Accor hotels to deliver newspapers and magazines digitally in 2015

Accor, in partnership with PressReader is making a new free-of-charge information delivery service available in all Group hotels by the first quarter of 2015. This commitment is part of Accor’s Leading Digital Hospitality plan, which aims at integrating and redesigning digital at every step of the customer journey.


With Accor Press by PressReader, customers of the group’s hotels can read more than 3,000 international and local newspapers and magazines on their smartphone, laptop or tablet, in every digital environment (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows).

Accor Press by PressReader is accessible via hotel’s Wi-Fi for guests to download articles, newspapers and magazines, and then read them whenever and wherever they wish. This digital platform is intuitive, customisable and offers various features such as content sharing on social media, online commenting, content translation into 17 languages, and more.

Accor offers 470,000 rooms in 3,600 hotels across 14 trusted brands in 92 countries. The Accor brands include Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Grand Mercure, and The Sebel in the luxury-upscale segment; midscale names such as Novotel, Suite Novotel, Mercure and Adagio, and in the economy segment, ibis, ibis Styles, ibis budget, adagio access and hotelF1. 

Air France offers free newspaper and magazine content for tablets

Air France has introduced the Air France Press app for tablets to allow Air France Flying Blue members to read digital media for free offline.

According to the airline, Flying Blue members can download the content at no charge and consult them before, during and after their flights. One or more newspapers and magazines from a selection of French and international media is available for download with a ticket for an Air France flight, beginning 24 hours before the flight and up to the departure time. 

The service is available through logging in to the app with a Flying Blue username or reservation number. Those without tickets for an Air France flight can still download the Air France Magazine and Air France Madame publications at no extra charge and at any time. 

The Air France Press app is available in French and English, and can be downloaded for the iPad here, for Windows 8 and Windows RT here, and for Android here.

Myanma Freedom Daily provides on-the-ground snapshot of Myanmar

Myanmar has received much press in the region towards the end of last year through its hosting of the 2013 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. It will receive as much attention, if not more, through its Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) chairmanship in 2014. Google the country, and you’ll find a lot about its potential, but little about what’s happening on the ground.

Winston Nyan Win, Managing Editor, Myanma Freedom Daily, aims to change that. “Myanmar has entered a new era of unprecedented renewal and development and is destined to be the ‘last economic frontier’ in East Asia. There will be opportunities as well as challenges,” he says.

The relatively new Myanma Freedom Daily covers current affairs because they will impact the country, Win says. “That includes the business leaders and academics and their activities and trends which will give insightful perspectives on the country's economy,” he said.

The newspaper features key businessmen in a daily Q&A section, and also in a daily Who's Who section, Win added.

Businesses in Myanmar can get a print subscription direct from the publisher, while everyone can read the paper online, or download a PDF of the day’s stories. “Our subscribers include major hotels in Yangon, foreign embassies, NGOs and expats,” Win shared.