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Accor Hotels

ACCOR and Ennismore Partner to Create New Lifestyle Brand

2020-11-30 by Phil Butler

The Hoxton

Accor has announced a new partnership with Ennismore, the parent company of The Hoxton hotel chain, to create an all new lifestyle brand.

Tags: Accor, Accor Group, Accor Hotels, Dario Cecchini, Delano, Ennismore, food and beverage, Gaurav Bhushan, hotel deals, hotel mergers, Hyde, Lifestyle, lifestyle hotels, Mondrian, Sam Nazarian, sbe Group, Sharan Pasricha, Working From_

Accor Group Opens Mercure Timisoara

2020-10-13 by Argophilia Travel News

Mercure Timisoara

Last week Accor opened the Mercure Timisoara, the group’s first hotel in the western Romania city.

Tags: Accor, Accor Group, Accor Hotels, Mercure Timisoara, Romania hotels, Romania travel, Timisoara

Accor Creates Coronavirus “ALL Heartist Fund” to Aid Employees

2020-04-05 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sebastien Bazin

Accor Group announced last week the launch of the “ALL Heartist Fund” to help its employees affected by coronavirus (COVID-19).

Tags: Accor, Accor Group, Accor Hotels, Coronavirus 2019, Sébastien Bazin, World hotels

FastBooking Report Reveals Recipe for Direct Distribution

2017-09-04 by Phil Butler

FastBooking

A new report and a revealing graphic from FastBooking reminds us that hotelier uptake for using more and more advanced tools and strategies needs to be incremental. The report entitled “A guide for independent hotels: budget hotels, small luxury hotels, and hotel groups” shows how CRM and other energies need to work hand-in-hand with websites, social, SEO and SEM, email marketing, metasearch and other facets to spur direct bookings.

Tags: Accor, Accor Hotels, Bookings, CRM, distribution, FastBooking, hotel bookings, hotel marketing, hotel revenue, Hotel rooms, Jean-Louis Boss, rooms, rooms sales

AccorHotels Appoints First Chief Disruption Officer?

2016-05-09 by Phil Butler

Disruptor

Thinault Viort (at left) has been named the very first Chief Disruption and Growth Officer of AccorHotels. The move is reportedly to keep pace with a fast-moving consumer market. In one of the most interestingly worded press releases ever, a European mega hotel company touts an exec intent on shaking things up? According to the news […]

Tags: Accor Hotels, Accor investors, Accor shares, Accor stocks, AccorHotels, EPITA, hotel stocks, Sébastien Bazin, Thinault Viort

Teimuraz Y. Chichiashvili Receives “Man of the Year” Leadership Award

2016-03-29 by Phil Butler

Chichiashvili

The organizers of the Russian Hospitality Awards and the organizers of the 11th Annual Conference on investments in hotel businesses of Russia and the CIS (RHIC) have jointly awarded Teimuraz Yu Chichiashvili, President of PATERO Development, the first ever “Man of the Year” award for leadership.

Tags: Accor Hotels, hotels development, IBIS Hotels, Mercure Hotels, Moscow hotels, PATERO Development, RHIC, Russian Hospitality Awards, Teimuraz Yu Chichiashvili, Timur Chichiashvili

Accor Sells Two Hotels & Opens More

2012-08-26 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Accor

In News from French hotel group Accor SA, the hoteliers announced this morning their sale of two MGallery hotels. One hotel in Germany and another in the Netherlands were sold for an estimated €44 million euros. Accor also announced leasing back the hotels in a 15 year deal with an option to renew.

Tags: Accor Group, Accor Hotels, Europe hotels, German hotels, hotel sales, MGallery, Morocco hotels, Netherlands hotels

Accor Hotels’ First MGallery in Downtown Doha

2012-04-03 by Phil Butler

Accor Facebook images

Accor Group, the world’s leading hotel operator with some 4400 plus hotels in 90 countries, has just announced a deal with Qatar’s Msheireb Hospitality for operating the Msheireb Downtown Doha project., an Accor Hotels MGallery hotel in the city’s prime business district. This luxury boutique offering expands upon traditional Qatari hospitality with a truly original thematic scheduled to open in 2015.

Tags: Accor, Accor Group, Accor Hotels, Al Mohannadi, Asia hotels, China hotels, Denis Hennequin, Doha tourism, hotel industry, Ibis, Latin America hotels, Mercure, MGallery, Msheireb Downtown Doha, Novotel, Pullman, Qatar, Singapore hotels, World hotels

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