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Record year in sight in ski resorts

2022-02-04T19:31:25.587Z


After a lackluster season last year, mountain professionals have regained their optimism. Two years after the sudden stop of the ski lifts at the announcement of confinement, the intoxication of the summits is back in French ski resorts. “We cherish the hope of having a 2021-2022 season as good as that of 2019-2020, even record”, confides Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Minister in charge of Tourism. What to do much better than go up the slope, after a catastrophic 2020-2021 season, the governm


Two years after the sudden stop of the ski lifts at the announcement of confinement, the intoxication of the summits is back in French ski resorts.

“We cherish the hope of having a 2021-2022 season as good as that of 2019-2020, even record”,

confides Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Minister in charge of Tourism.

What to do much better than go up the slope, after a catastrophic 2020-2021 season, the government having refused to restart the chairlifts, ski lifts and other cable cars.

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As the February school holidays begin this Saturday, a period when mountain professionals achieve half of their turnover for the season, the horizon is clear.

The peak of the Omicron wave has passed, health constraints are loosening and the level of reservations is very good.

Activity is expected to be higher than before the crisis.

Filling rate exceeding 80%

The trend for March and April suggests that the 2018-2019 record could be exceeded.

"It's gone very well,

assures...

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