
Sylvia Pinel, Minister of Artisanry, Commerce and Tourism, attended the 14th ceremony of the Worldwide Hospitality Awards and presented the 2013 Grand Prize to the B&B hotel group, with Georges Panayotis, President of MKG Group, and Stephen P. Joyce, Choice Hotels President & CEO and Chairman of the ceremony.Established in 1990, B&B Hotels is now a leading budget hotel chain in France, with a network of 210 hotels in the country. With its concept of hotels that are friendly, functional, attractive and accessible to all, the brand has left the French borders and now has 58 hotels in Germany, 14 in Italy, two in Poland, two in Portugal, one in Morocco and one in the Czech Republic.