Accor

Accor’s Mövenpick Hotel is now open for business in Wellington’s The Terrace, where guests can experience a chocolate hour, a 24-hour sundae service and free ice cream for kids.

New Zealand’s biggest hotel operator has signed-up one of the country’s biggest female rugby stars to promote the brand.

Accor Hotels will pay at least the living wage of $22.75 per hour to all of its staff.

French giant AccorHotels’ proposed A$1.2bn (NZ$1.3bn) takeover of Australia’s Mantra Group looks set to go ahead creating a 50,000 room behemoth in the Asia Pacific room.

The Commerce Commission could investigate French giant AccorHotel’s proposed A$1.2bn (NZ$1.3bn) takeover of Australia’s Mantra Group if the deal substantially reduces competition in the New Zealand hotel operator market.

Europe’s largest hotel group, Accor, has made a US$930m (NZ$1.3bn) bid for Australia’s Mantra Group, which could see a number of New Zealand assets change hands.