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📈 Launched in 2016 by the global spirits leader, Pernod Ricard's Data Portal aims to centralize, govern, distribute, and exploit data for its decentralized group, including 240 brands in 74 countries. Accor joined the initiative formed with JC Decaux, addressing digital age challenges by consolidating data to better understand diverse markets and meet three major data challenges: identification & use; sharing & reuse; understanding. A unique data entry point was established, enhancing the portal with tools like Data Catalog and datasets from Datawarehouse or Data Lake, and providing user training through a Data Academy.

📈 MKG Consulting annually predicts the evolution of key European hotel markets. France and the UK, the "pioneer" markets, recovered post-Covid but showed a relative activity slowdown in 2024. They are expected to perform better in 2025, though growth rates of KPIs are predicted to be below historic standards. Germany, DACH region, and Benelux anticipate an "alternating slowdown" with expansion and contraction phases. Despite a positive 2019/2024 growth, recent months have shown a slowdown and reduced occupancy rates. Southern Europe, with strong growth and occupancy rate increases in 2024, is expected to support prices in 2025 amidst moderate supply growth.

🏨 Atypio Hotel Group, led by Etienne Faguer and Jérôme Schibler, partners with ExtendAM and Bpifrance to add Novotel Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to its portfolio, targeting the goal set in November 2023. Founded in 2018 by hospitality veterans Schibler, François-Xavier Bertin, and Faguer, Atypio now has 25 hotels and aims for 10 to 20 management mandates in the coming years. By the end of 2024, Atypio will manage 12 hotels in Île-de-France and Occitanie, under a new partnership with real estate firm Covivio. The company's latest investment includes the acquisition of the 131-room Mercure Paris Boulogne from AccorInvest.

🏨 Investors and operators are favoring highly automated hotels with minimal staffing and luxury hotels for their profitability despite rising management costs. Over recent decades, one million luxury rooms have been added to the market, accelerating growth. By 2024, around 1,500 5-star establishments will constitute approximately 7.5% of the global supply (MKG Consulting).

🏦 Hospitality-ON's bimonthly magazine analyzes the luxury hospitality market, highlighting a growing clientele and changes due to new generations and traditional practices. Despite variances in figures, experts agree that the number of wealthy individuals and their cumulative billions in assets are rising. This wealth influx is driving high-end service offerings and luxury real estate developments. Approximately 75% of the affluent are successful entrepreneurs, contrasting with the 20% who have inherited their wealth.

📍 Thomas Hageman, executive at Meininger Hotels since 2018, oversees development in Europe. Meininger, a hybrid hostel concept leader, is fully owned by Holidaybreak Ltd, under the solid American investment fund Ares Management, shedding former ties with India's Cox & Kings. Focusing on commercial leases, typically 20-year terms, Meininger does not own properties and currently eschews management or franchise contracts, favoring partnerships for new builds or conversions.