Accor to Open Ibis Styles Hotel at Debrecen Airport, Hungary

Accor will open an ibis Styles hotel at Debrecen Airport. The new hotel will welcome first guests in 2025.

Thanks to agreement signed with Xanga Investment and Development Group, one of the largest investment and development groups in Eastern Hungary, Accor will open an ibis Styles hotel in the second largest city in Hungary. The future ibis Styles will be the first hotel in the vicinity of Debrecen International Airport, the second busiest airport of the country.

"Debrecen is a significant leisure and cultural destination in Hungary, as well as key business and economic centre of the Eastern Region, with huge potential for economic development", says Dilek Sezer, Development Director, South Eastern Europe Accor. "It is a unique opportunity for us to brand the first hotel at Debrecen International Airport, as well as – following recent opening of Mercure Debrecen – to consolidate our presence in Debrecen and further expand our regional network."

"XANGA has been active in developing turnkey industrial and logistic facilities for lease for more than two decades, this way enabling a great number of foreign companies to set up their business activities in the city of Debrecen. Being the former operator of Debrecen International Airport, our group has always been committed to the development of the infrastructure of the surrounding area. In addition to the over 30,000 sqm of cargo, logistic and office spaces we have developed there during the past decade, now we are proud to expand the business environment of the airport with a new hotel, for which there is an increasing need by the vivid economic life of the city", says István Herdon, CEO of XANGA Investment & Development Group.

The newly built property will offer 73 modern and comfortable rooms and 20 apartments located over 4 floors. Guests could also benefit from restaurant, bar and café, while business travellers can also enjoy meeting facilities. The hotel is set to open in the second half of 2025.

Debrecen is a well-known educational and cultural hub, and the most important economic centre of the Eastern region. There are many international companies operating in the city. In the recent years Debrecen hosted several large-scale regional, national and international cultural, sport and business events. To prove that Debrecen is the driver of economic development in the region, since 2015 18 500+ new workplaces were created in the volume of 12 000+ million EUR including BMW Group's new iFactory. Above that, in 2021 Financial Times ranked Debrecen among the TOP 10 city in the world in the category of FDI Strategy, Overall.

Debrecen International Airport is the second most important international airport in Hungary, the passenger traffic at the airport is increasing dynamically. The record level was in 2019, the last year before Covid-19 pandemic, with 600,000 passengers using the airport. The number of passengers registered in 2022 exceeded 250,000, the expected number is 300,000 for 2023. Industry estimates predict that passenger traffic could recover to the 2019 level by around 2025, and 1,5-2 million until 2030.