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📈 Celebrating International Women's Day, influential women in hospitality are highlighted. Maud Bailly leads Sofitel, MGallery Hotel Collection, and Emblems Collection, with 46% of Sofitels eco-certified. Solenne Ojea-Devys, at OKKO HOTELS' helm, commits to CSR with 100% team training and impactful social initiatives. María Zarraluqui, VP at Meliá Hotels International, fuses global expansion with sustainability and is a Women in Hospitality co-founder.

🌾 Le Salon International de l’Agriculture, événement annuel à Paris, a enregistré une hausse de sa fréquentation en 2025 avec plus de 607 000 visiteurs, soit une progression de +0,64%. Cependant, contrairement à l'édition 2024 qui avait vu une augmentation des performances hôtelières, l'édition 2025 n'a pas reflété cette tendance positive dans le secteur hôtelier francilien.

🏛 Experimental Group opens the 5-star Hôtel Experimental Marais with 43 rooms on March 11, 2025, in Paris, featuring the Temple & Chapon restaurant headed by Chef Mélanie Serre. Acquired in October 2024, the hotel, redesigned by Tristan Auer, offers neo-Gothic architecture, a large restaurant seating 100 guests, a cocktail bar, spa, and pool. Temple & Chapon serves grill-focused American cuisine with dishes like porterhouse and T-bone steaks, rockefeller oysters, and crab cakes.

📢 Join the exclusive webinar with SiteMinder and Revbell on optimizing high season performance on April 3, 2025, at 11:00 CET. Gain insights from 125 million hotel bookings discussed by Amaury Bize of SiteMinder and Romain Charié, CEO of Revbell. Sharpen strategies to dominate the local market and boost revenue. Register for this strategic exchange and get ahead of competitors.

🏂 Pierre & Vacances, with over 50 years experience, leads the mountain hospitality with 66 residences, 14 of which are Premium, across 23 Alpine resorts offering 20,000 beds. Winter 2025 results: 99% occupancy rate during the week of February 15 with a 3% rise in average spending to €2743; Premium residences at 93% occupancy. Top 3 stations: Portes du Soleil, 3 Vallées, Arcs Paradiski. Foreign clientele rose to 42%, particularly from Belux and UK markets. Résidence Capella in Avoriaz is set to open winter 2025 with a 52% reduction in energy consumption. Expansion includes 6 new openings in Spain in 2025: Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Alicante, Géron, Empuria Brava, and Andorra.

🎮 Radisson Hotel Group launched "Esports Ready by Radisson Hotels," a program for esports teams and organizers. Partnered with Spacefwd, it offers tailored services and facilities. The esports market is projected to reach $13.7 billion by 2032, with growth in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East & Africa. Over 100 Radisson properties are "Esports Ready," including Radisson Blu Hotel in Cologne and others in Antwerp, Galway, Copenhagen, and Delhi.

Centara Hotels & Resorts s’engage dans une année de transformation avec des rénovations majeures, des nouvelles marques et des ouvertures clés en 2025 ● Neuf nouveaux hôtels et complexes ouvriront…

📱 Atout France launched its AI travel assistant, MarIAnne, in February 2024 to offer personalized services and insights on visitor preferences for France.fr. Since its launch, MarIAnne has registered over 15,000 selections in 15 languages, generated over 7,000 itineraries, and featured more than 73,000 tourist points of interest, with a user satisfaction rate of 92%. The top-searched themes by international travelers were gastronomy, culture, and heritage, with Paris and regions like Bordeaux and Provence being the most popular destinations. The upcoming version of MarIAnne will focus on accessibility by integrating the Tourisme & Handicap database. Atout France aims to use AI for data qualification, personalization, and to encourage niche tourism development. Sophie Mandrillon and Eve Le Gall of Atout France emphasize the transformative potential of AI, paralleling the digital revolution of the early 2000s, and envision more personalized AI travel assistants that accompany travelers throughout their journey in multiple languages.

🏕 European Camping Group (ECG) acquires two new campsites in France, expanding its presence under the Marvilla Parks brand. In Côte d'Azur, the 4-star Le Saint Louis campsite covers 7 hectares with 200 pitches, located near Cannes. In Brittany, the 4-star Le Helles campsite provides 147 pitches over 3 hectares with beach access. ECG now manages 108 campsites, including three abroad in the Netherlands and Spain, and renews its partnership with the Dumont family for sites in Bidart and Portugal.

🎸 On March 1, 2025, The Land of Legends opened the first Nickelodeon Land in Türkiye and the country's only Nickelodeon Hotels and Resorts with 238 keys. The new attractions feature three fun zones, a hotel, and character meet-and-greets, marking a significant milestone for Türkiye's tourism and entertainment industry. The collaboration highlights the growth of Türkiye's hospitality and entertainment sector with a global brand. Visitors to Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts Antalya can enjoy interactive experiences with characters such as the Ninja Turtles and Dora.