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Bengaluru – or Bangalore – will be added to Swiss's catalogue from October. The airline plans to operate five flights per week from Zurich to India's Silicon Valley. The departure from Zurich Airport is scheduled daily except for Mondays and Wednesdays at 1:20 PM. The aircraft will travel...

A lifestyle renaissance. For its debut in Switzerland this summer, Mama Shelter is picking up the thread of the history of one of Zürich's flagship establishments, the former Swissôtel. Originally known as Hôtel International in 1972, it took on the name of this essentially Swiss brand in 1980, when its owner at the time, Swissair, changed its name to Swissôtel.

Zurich airport in Switzerland remains the country's leading air hub, with almost 29 million passengers by 2023. The airport is expecting to handle 30 million passengers this year, with several airlines stepping up their services with the introduction of summer schedules. A total of 62 airlines operate between...

May will be a month of firsts for several airlines. A few days before Air France makes its debut in Phoenix, Swiss will also set out to conquer a new destination. The Lufthansa Group airline will be serving Seoul from Zurich from 7 May. Seoul, the unmissable MICE hub The...

As it does every year, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) publishes its annual report on the cost of living in the world's major metropolises, resulting in a ranking of the world's most expensive cities. The survey was carried out in 173 cities between 14 August and 11 September 2023, based on the calculation of more than...

Since 25 October, a new flight has been available for booking within the Swiss network, and for the first time in the airline's history. Swiss has just announced its arrival on a strategic route for business travellers: the Zurich-Rotterdam flight is due to start on 22 January 2024. And for...

From November 1, Zurich airport will be offering passengers travelling in economy class on any airline the use of a privileged lounge and services as part of the "ZRH Comfort" service. The service costs CHF 49 (€50). It includes access to the ZRH Club lounge with...

The Mandarin Oriental Savoy will welcome its first guests in Zurich this winter. With this announced opening, the Asian luxury group, which has been established in Geneva since 2000 with the purchase of the Hôtel du Rhône, will provide business travellers with an elegant base in Switzerland's two major business cities, the gateways to the...

Swiss recently announced that it is targeting two new transatlantic destinations from Zurich. The airline's flight schedule will be expanded in summer 2024 to include Washington D.C. and Toronto. From 28 March onwards, Swiss will be serving the US federal capital daily with an Airbus A330. The flight departs Zurich at 13:00 and lands in Washington D.C. ....

Refinement and conviviality: this is the promise made by Swiss to mark the reopening of its non-Schengen lounge at Zurich airport. Located in the airport's transit zone in terminal D, the redesigned lounge covers 650 m². Enough space to subdivide the lounge...

Mama Shelter's expansion in France will continue over the coming months. From its current eight hotels, the brand created by Serge Trigano and now owned by Accor should have eleven by summer 2024. Recently, the lifestyle brand gave a number of details about its arrival in Rennes next March, with a 119-room hotel...

It's a paradox. The inexorable rise in the Swiss franc does not seem to be penalising the Swiss economy as a whole, and the hotel sector in particular. In the space of a year, the Swiss franc has fallen from CHF 1.07 to the euro to CHF 0.98 on 6 October. At the end of June, the Swiss franc had reached absolute parity...

A sustainable approach and improved passenger comfort. This is the concept behind the future Pier A at Zurich airport. It will eventually replace the current "Dock A". The latter, built 35 years ago at the same time as the control tower, is reaching the end of its useful life, according to the authorities. Pier A...

InterCity Hotels has just made its Swiss debut near Zurich airport. For the occasion, the mid-range brand has found a location in line with its positioning, that of accommodation that is always perfectly located for business travellers. The Deutsche Hospitality group's brand is mainly developed in city centres, and in particular in...

The Swiss business hotel sector has recently welcomed a new member: Ruby Hotels recently opened its first address in Zurich. Mimi, the name given to this first Ruby, has taken up residence in the century-old building of the Orient, one of the city's first cinemas, some elements of which have been preserved for...

Combo" projects are definitely in vogue at Accor. Having just revealed the opening of a combined ibis and ibis budget hotel at London Heathrow, the French group has now unveiled another project involving two of the group's brands, this time in Zurich. For this project in the Swiss business metropolis, the combination is not...

In these unprecedented times, when compromise - hybrids - are becoming the norm, the temptation of the intermediate class is making itself felt among certain airlines. After KLM, which announced at the end of 2020 the arrival of a new premium economy for 2022, Swiss has just unveiled its new product. This fourth class, which is already open to bookings,...

Zurich's new business spot is expanding rapidly, attracting international business travellers. Two weeks after celebrating the opening of its thousandth hotel, Hyatt has inaugurated the Hyatt Regency Zurich Airport The Circle, the brand's first representative in Switzerland. The hotel has 255 rooms, including 16 suites. On the restaurant front, the new...

It was the biggest urban development project in Switzerland at the turn of the century. And its inauguration in Zurich at the end of last year could not have come at a worse time. "The Circle opened at the end of November, at a time when Switzerland's leading airport was hard hit by the pandemic. The traffic of...

The Circle, the new zone dedicated to business tourism at Zurich airport, is due to open its doors in September 2020: a sort of small town covering an area of 180,000 m², with restaurants, brand-name shops, art galleries and even an outpatient centre at Zurich University Hospital....