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🏡 Fiermontina, a boutique hotel in Lecce, Italy, won the 3E PRIX at the Hôtel & Lodge Awards 2024 in the Prestige category. Just 7 minutes from the historic center, the hotel features 18 custom-designed rooms and suites by French interior design firm Laboratoire Design. Guests are treated to Italian furniture, couture textiles, antiques, and artworks, including sculptures by Fernand Léger in the garden. Tailored experiences and dining options are available, as well as a pool surrounded by olive trees. The article appeared in issue 134 of Hôtel & Lodge dedicated to the 2024 awards.

🏅 Parisian restaurants experienced a 16.9% increase in sales and a 10.18% rise in the number of transactions during the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, highlighting the economic impact of major international events on local businesses, as reported by the all-in-one commerce platform Lightspeed.

🏖️ The One&Only Moonlight Basin, set to be the first One&Only resort in the United States and the brand's inaugural mountain resort, is scheduled to open in Montana, USA, in summer 2025. SIRO Boka Place in Montenegro, the second wellness hospitality hotel by the brand and its first in Europe, is expected to launch in the first half of 2025 with a fitness-focused guest experience. The hotel will feature a state-of-the-art fitness center, wellness programs, a recovery lab with various therapies, and outdoor activities like hiking and biking around the UNESCO World Heritage site of Kotor Bay. Additionally, Kerzner will open 8 new retreat villas on October 1 at the Bab Al Shams resort in the desert, with further projects like One&Only Papagayo and One&Only Santa Maria de Xala in the pipeline.

🌊 Summer 2024 saw fewer French travelers compared to the previous year, dropping by 2 points to 60%. Despite this, 61% considered vacationing within France, while 50% looked abroad, favoring sunny destinations. Mediterranean cities topped the list of searched destinations with Marrakech and Tunis leading. European cities represented half of the top 10 searched destinations, with Ajaccio and Point-à-Pitre being the only French cities included.

🏠 Gîtes de France generates €2.2 billion in direct and indirect economic impact in 2023, creating 31,520 full-time jobs and investing €841.6 million annually in heritage property maintenance. Founded in 1955, it now includes 42,000 member owners and offers over 55,000 accommodations, positioned as a vital rural ecosystem player in France.

🏥 Hospitals and hotels share common goals in providing a positive experience and caring for their guests. Both sectors focus on offering a safe, comfortable environment and ensuring well-being. However, hospitals face a paradox where the immediately visible aspects, like room quality and meals, can disproportionately affect patient satisfaction, overshadowing the less visible but critical medical care. This "halo effect" can skew perceptions of care quality. Additionally, the service profit chain model suggests employee satisfaction, driven by good working conditions, impacts patient satisfaction. On the market side, accreditations and certifications may be underused by hospitals to communicate quality, echoing practices from the hospitality industry.

🏆 TheFork reports a challenging start for Parisian restaurants during the summer due to a drop in international bookings between -16% and -30% prior to the Games and a -32% decrease in national tourists the week before. However, during the two-week Games period, foreign tourist reservations rose by +25% and French tourist bookings increased by 21% compared to summer 2023.

🏡 On September 17, 2024, StyQR highlighted the advantages of classifying a property as a "meublé de tourisme" for credibility and authenticity. The article's original publication was on September 12, 2024. For more details, visit the canonical link: https://styqr.fr/2024/09/17/pourquoi-classer-son-logement-meuble-de-tourisme/.

🌍 Forrester's report "Global Travel Market Forecast, 2024-2028" projects that global travel expenditures will surpass pre-pandemic 2019 levels, reaching over $2 trillion in 2024, with an average annual growth rate of 6% between 2024 and 2028. The recovery is driven by strong travel demand in the United States and Europe. The analysis covers 14 markets including Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and the US.

🏢 From October 2023 to January 2024, 20 ENSCI students, guided by 3 industry professionals, developed projects on new ways to live and host in hospitality. They explored various settings and functions such as sleeping and dining. Resulting in 20 projects across 5 themes, these will be showcased at EquipHotel's "Innovation Lab" in Paris from November 3-7, 2024. "Osons" is the 2024 theme, expressing a desire for bold new ideas in hospitality.