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🏨 2024, Bruxelles: 35 hotel chain leaders from the Global Hotel Alliance gathered at Corinthia Astoria. GHA, founded by Kempinski, Rydges, Pan Pacific, and Wyndham, now includes Minor, Corinthia, Leela, Rotana, and Cinnamon. In 2024, 35 million Discovery program members booked 11 million nights, generating $2.7 billion. This marks steady growth, with 2025's first quarter seeing an 11% increase in nights and a 15% revenue boost. GHA plans to expand its Green Collection.

📍 Handwritten Collection opens three new hotels in Brittany, Corsica, and the Basque Country. Greet expands with four locations in Marseille, Dijon, Limoges, and Saint-Nazaire. TRIBE introduces TRIBE Pantin, its fifth hotel in Paris. The Hôtel de l’Abbaye Le Tronchet, near Mont-Saint-Michel, offers a historic 12th-century setting. Mercure Ax-les-Thermes combines modern amenities with a thermal station in the Pyrenees. Accor’s expansion reflects France's hospitality growth opportunities, as highlighted by Katell Bourgeois, Vice-President of Development, France.

📈 2023 saw a rebound in business travel, with 2024 confirming this trend. 2025 is set to be a year of confidence in the sector. Key developments include NDC standards in aviation, passenger rail liberalization, hotel modernization, enhanced non-financial reporting, AI advancements, and upcoming e-invoicing. CDS has pursued a European growth strategy through acquisitions and new investments despite geopolitical instability, as stated by Ziad MINKARA, CEO of S4BT.

🌐 In 2024, Booking.com had over 16,000 certified accommodations, which increased to 25,000 in 2025. Danielle D’Silva highlighted a 2025 focus on supporting partners' sustainability certification via the "partner pathway." 67% of global travelers are interested in tech solutions to mitigate overtourism. 38% seek better transport infrastructure. By 2025, tourism sustainability is crucial for 79% of travelers, and 73% want their spending to aid local communities. Collaboration in the industry is key for meaningful solutions.

🚢 Saint-Nazaire, 16 juin 2025. L’Orient Express Corinthian, le plus grand voilier de croisière au monde, a été mis à l'eau. Mesurant 220 mètres, ce yacht possède 54 suites, trois mâts de 100 mètres et une propulsion hybride combinant voiles rigides SolidSail et GNL. Fruit d'une collaboration entre Accor et Chantiers de l’Atlantique, ce navire intègre technologie avancée, design artistique et durabilité environnementale, marquant une étape majeure dans les croisières haut de gamme.

✈️ Airfairness's new service, Flight Navigator, uses AI to analyze travel disruptions, aligning with regulations like Europe's Regulation (EC) No. 261/2004, offering compensations up to €600. Daily potential claims could reach $250 million. Originating in July 2024 after a global software outage, the tool was developed by Máuhan M. Zonoozy and Chloe Meuse. Toronto-based, Airfairness aims to lead consumer protection in travel, leveraging AI's rapid advancement.

📑 Mandarin Oriental, en 2024, présent dans 27 pays avec 43 hôtels, 12 résidences, et 26 Exceptional Homes, a publié son 14ᵉ rapport annuel sur le développement durable. Le rapport souligne une réduction de 21% de l'intensité énergétique et de 30% des émissions carbone depuis 2012. L'hôtel de Genève utilise désormais le système GeniLac pour son chauffage et climatisation, exploitant les eaux profondes du lac Léman, illustrant une approche innovante et respectueuse de l'environnement.

🏨 30 juin et 1er juillet 2025, Paris: HOT: Hotels Tomorrow, a new event format for the European hotel investment community, focuses on real solutions and firsthand insights. It offers a platform for investors, developers, operators, and innovators to engage in future-oriented discussions. The event features conferences, panels, and workshops with credible speakers, exploring industry-shaping topics like transactions, legal frameworks, financing, asset management, technology, talent, innovation, consumer trends, and emerging concepts.

📊 Hospitality Operator Forum's 30th edition highlights transformation, driven by people, with insights from Federico Gonzales Tejera and Vanguélis Panayotis, focusing on data's role in decision-making for the future. Europe shows varied market dynamics: Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe are growth engines, with Spain excelling, while core Europe maintains moderate growth, except for the UK. The forum aims to assess and prepare for the next three decades.