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🏨 CBRE France, a leader in corporate real estate advisory, is expanding in the Living and Hospitality markets. With the hotel sector undergoing major changes, CBRE appointed Quentin Laferté as Director of the Hotel Investment Department and Quentin Peltier as Associate Director. The investment residential market in Europe topped asset transactions in 2024, and the strengthened team aims to better serve investor and operator needs in the evolving hotel industry.

📢 Paris hosting Food Hotel Tech on March 19-20, targets hospitality professionals seeking tech innovations, highlighting artificial intelligence (AI) transforming customer experience and hotel operations. The event advises identifying priorities like task automation, customer satisfaction, or sales boosts and choosing solutions that integrate with existing software, considering hotel size, target audience, and location for strategic alignment.

🏖 Nathalie DELATTRE, Minister of Tourism, launched the 3rd edition of the Tourism Jobs Week on March 17, lasting until March 23 in France and April 27 in the Overseas territories. The event showcases the diversity of tourism careers and training opportunities, targeting the public, particularly the youth and job seekers. Tourism represents 7.5% of France's GDP, with 100 million international visitors annually, and nearly 2 million direct and indirect jobs. By the end of 2024, the sector had 63,000 vacancies in hospitality and restaurants, with 59% of job openings considered difficult to fill.

🏖️ Skift Research reveals the global accommodation sector market, excluding campings, stands at $183 billion annually. Airbnb dominates with nearly 50% market share in Q1 2025, up from 28% in 2019. Booking's share increased from 14% to 18%, while Expedia's Vrbo (Abritel in France) fell from 11% to 9%. The top three OTAs now command 71% of the seasonal rental bookings market, up from 53% pre-COVID. Over 4200 French campings are listed on Booking in 2025, a significant rise from 2543 in 2023.

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🏨 European hotels increased in value by 2% in 2024 despite geopolitical tensions and climate change challenges. The growth attributes to lower interest rates, moderate RevPAR growth, and high international travel demand. South Europe leads with a near-complete recovery to pre-crisis values, while Eastern Europe shows the second-highest growth. Athens tops the list with an 11.8% increase, followed by Lisbon, Madrid, and Edinburgh with 6-8%. Munich (+4.8%), Frankfurt (+3.4%), Berlin (+2.8%), and Hamburg (+0.9%) benefit from trade fairs and business tourism. Paris remains Europe's most expensive city, while the European hotel industry anticipates 50 million more overnight stays in 2024 compared to the previous year, signaling strong tourism demand.

🏨 Aston Rubi City Suites offers 179 apartment-style rooms, each featuring a fully equipped kitchen with modern appliances, cooking and dining utensils. Options include Standard suites with a private bathroom and extra toilet; Superior suites with a sofa bed and two bathrooms; Deluxe one-bedroom suites with a studio space, large living area, two bathrooms, and a modern kitchen; and a Deluxe two-bedroom suite for up to four people. The Premier two-bedroom Loft boasts a unique two-level layout, private terrace with jacuzzi, and two bathrooms plus a guest toilet.

🏖️ Plages.fr, operating in France since 2024, highlights the Côte d'Azur as the area with the highest digitalization rate. The typical digitalized beach tourist in France is 25-40 years old, an employee who books in the evening, spends an average of 44 euros, and stays for about 5 days. By 2030, around 50% of French beach establishments will use reservation management systems and 40% will manage online bookings. As of the first quarter of 2025, Plages.fr has registered 50 new French establishments for the upcoming season, bringing the total to 100 on the platform. The French market is currently adopting restaurant management software tailored to beach service providers, and is expected to follow Italy's lead in using specialized beach management software integrated with hospitality services.