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Summer holidays: reservations are ramping up

2020-06-04T15:43:55.086Z


However, the delay accumulated during confinement cannot be made up.Sea, mountain or countryside, in France for the most part: the French are finally embarking on reservations for their summer holidays, released by government announcements, even if the delay accumulated during confinement cannot be made up. Read also: Summer holidays 2020: the Figaro Voyage guide to stay in France From May 14, the green light given by Prime Minister Édouard Philippe to holidays ...


Sea, mountain or countryside, in France for the most part: the French are finally embarking on reservations for their summer holidays, released by government announcements, even if the delay accumulated during confinement cannot be made up.

Read also: Summer holidays 2020: the Figaro Voyage guide to stay in France

From May 14, the green light given by Prime Minister Édouard Philippe to holidays in France in July and August had generated a first flood of reservations. His declarations of May 28 - unlocking the 100 km, reopening of restaurants, campsites and tourist residences on June 2 in the green zone - literally unlocked orders for stays.

" The announcement of May 28 has boosted sales on the web with an increase in flows over the last four days by 150% for Pierre & Vacances, and 180% for the Center Parcs domains ," AFP told AFP. Pierre et Vacances group.

The number one in Europe for leisure residences says it observes " an increase in average baskets supported by a significant lengthening of stays, and a move upmarket ", but " at this stage, and despite these good trends, is still finding a delay in the level of cumulative reservations ”.

" Whatever we do, we will not catch up with the delay linked to the total cessation of reservations during the two months of confinement, and foreign customers will always be lacking ," added Patrick Labrune, president of the National Syndicate of Tourist Residences. But he welcomes the Prime Minister's announcements last Thursday, "which detonated order intake by 200 to 300 percent compared to last year's Pentecost weekend.

The Leboncoin platform - which offers 220,000 advertisements for holiday rentals - recorded 32% more visits on Whit Monday. For its part, Club Med reports for its website a conversion rate whose “ levels are close to those of last year. France is particularly well positioned with double-digit increases versus the same period last year. But we remain vigilant ”.

Overseas pending

The trend is the same in the 8,000 French campsites, 75% of which will reopen this week: “ since Thursday, we have tripled the number of reservations daily. We are catching up, but we can imagine having a normal level for French customers ", judge Nicolas Dayot, president of the Federation of outdoor accommodation.

For him, " if all goes well and if the borders reopen quickly, European customers will also return ". Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal have already indicated that they would welcome European summer visitors without imposing a quarantine.

Bookings for foreigners made online with travel agencies " last week represented only 20% of what we had at the same period last year ", summarizes Jean-Pierre Mas, president of Entreprises du Voyage .

Opodo has for its part recorded a trend reversal since the announcements of May 28: Corsica, which was hitherto at the top of the bookings with Ajaccio, Figari and Bastia, was dethroned by Portugal, with the cities of Lisbon and Porto , tells AFP the online travel site.

Concerning the Overseas, the season is suspended with the lifting of the quarantine which remains in force until further notice. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne said Tuesday that the government "was working on a testing device ." It's catastrophic. While Europe will open up, the French overseas departments will remain closed, ”deplores Jean-Pierre Mas.

" The situation is surreal, it is an economic nonsense ", also estimates Gilbert Cisneros, president of the tour operator Exotismes, specialist of the islands, which denounces a context " purely electoral ". " Local politicians want to maintain their quarantine to capture the voices of extremists who think foreigners are going to the municipal level" will bring the coronavirus to their islands, he said.

Source: lefigaro

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