La Tribune de lHotellerie

🏥 Grasse, a city renowned for perfume-making, hosted over 2.5 million visitors and generated approximately €50 million in tourism revenue in 2024, despite only having 20 hotels, including a singular five-star hotel with 16 rooms. Courbet Héritage is addressing the luxury accommodation gap by offering an unparalleled ultra-luxury experience, aiming to attract discerning clients and boost the region's economic and cultural appeal. The Hôtel Victoria, a 19th-century architectural gem, is central to this vision, with plans for it to become Grasse's premier ultra-luxury hotel, complete with a spa and restaurant, merging timeless elegance with modern innovation.

🏨 The Corinthia Grand Hotel du Boulevard, featuring 30 exclusive suites, is set to open in March 2025 in Bucharest's most prestigious district. Online bookings for stays starting from March 10, 2025, are now available. This historical building, first opened in 1873, was the Romanian capital's pioneer hotel with electric lighting and an elevator. Managed by General Manager Jean-Pierre Misfud, the national monument hotel is revamping to offer a blend of elegant design, modern amenities, and anticipative high-level service. Dining options include the French-Romanian fusion restaurant Boulevard 73, Mediterranean SASS’ Restaurant & Lounge, and the Heritage Bar. A boutique spa, well-equipped fitness center, and thermal treatments provide a full well-being experience, complemented by partnerships with local artists.

🏨 Whitbread, parent company of UK's largest hotel brand Premier Inn, added over 1,000 new rooms to its UK network since March 2024, marking the fiscal year FY24/25. The 137-room Premier Inn at London Waterloo (North Lambeth) surpassed 1,000 new rooms early in the month, being the third new hotel in London since last spring. In total, Whitbread launched seven new Premier Inn and hub by Premier Inn hotels in the past eleven months in London, Cambridge, Bristol, York, and Torquay. Whitbread now offers over 85,500 hotel rooms to UK customers and sees potential for 125,000 rooms in the UK and Ireland, capitalizing on a favorable supply context and the continuous decline of independent hotels and guesthouses.

🏨 Hilton, throughout a year, announced new strategic partnerships and acquisitions, accelerating global hotel development. Over 1,430 hotels with 154,000 rooms signed for 2024, increasing the pipeline to roughly 3,600 hotels and over 498,500 rooms—an 8% year-over-year growth. In 2024, construction began on 88,500 rooms, marking Hilton's highest construction level in history, maintaining the lead with about one in five hotel rooms under construction worldwide set to join the company's portfolio.