In Brief

Accorhotels acquires

Accorhotels has signed an agreement to acquire Mövenpick Hotels and Resorts for €482 million, consolidating the group's footprint in Europe and the Middle East. Mövenpick currently operates 84 hotels in 27 countries with plans to open an additional 42 properties by 2021.

Holiday Inn goes large

IHG has opened its largest Holiday Inn Express hotel in France, a 305-room ‘Next Generation’ property at Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport. The hotel is connected to the airport’s Terminal 1 and has a 24-hour Express Café & Bar and several meeting and event spaces.

Wyndham brand move

The Wyndham Hotel Group is uniting its brands by adding the Wyndham name to those that do not already bear it. A ‘by Wyndham’ suffix will be applied to 12 brands including several with an extensive presence in Europe, namely upscale brand Dolce Hotels and Resorts, midscale brand Ramada, and economy brands Days Inn and Super 8.

Advantage on the up

The Advantage Travel Partnership has revealed that its members booked 4.9 million worldwide corporate hotel rooms last year, an 8.4% rise. The average stay was up slightly to 1.92 nights. Data was gathered from Advantage’s corporate hotel programme of more than 30,000 hotels.