Author: lgi

While Asian and American customers will not come back in Europe for several months, even several years, while travel remains limited by health restrictions and remote work often remains the norm, the cards are being reshuffled between players in the tourism market. First to rebound, the economic business hotel sector is once again proving its resilience.

Jean-Marc Palhon, Chairman of EXTENDAM explains: “Two or even three-star hotels, between 50 and 120 euros per night, have quickly seen executives and sales agents compelled to go back to work. More than 80% of this clients is domestic customers. They are actually less dependent on international and tourism customers, the economic category of business hotel industry offers an interesting resilience in the context we know”.

In full development before the health crisis, the sector has seen its transformation amplified. Changes in customer behaviours and new trends are leading the sector to diversify both geographically and functionally. As a key player in the city, the hotel is opening up to new uses.

Find the complete article of Elisa Nolet and Jean-Marc Palhon’s interview in the currently distributed Investissement Conseils issue.

Did you know the Amoco Cadiz sank off the coast of Brittany (1978) or the bulk carrier Wakashio off the coast of Mauritius (2020), hair was used to absorb some of the oil spilt in the waters ?

Insulating, resistant, fertilising, biosorbent, cut hair has many interesting properties. It is a waste produced in increasing quantities and which is currently largely unexploited.

Founded in 2015, Coiffeurs Justes is an association from the Var region in France.  Its ambition :  recover and recycle this organic material by uniting professionals and rising awareness of this sustainable practice among them. Thanks to a simple bag, the association helps hair collection, storage and transportation to structures where it can be processed. Fertilizers, oil filters, thermal and phonic insulators… uses are numerous and promising ! Coiffeurs Justes, a project to explore here

“What is our project for humanity? I am sure we are able to adapt to climate change and go over short-term parameters, but now we need the intelligence of will at every level of our society”.

During the national lock down, the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, launched the forum “What do we do for tomorrow ?” to think together about what the world will be made of after the Covis-19 worldwide experience. Coupled with an exhibition, the forum brings together more than 195 tribunes, poems, drawings, experimental writing by architects, city planners, real estate developers, engineers… Including the architect Maud Caubet. She shared there her vision of the city, thus of life, in a great op-ed currently exhibited at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal.

Discover it at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal or to thanks to the online forum with all the other inputs.

In France, the amount of waste we produce has doubled since 1960. Yet more than 90% of food waste is not recycled. It is this assessment that made Les Alchimistes decide to act. Since its founding in 2016, Les Alchimistes’s ambition consist in reintegrating 10% of food waste into a virtuous cycle through composting. Its offer is adapted to all profiles (professionals, local authorities or individuals) whether for waste collection or the sale of this ultra rich in organic matter Super Compost. Circular, local and waste-fighting economy, Les Alchimistes have got it all figured out. Discover their project here

Although it is still far from its cruising speed, the hotel sector recorded a recovery of activity in June, according to the 5th edition of the monthly EXTENDAM barometer, analysing the Covid-19 impact on business hotel industry in Europe.

“Democracy is a muscle that needs to be trained daily to be effective”.

A platform for  space and collective life co-construction, Fluicity is a socially useful solidarity company founded in 2015 by Julie de Pimodan. The objective of this civic tech player? To improve democracy at a local scale. First a journalist in the Middle East during the Arab Springs, then a Google employee, Julie de Pimodan founded Fluicity in 2015 and offers a societal innovation that could change the way we approach politics and collective interest development.

Julie answered Les Grandes Idées in a new #ChangemakersTimes interview 

“Let’s go back to simplicity, to housing as a multi-purpose shelter that evolves and changes following days, seasons and external events” suggests Maud Caubet.

Culture, finance, politics, industry, architecture, city planning… no sector is forgotten in “Reinventing France”, the special summer issue of La Tribune. Maud Caubet shared in this article her vision of architecture and urban planning.

“All the sector players have been in the starting blocks for two months and have increased their energy, innovative strength and solidarity to prepare for an optimal recovery”.

Jean-Marc Palhon, Chairman of EXTENDAM, the European leading private equity firm in the business hotel industry, speaks for Forbes on the sector’s recovery and the outlook for investment. In this forum, he underlines the gap in takeovers between segments, with the business hotel industry once again demonstrating its greater resilience. Back to his full opinion editorial.

“Porto has very good assets for a good recovery by 2021.“

Last June 17, EXTENDAM and Laurent Gauze inaugurated the brand new ibis Porto Centro Mercado Do Bolhao, in the heart of the city’s historic centre. It is a very special ibis hotel since it is designed according to the new Full Plaza concept implemented by Accor to destandardise the interiors of its establishments. A place with a unique design in the heart of a more than attractive destination. It brings to 16 the number of EXTENDAM hotels on the Iberian Peninsula.