Masked holidaymakers, on the Croisette, August 17, 2020 -

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  • Professionals have between 50% and 60% occupancy in accommodation offers in July, less than 80% for August.

  • “Over the year, we are at 80% loss of turnover and it's a disaster,” sighs the president of the Cannes hoteliers union.

“We thought we could have a decent month of August until the end.

But the placement of the Alpes-Maritimes in the red zone the last week scared holidaymakers away, ”Denis Cippolini blows.

And for the boss of the Nice hoteliers union, the start of the Tour de France was not the expected party either.

In the end, “we said loud and clear that we shouldn't come.

So, people did not come ", sighs the person in charge who hopes all the same that" the images shown on TV will make tourists want to come next year ".

A peak in mid-summer

If there was a peak in mid-summer, with crowded shops and beaches, especially filled with French people, the "high season" has been clearly reduced this year on the Côte d'Azur.

Professionals have between 50% and 60% occupancy in the accommodation offers in July, less than 80% for August… In sharp decline.

Marked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the closure of certain borders, local summer tourism, a traditional economic powerhouse, will therefore not have made it possible to "limit damage", confirms Christine Welter, president of the Cannes hoteliers union.

" It is a disaster "

“We have seen visitors that we were not used to meeting here,” she explains in a city of festivals, which has been deprived of it this year.

Lithuanians, Estonians and even Romanians took their cars.

But, attendance remained lower [between 10, in August, and 20 points less, in July].

And with the prices discounted to be able to attract more people, all this weighs on the turnover.

It is 40% lower than last summer.

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“Over the year, we are at 80% loss of turnover and it's a disaster,” she sighs.

The first effects are announced.

At Martinez, an employment safeguard plan already provides for 29 departures.

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