Hospitality news today, 2 September 2026: from openings to appointments and controversies, here’s what stood out in the sector today.
🇫🇷 National
🏛️ Scandal
The Hôtel de Crillon is the subject of an investigation by Libération detailing a “culture where anything goes”: recurring theft of items from stockrooms, internal sharing of voyeuristic CCTV footage of female guests, and the dismissal of staff considered too critical. The revelations come just as the Paris palace hotel secured a three-year renewal of its official “palace” status from Atout France — a distinction withdrawn in the same round from properties including the Mandarin Oriental and the Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz. Internal distrust is reported to have deepened further since the tragic death of an employee.
#Crillon #PalaceHotel #Scandal
🏝️ Concierge Services
Guestadom is formally confirming in September its long-term establishment on Réunion Island, where the company already manages around fifty properties with 13 local concierge partners. Two local hires and a partnership with SREPEN to help protect the Réunion harrier (petit tamarin des Hauts) accompany this responsible development drive.
#Reunion #ConciergeServices #Development
🏨 Opening
B&B Hotels has inaugurated its new property in Marne-la-Vallée Torcy Vaires, a 95-room hotel just steps from the RER A station and Disneyland Paris. It is the group’s 10th hotel in Seine-et-Marne and 78th in the Île-de-France region.
#Opening #IledeFrance #BBHotels
🤝 Inclusion
In the Orne department, Le Relais des Champs will open on 8 October in Gacé as France’s first hotel designed to welcome tourists, families and people with severe multiple disabilities alike, without distinction. Backed by the association Les Tout-Petits, the property will have 17 rooms, four of them fully adapted.
#Inclusion #Orne #Opening
🍽️ Restaurants
Former staff of Pierre Sang, a “Top Chef” television personality, have come forward alleging untenable working conditions and hygiene failings in the Paris chef’s kitchens; Sang has dismissed the claims as “rumours”. The case reopens the wider debate over working conditions in professional kitchens.
#Restaurants #WorkingConditions #Paris
👨🍳 Departure
Michelin-starred chef Thibaut Ruggeri has been removed from L’Ermitage, the fine-dining restaurant at the Abbaye de Fontevraud, after twelve years at its helm. The departure follows disagreements with the hotel-restaurant’s management over strategy and operations.
#Fontevraud #FineDining #Departure
🌍 International
🏨 Germany, Hotel Real Estate | The sale of the luxury Adlon Hotel on Pariser Platz in Berlin is currently on hold. Real estate company Jagdfeld announced that the required majority among shareholders of the Adlon fund was not reached: 86% of them voted in favor of the sale, but they hold only 71.04% of the capital, whereas a qualified majority of 75% was required.
#Germany #Berlin #RealEstate
✨ Appointment
Maximilien Provis has been named the new hotel manager of the Andaz Bali. With more than 13 years of international experience, he has previously held management roles at the Park Hyatt Seoul, the Langham Jakarta and the Swissôtel Jakarta.
#Bali #Appointment #Indonesia
🏨 Rebranding
The Grand Bohemian Orlando is being rebranded as Hotel Beauden and joining Marriott International’s Autograph Collection, a brand shift that reshapes the positioning and marketing strategy of this downtown Orlando property.
#Orlando #Marriott #Rebranding
✨ Appointment
SilverDoor, a global specialist in serviced apartments for business travel, has appointed Shelley Mathews as Head of Business Development for the EMEA and APAC regions. She will lead the group’s commercial development strategy with corporate clients across these regions.
#SilverDoor #Appointment #EMEA
🏨 Investment
The Vietnamese city of Can Tho has approved the Huu Toan group to lead the Citadines Riverside Can Tho hotel project, an 18-storey, 194-room three-star property. Total investment reaches VND 400 billion, with operations planned over a 50-year term.
#Vietnam #Investment #CanTho
🌍 Trend
Private members’ clubs are springing up in Europe’s luxury hotels: The Cover at Sircle’s properties in Barcelona and Vienna, Six Senses Place in London, and Club Woodward at Auberge Collection’s Geneva address. It’s a way for palace hotels to become genuine living spaces for local residents, beyond their transient guest clientele.
#PrivateClub #Luxury #Europe
🤝 MICE
Abidjan will host the first edition of Le Grand Retour de la Diaspora from 23 to 30 October, including a Business Day on 24 October at the Sofitel Hôtel Ivoire. More than 300 decision-makers, investors and business leaders are expected to attend for panels and B2B networking.
#IvoryCoast #MICE #Abidjan
