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While the occupancy rates of French hotels have seen a slight decline (-2.2% during the summer of 2023 compared to summer 2022), the increase in prices and the return of international clientele are contributing to boosting the sector.

Vianney Lautrous, Asset Management Supervisor at Extendam and responsible for Extendam’s hotel industry barometer, discusses the figures of this record-breaking summer in an interview for L’Industrie Hôtelière.

Find the full interview in the September issue of L’Industrie Hôtelière

Because health concerns all of us, À Vos Soins association has created Le MarSOINS, a mobile healthcare truck going through the Western territories to diminish healthcare access inequalities. Le MarSOINS’ teams set up in marketplaces, high schools, rural areas, etc., offering individual, free screenings accessible to everyone. They also inform and guide beneficiaries toward standard healthcare services.

In this way, Le MarSOINS brings healthcare for all within an anonymous, compassionate, and trustworthy framework.

An amazing project that Les Grandes Idées applauds!

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Enhancing and revitalizing commercial areas at the entrance to cities: that is the government’s ambition. The idea is to enable the development of housing, offices, public facilities, but also to give nature its place in these urban spaces often referred to as “ugly France.” This program falls within the framework of the Climate and Resilience Law, which decrees net zero artificialization of land (ZAN) by 2050.

45 medium-sized cities have already applied to benefit from support under the second phase of the “Action cœur de ville” program launched in February. Olivia Grégoire, Minister of Commerce, and Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, are set to announce a call for projects to encourage about twenty demonstrators among local authorities!

Read the full article on Les Echos.

EXTENDAM continues its investments in the Iberian Peninsula, where it recently acquired the Blue Sea Calas Marina in Benidorm. The company has now purchased the property and business of the M.Ou.Co. in Porto, a 4-star establishment that opened last year and has 62 rooms. For this new asset, the hotel private equity investor is initiating a partnership with the coliving specialist Outsite. With nearly 5,000 square meters of space, the asset will undergo significant repositioning, including the provision of coworking spaces and services, as well as a revamped food & beverage offering.

Read the full article on CFNEWSIMMO

While women make up for half of the workforce in France, they represent only 10% of entrepreneurs in innovation. This gap cannot be explained by any logical economic reason.

Women have the ability to build, lead, innovate, initiate, unite and transform. The WILLA incubator aims to reveal their still underestimated potential, overshadowed by an outdated economic and societal model. To achieve this, WILLA supports women in their entrepreneurial and innovative endeavors with the aim to inspire, encourage and educate them!

Graduated with a specialized master’s degree in entrepreneurship from HEC Paris, Flore Egnell decided to commit 100% to entrepreneurial parity and joined WILLA as a program manager before becoming its CEO in 2020.

Explore her belief and path in her interview with Changemakers Times!

It was in 2020, during the health crisis, that Loïc Weinhard decided to develop his project. The long queues caused by the restrictions put in place to combat the pandemic highlighted our strong dependence on grocery stores and the vulnerability of our societal model in the event of a crisis. Struck by this realization, Loïc Weinhard launched Agrotonome, a solution to contribute, albeit to a lesser extent, to solving this problem.

Agrotonome designs and sells practical and sustainable wooden and stainless-steel garden-composters for balconies, terraces, and gardens, all 100% made in France. The goal is to enable everyone, even those with limited outdoor space, to reconnect with the nurturing earth while enjoying the pleasure of gardening, taking into account our living spaces to make our current societies more resilient, ecological, and sustainable.

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The Radisson Blu Hotel Biarritz has recently been acquired by EXTENDAM and Annie Famose Group.

Radisson Blu Hotel Biarritz boasts 150 rooms, two restaurants, a 1,000 sqm rooftop with a pool, a spa, and nine seminar rooms covering a total area of over 10,000 sqm. During 2024-2025 winter season, the hotel will undergo a significant renovation plan to refurbish all of its rooms and lobbies.

Read full article in Business Immo

Founded in August 2017, Unisoap charity organization starts from a simple fact: 3 million people in France do not have access to hygiene products, while 51 million soaps are discarded by hotels every year.

Therefore Pauline Grumel establishes the association and joins an ecological and sustainable movement aimed at promoting sustainable tourism, involving both professionals of the sector and individuals. To achieve this, Unisoap collects soap from hotels (that would otherwise be discarded), recycles them within a supported employment workplace, and donates them to partner charitable organizations.

The goal is to shift this waste into resources for vulnerable populations, thereby providing access to hygiene for as many people as possible.

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Invited by Nathalie Croisé in GoodCulture, the podcast from the media outlet The Good that gives a voice to socially engaged artists, Maud Caubet presents her perspective on architecture as a major art. According to her, there is no doubt that the architect is a responsible player, able to change the world, accelerate shifts, and facilite interactions among users.

Listen to the podcast on The Good

Based in Bordeaux, with a wide range of areas of expertise, taad is convinced that the role of an architect goes beyond mere design and extends to the act of construction. The agency seizes, questions, and develops its projects with the determination not to let the profession divest itself of its inherent expertise.

Offering an architecture that is experienced and practiced, dealing with boundaries and the in-between, working in harmony with the landscape, and revealing each client’s culture – these are the many ambitions showcased in this special edition through interviews and projects narrated by Annabelle Ledoux, founder of Les Grandes Idées.

Discover taad summer edition on Archistorm