announced! - Business Traveller

WHAT WH WHAT AT ABOUT ABO BOUT UT BUSINESSPEOPLE?
BUS USINESSPEOPLE?
The Parisian airport provides business
travellers with all sorts of facilities
and spots intended especially for them.
There is Atlanteam internet cafe – a�huge
room, where you can sit at a�desk and use
the Internet. Two of these cafes are to
be found in Terminalu�2, and one – in
Terminalu�1.
Besides, businesspeople can also use
conference rooms, offices, VIP lounges,
telephones, faxes and Xeroxes. All of
these you can fi nd in the main Business
Centre in Terminalu�1, where there are
eight conference rooms, each with capacity
of up to�15 people. A�slightly smaller
Business Centre is located in T2 – there
are two small conference rooms.
Inside the Terminal�2, there is a�Sheraton
hotel. It has�250 rooms and a�conference
centre, which consists of�22 conference
rooms. The biggest one can
accommodate�100 people, the remaining
ones are smaller, with the capacity of only
several people. Most of the rooms are located
on the same level, and they can be
adapted according to guests» needs. Most
of them also have access to natural light.
The hotel also provides its guests with
necessary equipment and high level of
service by highly trained staff.
In the vicinity of the airport there are
other hotels, like Kyriad Prestige, Ibis,
Sofi tel and Hilton. Guests are transferred
in buses. There are also car rental offi ces
The plans for
the expansion
of the airport
in Paris are
impressive.
offering all the most important brands, including
Hertza, Avis or Europcar. The airport
has also a�limousine service. You can
rent a�car with a�driver –�the cost of a�drive
to Paris is�105 euro. It costs €38 to cover
the same distance in a�taxi.
TOWARDS THE FUTURE
The Parisian CDG airport has one huge
advantage, which is, of course, Paris. The
city has attracted, and always will, people
from all over the world, both business
travellers as well as regular tourists.
Therefore it is hardly a�surprise that Aéroports
de Paris – the company managing
the airport (it also owns Orly and Le Bourget
airports and a�helipad)- needs to consider
investing.
Between�2007 –�2011 the company
wanted to invest�2.5 billion euro to improve
the airport infrastructure. Not
without a�reason —�the number of passengers
using the airports is believed to
increase by�20 million by the end of�2011,
when compared to how often it is used to-
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day –�83 million on all three airports. The
main projects include building a�satellite
S3 terminal on the Charles de Gaulle airport
(it has already been opened, and handles�8
million passengers a�year), a�new
automatic baggage handling system, creating
CGDVAL shuttle rail to go between
the terminals (already in use) and renovating
Terminal�1.
Some money will also go to expanding
the commercial service section, so that the
passengers have a�bigger choice of goods
and services. The number of shops, bars
and restaurant is supposed to be increased
by�30% in the nearby future. Apart from
that, there will be over�5 thousand new
parking places. Lots of money is also invested
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especially in a section that
allows passengers to arrange many things
online - booking a fl ight, check-in or renting
a car. Thanks to all these investments
Paris will surely become an even better
place to visit. ■
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