{"id":31151,"date":"2014-12-13T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxury-hotel-expert.com\/?p=31151"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:18:58","slug":"new-palaces-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delporte-hospitality.com\/en\/new-palaces-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Palaces in France in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What It Means to Have Three New Palaces in France:<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Palace Label has profoundly transformed the landscape of luxury hotels. Originally conceived in 2010, it was awarded for the first time in 2011 to 8 French establishments, including classic hotels from Paris (Le Meurice and the Plaza Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e) as well as those in other regions of France (Hotel du Palais and Les Airelles). We are talking about some of the most historic institutions in the hotel world. In earlier years, the \u2018Palace\u2019 title was reserved to designate a select few hotels without any particularly distinctive criteria. The renown of the hotel, its age, its tradition, and its clientele were what endowed it the quality of being a Palace. At the time, therefore, a new hotel could not aspire to be considered a Palace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe new award jury for the Palace label has just awarded three new Palace distinctions to three hotels, following a selection process that analyzed at least ten candidates. The OETKER COLLECTION Group received its second Palace distinction with the hotel Cap-Eden-Roc. LVMH also earned its second Palace label with the Cheval Blanc Saint-Barth Isle de France \u2013 Saint-Barth\u00e9lemy. The Peninsula Paris, which first opened in 2014, can now show off its Palace label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe battle for the Palace label that has frequently surfaced in the media is certainly exaggerated, but it remains largely true. The establishments that win the Palace label are selected because they fulfill a number of strictly defined criteria. There is therefore, at the very minimum, a certain norm that all the establishments uniformly respect. And at the same time, these hotels can\u2019t all resemble one another. Each establishment must find an element of differentiation and offer a unique experience to its clients. After all, what pleasure would clients find in uniformity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday an establishment that is over a year old can have a shot at the label which was once reserved only to hotels whose reputations were rooted in history. The label has thus favored the entrance of new arrivals in the sector, and the market has greatly expanded. In my own rubric of analysis, there are two categories of Palace in France, the older and the newer hotels<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n