Maud Descamps, edited by Solène Leroux 6:30 a.m., February 19, 2022
After a blank year in 2021 with the closure of the ski lifts, a record year is looming in many resorts in the Alps and Pyrenees.
Some municipalities are showing an occupancy rate of 100% from this weekend and all of next week.
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After a blank year in 2021 with the closure of the ski lifts, a record year is looming in many resorts in the Alps, but not only.
Indeed, some Pyrenean resorts are posting unprecedented occupancy rates, this is the case, for example, at La Pierre-Saint-Martin or Saint-Lary, which are posting an occupancy rate of 100% from this weekend. end and all next week.
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20% additional booking
Many alpine professionals have noticed this.
"We find a strong level of reservations. We realize that we have a good 20% more to date compared to winter 2019/2020 in terms of reservations", details Éric Brèche, president of the National Union of Instructors. French skiing even if, he says, sanitary measures are still omnipresent.
"People have organized themselves to come to the mountains," he says.
Big desires for the mountains, this is also what Nicolas Beaurain, managing director at Maeva observes, which recorded growth of 39% in the month of February 2022 compared to 2020. "Despite the slight delay with international customers in January , we are on winter trends that are really excellent", he says.
And during these holidays, the French want to take the time with long stays, on average seven days.
Enough to take full advantage of the ski slopes.