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Summer 2022: the government welcomes a “remarkable” tourist season

2022-08-29T12:46:07.935Z


The Minister Delegate for Tourism, Olivia Grégoire, evokes a total of "35 million French people who have gone on vacation".


The summer tourist season has been “remarkable”.

This is the observation made this Monday morning by the Minister Delegate for Tourism, Olivia Grégoire.

This summer "35 million French people went on vacation", i.e. a total of 7 out of 10 adults.

"The very good results of the summer are all the more striking as the conditions have not always been easy", underlined Olivia Grégoire, recalling the heat wave, the fires, the inflation or the lack of manpower. work in the hotel and catering industry.

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Proof of this summer success, spending on credit cards by the French is up 10% compared to 2019 in hotels and restaurants.

SNCF sold 23 million tickets in July and August, 10% more than before the Covid-19 pandemic, the last reference period excluding health restrictions.

Leisure parks, for their part, posted sales up 18% in July.

Hotels increased their average revenue per room (RevPar) by 22.2% compared to 2019 and even by more than 30% for the Île-de-France and Paca regions, driven by American and Gulf customers, lovers of five-star hotels.

25 million foreigners generating 15 billion in revenue

Campsites are not to be outdone with an increase in overnight stays of 5% to 7% compared to 2019, in particular thanks to the return of tourists from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, but also from the British.

According to Atout France, the agency in charge of promoting tourism in France, 25 million foreign visitors came to France in July and August, representing 15 billion euros in revenue.

As for the concern of some tourism players about the repayment of their state-guaranteed loan (PGE) contracted during the pandemic, the Minister recalled that it is always possible to “get closer to credit mediation”.

“Across the tourism sector as a whole, nearly 120,000 companies have subscribed to a PGE for a total amount of just over 12 billion euros,” she said.

“As of June 30, 10% of PGEs were reimbursed in full in the tourism sector,” she added, recalling that companies have until 2026 to pay.

Olivia Grégoire recalled that tourism represents "a locomotive of our economy", "more than 8% of GDP" and "two million direct and indirect jobs".

“We intend to remain the world's leading destination.

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Source: leparis

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