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March 2, 2015

Starwood Capital Group completes the sale of Groupe du Louvre and Louvre Hotels Group to Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels Development Co., Ltd.

Starwood Capital Group and Jin Jiang International Holdings Co., Ltd. are pleased to confirm that the sale of Groupe du Louvre and its 100% indirect subsidiary Louvre Hotels Group has been completed. Through Starwood affiliate Star SDL Investment Co., Groupe du Louvre was sold to the Luxemburg-based subsidiary of Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels Development Co., Ltd., for an amount of €1.3 billion.

Louvre Hotels Group

February 27, 2015

Willemijn Geels has been appointed as Associate Vice President Development at InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG)

Willemijn GEELS ESSEC IMHI 2004 has been appointed Associate Vice President North & Eastern Europe for IHG and is responsible for the expansion of the group’s brands across the region. She has nearly 15 years’ experience in the hospitality industry through various operational and development related positions. Before joining IHG, Willemijn was Development & Acquisitions Director for Louvre Hotels Group in Europe and previously she was active as Manager within the HTL practice of Deloitte. In that role, she headed multiple hotel valuations, feasibility studies as well as transaction and strategic advisory assignments.

Press Release Sales & Marketing

February 26, 2015

Mercure unveils the results of the “The Six Friends Theory” international casting

Mercure has launched "The Six Friends Theory", an unprecedented worldwide digital operation to check the well-known six-degrees-of-separation theory which claims that we are all only six people away from everyone else on the planet. The international casting call, which took place between January 20th and February 10th 2015, was a huge success on the social networks. Hundreds of Internet users participated in a bid to win this incredible human adventure! Mercure now unveils the winner of the round-the-world trip.

February 25, 2015

Bénédicte Lefeuvre has been promoted to Vice President Customer Contact Centers at ACCOR

Bénédicte LEFEUVRE ESSEC IMHI 1997 has been promoted to VP Customers Contact Centers. She is now in charge of all reservation call centers worldwide for Accor hotels, as well as the customer service centers. Bénédicte has more than 18 years of experience with Accor that she joined upon graduation. She held various positions and was Vice President Distribution Systems Administration before her recent promotion.

Press Release Development

February 19, 2015

Meliá Paris La Défense opens its doors

Meliá Hotels International is set to open its latest lifestyle hotel, in March 2015, located in the heart of Paris' vibrant business district. With spectacular panoramic views of the city and its key landmarks, Meliá Paris La Défense is the French capital's largest four star hotel to open in ten years.

February 18, 2015

Diane Hue has been appointed as Associate Director of Sales at Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile

Diane Hue ESSEC IMHI 2001 has been appointed Associate Director of Sales for the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile. Prior to that Diane has worked 6 years for Dolce Hotels & Resorts and her last position was Global Account Manager France. Previously she worked in sales and business development with Choice Hotels, Sodexo and Hôtel Mirabeau in Monaco.

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Opinion Article

February 13, 2015

When Secularism pervades us

A month after the dramatic events in France and the emotional reaction of millions of citizens rising up against the Barbaric act and for the freedom of thought, the time has come for more reasoned thinking… that is if it cannot be thoroughly reasonable… TYPO3SEARCH_begin

By Georges Panayotis, President & Founder of MKG Group & Hospitality ON, Hospitality ON

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Press Release Human Resources

February 13, 2015

Accor signs the United Nations’ “Women’s Empowerment Principles” (WEPs)

Accor, the world's leading hotel operator and market leader in Europe, today announces that it is a signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs). This program, an initiative of UN Women and the United Nations Global Compact, defines seven principles that foster the empowerment of women in the workplace, the marketplace and the community.

Opinion Article Sales & Marketing

February 10, 2015

The hotel industry must begin its inner journey

Today's fascination for artificial intelligence leads many to imagine a future where computers would make a major contribution to all the operations in all sectors of day-to-day life. After CAD and CAP, has the time has come for CAH - Computer Aided Hospitality? The development of Revenue management has encouraged modeling behavior, the creation of nearly magical algorithms to optimize revenues. Customer relations, meanwhile, has been entered into the equation of very sophisticated CRM software that is able to send reminders for birthdays, preferences for comforters and colors of bouquet, capable of tailoring offers to fit loyal clients who have been studied from every angle. TYPO3SEARCH_begin

By Georges Panayotis, President & Founder of MKG Group & Hospitality ON, Hospitality ON

Press Release Development

February 10, 2015

Marriott Hotels Opens First Hotel In Lyon, France

Marriott Hotels, the signature brand of Marriott International, welcomed Lyon Marriott Hotel Cité International to its portfolio on 30 January 2015. The hotel joins a further 23 Marriott Hotels in France.

