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Regional: Ile-de-France facing the great challenge of economic recovery

2021-05-30T07:40:48.786Z


The country's economic lung, Ile-de-France has suffered the full brunt of the health crisis. Relaunching activity is therefore an important stake in


Tourism at a standstill, museums, theaters and non-essential businesses closed for months, restaurateurs at the end of their rope.

The Ile-de-France region has not only been one of the most affected by Covid-19 in terms of health, it has also been economically.

Over the past twelve months, the territory has registered 100,000 additional job seekers, ie a third of those registered at the national level.

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While the region lost 15.5 billion in tourism revenue in 2020, 30% of hotels and restaurants are now threatened by bankruptcy.

According to the regional tourism committee (CRT), only 17.5 million tourists came to Ile-de-France last year, against 51 million in 2019. And they should not be back quickly, despite the vaccination which progress and the implementation of the health pass in the coming weeks.

Two years before returning to normal activity?

"It will take two years to return to an acceptable level because today welcoming Asian and American tourists again is just unthinkable," said Qin Wu, at the head of fifteen independent hotels in Paris and Ile-de-France. Establishments whose room occupancy rate has fallen below 30%, or 80% loss of turnover. “We worked with tour operators, whom we can no longer even reach to pay certain bills,” he adds. We are doing it thanks to the aid and we have not fired anyone. "

Loans guaranteed by the State (PGE), rebound loans, resilience funds, stimulus aid… For the owners of small and medium-sized enterprises, the aid is multiple but complex.

"I have just spent months filling in files, calculating, relaunching, looking for solutions", breathes Stéphanie Causse, at the head of two beauty salons in the 15th arrondissement of Paris which have a turnover down 35% in 2020.

"Of course the salaries of my 15 employees were taken care of during the long months of closure, but I had nothing and it is total anguish", continues the business manager who saw herself. refused an EMP and finally obtained 10,000 euros from the Ile-de-France Resilience fund.

A third of French GDP comes from Ile-de-France

This system was matched by various players to the tune of 150 million euros. Valérie Pécresse (Libres!), Outgoing president and candidate for her succession, has already announced that she wants to give up the regional share, ie 37.5 million euros. “The support was real and essential, recognizes Stéphanie Causse. But this recovery is very strange, Paris is devastated and we are told a catastrophic comeback in terms of bankruptcy filings. "

The bosses of TPE and PME do not want to give up, however.

Like François Bourard, director of Abc Photo, a company specializing in decoration and signage located in Cormeilles-en-Parisis (Val-d'Oise) and which counts among its customers several Parisian department stores that have had to close their doors in recent months.

“After the first confinement, the activity had resumed well, continues the boss of this company of 15 employees.

It's much more complicated today because everyone is playing it safe.

But we pretend tomorrow will be sunny.

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If the capital region represents only 2% of the national territory, it concentrates 18% of the population and nearly a quarter of jobs, with 1.2 million companies.

The locomotive of the French economy, which normally releases a third of the country's GDP, will therefore have to get back on track quickly.

A challenge that the candidates for the regional elections understood well, economic development and tourism being the responsibility of the region, with an annual budget of 200 million euros to which must be added 460 million for vocational training and employment and 109 million for culture.

Source: leparis

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