian Air, which is restructuring its transatlantic services around major hubs in Europe and the United States, has just announced the launch of flights from Paris and Rome to Chicago, as well as a Rome-Denver route. On the CDG-Chicago O'Hare route, the low-cost carrier will begin flights on 1 May, operating up to five rotations a week...

How long has United Airlines been committed to sustainable development? Maria Race - We've been working on biofuel projects since 2009, but before that we had already initiated the switch to electric power for our ground equipment, particularly at Houston airport, where their share has reached 75%. Some of our...

Hyatt is adding to its collection of lifestyle brands with the presentation of its latest addition, Caption by Hyatt. While the American group had already extended its footprint in the upmarket and leisure segment with the 2018 acquisition of Two Roads Hospitality and its Alila, Joie de Vivre and Thompson brands, it is on...

Delta will soon be offering a new option on the transatlantic route. On 22 May 2020, the American airline will add a new daily service between Paris and Boston, doubling its offer between the two business destinations. The new flight will leave Paris CDG at 3.40pm and reach Boston at 5.30pm. On the return leg, business travellers will...

Citizen M is preparing for a major offensive in the United States. In parallel with its expansion in Asia - in Taipei in 2017, then in Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur this year - the Dutch retailer will be rolling out its affordable design concept in several major American cities. Established in New York in 2014, Citizen M is now...

Swiss will be expanding its intercontinental network by 2020 with new routes to Washington and Osaka from its Zurich hub, in addition to the year-round service to Miami from March, which until now has only been offered in winter. From 26 March onwards, with daily frequencies, the...

At 345 California Center - a 48-storey building, the fourth highest in the city - the destination's second Four Seasons hotel will soon be opening its doors. However, it will have to wait until 2020, when the renovations to the rooms and public areas will be completed - in addition to...

After Los Angeles, Newark, Hartford, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle, seven US destinations inaugurated since 2015 and the integration of the IAG group, it is now the turn of Minneapolis-St. Paul (Minnesota) to join the Aer Lingus network. The Irish national airline now operates six flights a week there, and will even adopt a daily frequency from this month...

It's an investment that goes against the grain of what the American airline industry has been doing for over a decade. Delta Air Lines is investing in its economy class service, modestly dubbed the "main cabin". Better still, the carrier, partner of Air France-KLM in a joint venture on transatlantic routes and member of the Air France-KLM...

At the beginning of June, the local authorities approved a vast modernisation programme for Miami airport, which could cost up to five billion dollars - just under 4.5 billion euros - as part of a project planned over five to fifteen years. International airport officials plan to increase the airport's capacity...

The transatlantic route, with 73 million seats on sale during the summer of 2019, seems to be rather mature. Since the open skies agreement and the joint ventures sealed between American and European airlines, the number of air routes between the two continents has multiplied, including connections that would have been impossible to imagine even a decade ago. American Airlines...

It's just past midday on 6th Avenue, at the corner of Lenora Street. In front of the "take away" windows of the avenue's restaurants, whole queues are forming. But it's all happening very quickly. Vegan salads and healthy mezze have been ordered and paid for online. All you have to do is pick up the packet with your name on it...

At the top of the hill that rises from Elliott Bay, the once residential area of Capitol Hill is undergoing a complete renewal. The beautiful patrician houses lining Volunteer Park and the brick buildings of the main shopping street, East Pike Street, are undergoing a metamorphosis. A symbol of wealth at the turn of the 20th century,...

Casey A. Wynecoop, 35, co-director of The Intellectual House, University of Washington Washington State still has 29 Indian tribes "I grew up on an Indian reservation east of Seattle, in Spokane, a small town named after a tribe that means 'children of the sun'. Washington State still has 29 tribes....

It all began in 1924, just after the Great War, when Seattle was gaining notoriety, thanks in part to its port, which had become the second largest in the United States after New York. As a result, travellers flocked to the city, but they lacked a prestigious address. It was the Olympic Hotel that marked the beginning of the boom...

"Just a stone's throw from Benaroya Hall, home of the Seattle orchestra, I like to pop in between rehearsals at Pike Place Market for a snack at the Paris-Madrid Grocery. But in the evenings after the concerts, I take the time to find quieter places like Adana, with its Japanese purity, in the...

IDENTITY CARD Currency: the dollar (US$). 1 euro = 1.14 US $ (March 2018). Area code: +1 (United States); 206 (Seattle) Time difference: - 9 h. GETTING THERE AER LINGUS, the Irish airline, has been operating four weekly flights between Paris and Seattle since May 2018, with a stopover in Dublin. The attraction: this is the only European airport with a...