Press Release Development

February 9, 2015

Ascott Debuts Luxurious Citadines Suites Arc de Triomphe in the Heart of Paris

CapitaLand's wholly-owned serviced residence business unit, The Ascott Limited (Ascott), has opened the luxurious Citadines Suites Arc de Triomphe Paris along the prestigious Avenue Kléber after a €26 million facelift. The 112-unit Citadines Suites Arc de Triomphe Paris is Ascott's second serviced residence under the upscale Citadines Suites label following the successful opening of Citadines Suites Louvre Paris near the Palais-Royal in April 2013.

The Ascott Limited

Press Release Development

February 5, 2015

AC Hotels By Marriott Opens New Hotel at Paris Le Bourget Airport

AC Hotels by Marriott welcomed the new AC Hotel Paris Le Bourget to its France portfolio on 2 February 2015. The new hotel follows major global expansion of the brand, aimed at the lifestyle oriented business traveller, with the opening of the first AC by Marriott property in the U.S. - the AC Hotel New Orleans Bourbon - and recent openings in Istanbul and Valencia.

Press Release Development

February 4, 2015

Generator Brings New Breed Of “Haute” Hostel To Paris In 2015

Generator, the brand that is transforming the European hostel category with its hip urban design hostels, arrives in Paris in 2015. The property, located in the fashionable 10th Arrondissement, will be the largest Generator to date with 916 beds.

Press Release Markets & Performance

January 27, 2015

Deloitte - French Hotel Industry Performances - November 2014

The combined drop in occupancy and average rates meant that trading fell significantly in November – in all segments and in nearly all destinations. Within this difficult climate, the Luxury segment was the worst affected, hit by a challenging international environment.

In Extenso Avocats

Press Release Development

January 22, 2015

Perseus Capital Partners (PCP) acquires Hôtel Franklin-Montreuil 3*

Perseus Capital Partners (PCP) announces the acquisition of a 96-room hotel in Montreuil, Greater Paris. This new transaction evidences PCP's investment framework, which focuses on unlocking value from repositioning independent hotels with large upside potential.

Perseus Capital Partners ltd

Opinion Article

January 15, 2015

Is luxury always timeless?

At a time when we are seriously questioning the real values that lie behind behavior, the hotel industry is returning the experience to its place of honor as it justifies the customer's choice of this or that particular category. This idea of the experience, which is increasingly indispensable regardless of the level of the offer, becomes absolutely necessary when we enter the luxury segment. TYPO3SEARCH_begin

By Georges Panayotis, President & Founder of MKG Group & Hospitality ON, Hospitality ON

Opinion Article

January 14, 2015

FRANCE - a 2014 snapshot, and business scenarios for 2015 and beyond

Every year, the hotel experts and analysts at Horwath HTL worldwide produce a series of mini-country reports exclusively for The Hotel Yearbook. Each report focuses on just two things: first, a quick snapshot of the country’s current economic and hotel market situation, and second, the outlook for the year ahead, highlighting specific events that are anticipated to have an impact on the health of the country’s hotel business.

By Philippe Doizelet, Partner Horwath HTL (France), Horwath

Supplier News Technology

January 14, 2015

TravelClick Acquires Hotel Video Solutions Provider TVtrip

TravelClick ("the Company"), a global provider of innovative cloud-based revenue-generating solutions for the hospitality industry, announced today that it has purchased TVtrip, the leading provider of video creation and distribution services for hotels around the globe, headquartered in Paris, France.

TravelClick, Inc.

Press Release Sales & Marketing

January 14, 2015

Mercure kicks off international casting for a trip around the world to check the “Six Friends Theory”

Mercure has decided to check the well-known six-degrees-of-separation theory, which claims that we are all only six people away from everyone else on the planet. Mercure is introducing a worldwide digital operation, "The Six Friends Theory", based on this principle and leading to an unprecedented human experience combining the power of social media and candid face-to-face encounters. The worldwide selection process will run on Facebook from January 20th to February 10th, 2015, and an internet user will soon be able to experience the extraordinary!

External Article Sales & Marketing

January 13, 2015

Accor Hotels: How it’s adapting to mobile | tnooz.com

Last October, Accor Hotels unveiled its five-year, 225 million euro plan for “reinventing the customer experience through technology.” For an update, Tnooz spoke with a few key officials on its tech side. A focus for the company is mobile, according to Jean Luc Chretien Executive vice president, distribution sales and loyalty, who says: “Today about 35% of the users of Accor’s digital platforms are arriving by mobile devices.