For tourism professionals, what happens is worse than a bad science fiction film script. In the summer, for them, it's 30% of the year's recipes. Year after year, thanks to the French and foreign tourists, the boxes are full at the end of the season. This year is dumbfounding. Some already imagine having to put the key under the door. Others, more and more numerous, ask themselves the question of reopening, even if they will have the right: they doubt to be able to count on a sufficient clientele. In the absence of foreign tourists, the summer season is lost in advance.
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Until then, professionals clung to what could be good news: more French people will stay in France. Traditionally, they generate two thirds of tourism revenue. The weeks go by, the situation worsens. “Since the start of confinement, we estimate that more than 6 million French people have given up taking holidays, even in France.
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