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October 15, 2013

Hotel Ritz and Crillon Paris Are Deep Into Their Beauty Sleeps | hotelchatter.com

While the Peninsula Paris might be slowly revealing its Beaux Arts façade on Avenue Kléber, a hop and a skip down the Champs Élysées, two other Parisian luxury hotels are still very much off in the land of dreams. Hotel Ritz, on terribly chic Place Vendôme, is coming up to the midway point of its two-year plus closure, or as the French put it so much more eloquently, “vers une nouvelle legende”. If possible, the building is even more obscured from prying eyes than it was last time we walked by, earlier this year.

hotelchatter.com

Press Release Sales & Marketing

October 3, 2013

Accor innovates in B-to-B customer relations management with Salesforce.com

Accor is capitalizing on new digital usage trends to boost the efficiency of its sales force with an innovative, decidedly "Web 2.0" tool, designed in partnership with Salesforce.com. Known as ANAIS (Accor New Application for Integrated Sales), the tool is used by the Group's 700 salespersons across the world and provides them with a 360° overview of the Group's strategic accounts, thus giving them a better understanding of their B-to-B customers.

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Supplier News Technology

September 17, 2013

Pegasus Solutions Hosts Key Hoteliers in Paris for Launch of World of Distribution Event Series

Pegasus Solutions hosted hoteliers at Google's Paris location on Monday for their first joint World of Distribution seminar. The event provided a forum for representatives from Pegasus, Google, and key Parisian hotel companies to deliberate on the industry's current and developing distribution needs.

Press Release Human Resources

September 9, 2013

IHG Signs Crowne Plaza Lyon - Cité Internationale

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) one of the world's largest hotel companies, is delighted to announce the signing of the Crowne Plaza hotel in Lyon, France: Crowne Plaza Lyon – Cité Internationale. Due to open in quarter one 2014, the 164-room property will undergo a rapid rebranding from an existing hotel under a franchise agreement with Societe des Cinq Soeurs Pochettino (SCSP).

IHG

Lyon, France

External Article Finance

August 29, 2013

Accor hopes new chief will end hotels heartbreak | ft.com

High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email [email protected] to buy additional rights. During the past few years, Accor has earned a reputation for feisty boardroom showdowns and sensational management reshuffles. On Tuesday, Europe’s largest hotel group by number of rooms named another new chief executive. At a board meeting the company confirmed that Sébastien Bazin, until now the European head of California-based Colony Capital, would become the new chairman and chief executive with immediate effect.

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paris, France

August 27, 2013

Accor Appoints Sébastien Bazin as Chairman and CEO

The Board of Directors of Accor that convened on August 27, 2013, chaired by Philippe Citerne, decided to appoint Sébastien Bazin as Chairman and CEO of Accor. To take on this new role, Sébastien Bazin has ended all his duties at Colony Capital, which he had been heading since 1997. Philippe Citerne has been appointed as Vice-Chairman of Accor's Board of Directors.

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Press Release Food & Beverage

August 14, 2013

Inside the World's Biggest Hotel Wine Cellar | Bloomberg

Bloomberg takes a look inside the exclusive and historic Hotel de Paris in Monaco. Famous guests included Cary Grant, Michael Jackson and Nelson Mandela. We look inside their wine cellar, one of the largest and oldest in the world. (Source: Bloomberg)

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August 12, 2013

The French Hotel Industry Plays The Game Well

The first semester of 2013 finished on a positive note for the French hotel industry. Faced with an increasingly difficult market context, hotels throughout France improved performance levels. Despite a general downturn in occupancy, hotels managed to increase rooms revenue, thanks to a significant upsurge in average rates. This was the case throughout all the destinations analysed.

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France

July 23, 2013

IHG signs first Hotel Indigo in Paris

IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), one of the world’s leading global hotel companies, is proud to announce the signing of a management agreement with Société Foncière Lyonnaise (SFL) for the development of Hotel Indigo Paris – Opera, France. Located just a few steps from Opera Garnier and the InterContinental Paris Le Grand, this addition follows the recent signings of the Hotel Indigo boutique brand in Rome and Brighton.

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Press Release Food & Beverage

July 22, 2013

Le Meurice Announces The Arrival Of Alain Ducasse In September To Oversee All Restaurants

Hotel Le Meurice, the first palace hotel in Paris, has invited Alain Ducasse to take over the management of its kitchens. He will bring to this landmark his innovative vision, ethos and distinctive take on contemporary French haute cuisine.

