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🏢 La Loi Européenne sur l’Accessibilité (EAA) établit des exigences en matière d’accessibilité pour divers produits et services, devant être pleinement appliquée d'ici le 28 juin 2025. Environ 87 millions d'Européens bénéficieront de cette loi. Les hôteliers doivent rendre les sites web, applications mobiles, kiosques en libre-service, et terminaux de paiement conformes. Des sanctions pourraient être imposées par les autorités de l'UE pour non-conformité, bien que des exemptions existent pour les micro-entreprises de moins de 10 employés.

🏖 A World For Travel, a forum on sustainable tourism, returns to Seville for its second consecutive year during the Travel Innovation Summit (TIS) from October 23-24. Participants include the Radisson Hotel Group, AXA, Sabre, Geotourist, Compagnie des Alpes, Intrepid, and the WTTC, as well as countries like Greece, Oman, and Spain. The event focuses on ESG (Environmental, Sustainability, and Governance) with the theme "Taking action." Ticket sales and award submissions—for categories such as Climate Change, Environmental Impact, Technological Feats, Economic Progress, and Societal Development—are open.

🎵 Mylène Farmer's concerts on September 27-28, 2024, at Stade de France, are expected to boost Paris hotel activity, with a 7% average rate increase and a 2-point occupancy rate improvement. Doyield forecasts an 8-10% revenue growth for Parisian hotels, especially those near the venue. The projections are based on data like Taylor Swift's concert impact in May, which raised revenue by 16% per available room. A 20% longer booking window is also observed due to high demand for the sold-out shows. Contact: Chedi Chaari, Email: contact@doyield.com, Phone: +33 6 59 59 19 00.

🌍 A globe-trotter fluent in six languages has settled in various locations including Venice, Rio de Janeiro, and currently Gabon with his family. Founded in 2005, his publishing house specializes in guides to unique and secret places. As a jury member for the Hôtel & Lodge Awards 2024, he appreciates the modern design of recently opened hotels and values a hotel's location, aesthetics, charm, atmosphere, history, size, human touch, and service quality. He enjoys personalized touches like receiving a printed daily newspaper in his language, local recommendations, and the luxury of a prepared bath with flower petals, citing North Island in the Seychelles as an example.

📦 Miele, founded in July 1899 in Germany, celebrates 125 years in 2024. Launched the first drum washing machine in 1924 for laundries, hotels, hospitals, and sanatoriums, leading to today's Professional unit. The last decade saw significant investments in medical technology. In the previous year, Miele Professional achieved a record turnover, contributing €891 million to Miele's consolidated turnover, about 15% of the group's revenue. Miele remains family-owned, operates 15 production sites (8 in Germany), and employs over 3,000 staff within Miele's 22,700 global workforce.

🏡 Inwood Hotels acquired the Five Seas Hotel, a 5-star luxury establishment with 45 rooms and suites, located in Cannes between La Croisette and the Palais des Festivals. Dona Bertarelli, a Swiss-Italian businesswoman, sold the hotel which features a restaurant, bar by Le Roof, seminar rooms, rooftop pool, fitness room, and a 250 m² spa. In 2023, Inwood Hotels began expanding on the Côte d'Azur, also acquiring La Malmaison in Nice and the Imperial Garoupe at Cap d'Antibes for renovation.

🏨 Hotels offering room rates over $1,000 per night (average daily rate/ADR) increased from 150 in 2019 to 460. This surge is attributed to revenge travel and high-income travelers post-pandemic. Multigenerational travel has also led to a demand for larger and more luxurious room types like multiple-bedroom suites. The phenomenon of "four-digit" room rates has tripled in the Americas and Europe, and more than doubled in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa since 2019.

🏡 Inwood Hotels acquired the Five Seas Hotel, a 5-star luxury hotel in Cannes with 45 rooms and suites, positioned between La Croisette and the Palais des Festivals. The hotel, managed by Squircle Capital in recent years and formerly owned by Dona Bertarelli, opened in 2011 and boasts a rooftop pool, fitness room, and a 250 m2 spa. Inwood's expansion on the Côte d'Azur started in 2023 with the purchase of La Malmaison in Nice and l’Impérial Garoupe in Cap d’Antibes, both undergoing renovations for a spring 2025 reveal. The company, owned by Jean-Paul Bize since 2008, plans to implement the European Ecolabel and unveil its CSR charter by 2025.

🛒 "Eco-responsible tips for reducing waste in hotels" article published on StyQR, with a publication date of 2024-09-03 and a last modification on 2024-09-02. The article is available in multiple languages, including French, English, Portuguese, and Spanish, offering insights into managing ecological dilemmas and cost issues related to hotel waste. Images in the article have dimensions of 2560x1696 pixels, in JPEG format. The content is shared by Marine on social media platforms, including a Facebook page with the handle @julien-styqr-admin.

💰 UMIH, the main employers' union in the hospitality sector, decided to launch its own mutual insurance in response to feedback about the current offering being "too expensive and dysfunctional." This move is partly a reaction to persistent issues with the service platform operated by Klesia and Malakoff Humanis, managed by Vivinter, which has been experiencing permanent bugs. This initiative could also mark a significant impact of Thierry Marx's presidency. Further developments are anticipated.