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Accor expands with 22 new hotels across the Asia-Pacific region – Business Traveller

2Apr

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Accor expands with 22 new hotels across the Asia-Pacific region – Business Traveller

Accor has announced the signing of six new projects in the first quarter of 2024 in key markets across Asia. These recent signings include Pullman Living Bangkok Sukhumvit 16 and Pullman Residences Bangkok Sukhumvit 16, comprising a 200-key hotel and 225-key residential complex. The new property offers convenient access to Rama 4 Road, Ploenchit, Asok, and Thonglor, with amenities including restaurants, bars, an executive club floor, swimming pool, spa, and fitness centre. Novotel Living Bangkok Don Muang presents a combination of an 80-key hotel and 112-key serviced apartments, spread across 19 floors. Offering a range of amenities including restaurants, bars, an executive club floor, swimming pool, spa, and fitness centre. The property will be five minutes away from Bangkok’s Don Mu...

Accor opens ibis budget Madrid Aeropuerto – Business Traveller

26Dec

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Accor opens ibis budget Madrid Aeropuerto – Business Traveller

Accor has opened its latest ibis property in the Spanish capital Madrid. The 159-room ibis budget Madrid Aeropuerto is located on the site of the former Iveco-Pegaso factory, around ten minutes south of Madrid–Barajas airport in the city’s San Blas-Canilejas district. According to Accor the hotel “is part of a project to implement a large logistics hub next to the A-2 that will serve the whole of the city, revitalising a strategic area of Madrid”. The group also said that the building had been constructed “in such a way as to completely insulate the hotel from outside noise and air traffic, as well as having a thermal transmission coefficient of almost zero”. The property joins the existing ibis Madrid Aeropuerto Barajas, located to the west of the airport, as well as several other ibis ...

Accor to open Pullman hotel in Zagreb’s City Island business hub – Business Traveller

15Dec

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Accor to open Pullman hotel in Zagreb’s City Island business hub – Business Traveller

Accor will debut its Pullman brand in Croatian next year, with a 193-room property in the country’s capital. Pullman Zagreb is scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2024, and will be located within the City Island development in Novi Zagreb. Features will include a restaurant, lobby bar, conference facilities and a wellness centre. City Island is situated south of the Sava River and Zagreb’s historical city centre, and around 15 minutes from Zagreb airport. The 80,000 sqm development will eventually house office space for more than 15,000 employees. This summer Accor announced a renewed push of its Pullman brand, envisaging it to become the global business hotel brand to cater to the post-Covid workforce, the new generation of business travellers, multi-hyphenates (people with multip...

Accor opens Raffles hotel in London’s Whitehall – Business Traveller

29Sep

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Accor opens Raffles hotel in London’s Whitehall – Business Traveller

The restoration project has retained many of the original design elements of the building, including hand-laid mosaic floors, oak panelling, magnificent chandeliers and a centrepiece marble staircase. The opening of Raffles London at The OWO follows the long-awaited unveiling of The Peninsula London earlier this month, situated on Grosvenor Place in Belgravia, overlooking Wellington Arch and Hyde Park Corner. The Peninsula London opens at Hyde Park Corner Commenting on the news Omer Acar, CEO of Raffles and Orient Express, said: “We are honoured to be part of this monumental project. Opening Raffles London at The OWO within this historical building is an incredible highlight and marks one of the most important moments in the history of the Raffles brand which has long been synonymous wi...

Ennismore and Accor launch ALL Inclusive Collection – Business Traveller

28Sep

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Ennismore and Accor launch ALL Inclusive Collection – Business Traveller

Ennismore and its joint venture partner Accor have officially launched the new ALL Inclusive Collection, bringing together the group’s all-inclusive resorts onto one digital platform. The collection initially comprises around 30 resorts under brands including Rixos, SO/ and Swissotel, with plans to expand to 50 properties in the next three years including selected Hyde, Mondrian, SLS and Fairmont resort hotels. Ennismore said that the collection “builds on the success of Rixos – a leader in the all-inclusive market”. Accor entered into a joint venture with the Turkish hotel group in 2017, and the brand now sits within the Ennismore lifestyle division. Ennismore also said that the “all-inclusive, all-exclusive” concept by Rixos forms the foundations of the ALL Inclusive Collection’s exper...

8Sep

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Accor debuts Pullman brand in South Africa – Business Traveller

This summer Accor announced a renewed push of its Pullman brand, envisaging it to become the global business hotel brand to cater to the post-Covid workforce, the new generation of business travellers, multi-hyphenates (people with multiple different jobs) and digital nomads. To read more about the brand, see our recent review of the refurbished Pullman Paris Montparnasse. Hotel review: Pullman Paris Montparnasse Commenting on the opening Paul Stevens, chief operating officer, premium, midscale and economy division, Middle East, Africa and Türkiye at Acco, said: “It is truly exciting to see Accor’s presence continue to grow in South Africa with the introduction of the first property under the Pullman brand. “The Pullman Cape Town City Centre is poised to amplify the brand’s presence and...

Accor strengthens its Indian presence with the signing of Grand Mercure in Agra

27Aug

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Accor strengthens its Indian presence with the signing of Grand Mercure in Agra

Accor introduces its first Grand Mercure property in Agra, a city renowned for its rich cultural heritage and the iconic Taj Mahal. The new property is strategically located in Fatehabad, a mere short drive away from the famous tourist site, ensuring a remarkable and memorable stay for guests. Scheduled for a grand opening in September 2023, the Grand Mercure Agra will boast 168 meticulously designed rooms, promising a comfortable stay for every guest. The culinary offerings of the hotel are set to make a lasting impression, encompassing a multi-cuisine, all-day dining restaurant, an elegant bar for savouring fine spirits, and an alfresco terrace restaurant. The hotel will further offer a meeting space of 300 sqm, equipped with the latest technology, alongside amenities including a state...

Accor set to add 23 Mercure and Grand Mercure hotels in Japan – Business Traveller

25Jul

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Accor set to add 23 Mercure and Grand Mercure hotels in Japan – Business Traveller

Meanwhile the following 11 properties will be reflagged under the Mercure offering: Hotel & Resorts Kyoto Miyazu, Hotel & Resorts Saga Karatsu, Hotel & Resorts Wakayama-Kushimoto, Royal Hotel Nagano, Hotel Toyama Tonami, Royal Hotel Tosa, Royal Hotel Daisen, Royal Hotel Noto, Royal Hotel Munakata, Active Resorts Miyagi Zao, Active Resorts Urabandai The hotels will begin renovation projects in the fourth quarter of this year, and are expected to join the Accor portfolio by the second quarter of 2024. The group currently operates 21 hotels across Japan, under its Pullman, Swissotel, Mercure, Novotel, ibis, ibis Styles and ibis Budget brands. Recent openings include the dual-branded Mercure Tokyu Stay Osaka Namba, which opened in December and comprises a Mercure hotel and a pr...