Dorchester

July 16, 2013

Carlson Rezidor announces the Radisson Blu Hotel, Rouen, France

Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the ten largest hotel groups worldwide, announces the Radisson Blu Hotel, Rouen in France. The 91-rooms property is scheduled to open in Q3 2015, and brings Carlson Rezidor's French portfolio to 23 hotels in operation and under development.

Radisson Hotel Group

Rouen, France

July 15, 2013

Ramadan 2013 Impacts Luxury Hotel Segment in Paris and French Riviera

S ince 2010, Ramadan has been encroaching on the summer season and disrupting the habits of the Middle-Eastern clientele of French palaces who are traditionally fond of Paris and the French Riviera in the summer, especially in August. The figures reported by MKG clearly show the effects of this departure of customers on the upscale hotel segment in France.

Hospitality ON

External Article Sales & Marketing

July 10, 2013

French hotels take on online booking firms | telegraph.co.uk

French hotels launched an attack on three of the world's biggest online booking firms, saying they are unfairly twisting their arm on prices by banning them from offering reductions or taking bookings direct.

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paris, France

June 28, 2013

Vinexpo 2013, A Good Vintage For Bordeaux Hoteliers

Tapping into an increasingly international attendance, the events tied to the wine and spirits industry are undeniable boost to hotel activity, as shown in Bordeaux’s performance over the last Vinexpo. The same trend was observed in Düsseldorf at the annual ProWien event. The wine and spirits industry has once again proved profitable to Bordeaux’s hospitality sector over the last edition of Vinexpo, which took place from the 16th to the 20th of June 2013.

Hospitality ON

France

June 26, 2013

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Reopens an Art Deco Icon: Prince De Galles, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Paris Following a Two Year Restoration

The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), today reopens the doors to the legendary Prince de Galles, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Paris, following a meticulous two-year restoration. The restoration, which has brought the hotel back to its original Art Deco splendour, is part of a larger strategy to invest more than $200 million in some of Starwood’s most celebrated Luxury Collection hotels throughout Europe: Hotel Alfonso XIII in Seville and Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, which reopened in 2012, and most recently, The Gritti Palace in Venice, which was unveiled in February 2013.

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Press Release Design & Architecture

June 6, 2013

Renaissance Paris Arc De Triomphe Hotel Dresses In Haute Couture

The Renaissance Paris Arc de Triomphe Hotel is giving Parisians and hotel guests the opportunity to discover spring/summer 2014 fashion trends though a series of unique RLife LIVE events inspired by fashion. On Friday night, the hotel was transformed into a catwalk as guests were treated to an intimate fashion show curated by model and J Model Management founder, Jessica Minh Anh. Now through 19 June, the Renaissance Arc de Triomphe is showcasing some of the most unique pieces from the catwalk in an exclusive exhibition open to the public.

Marriott

June 3, 2013

Deloitte - French Hotel Industry Performances (April 2013) - Sluggish performance of the French hotel industry

Directly dependent on the economic context, the hotel industry saw a further drop in rooms revenue in April. Even Paris and the Côte d'Azur – who have up till now managed to resist – experienced a decline in revenues. Occupancy continues to suffer as a result of the gloomy economic environment, but more worryingly, average rates are now starting to fall, which does not herald good news for the industry.

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Opinion Article Sales & Marketing

May 29, 2013

The Indivisible Image of France

Consumption may be reduced by excessive precautionary savings and productive investments waiting for better days. The national priority begins foremost with collective economic mobilization and not by rearguard battles on the evolution of society, regardless of respectable opinion. Besides the fact that the recent protests against marriage for all show the face of a blocked society, they show a strange behavior with respect to the republican law.

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

May 27, 2013

Hyatt Hotels Completes Rebranding of Four Iconic French Properties

Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced the rebranding of four hotels in France, creating Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez, Hyatt Regency Nice Palais de la Mediterranée and Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile. The fourth hotel, now branded as Hotel du Louvre, a Hyatt Hotel, will become an Andaz following a renovation. These new Hyatt hotels join the three Hyatt properties already in Paris: Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme, Hyatt Paris Madeleine and Hyatt Regency Paris Charles de Gaulle.

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