Tourists really enjoyed their holidays in France last summer.

As proof, the attendance rate in hotels and campsites in the territory between June and August 2022 exceeded that of 2019 by 3%, i.e. the year before the health crisis;

according to an INSEE study published on Tuesday.


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In #France, tourist attendance from June to August 2022 in #hotels and #campsites exceeds its pre-crisis level by 3%.

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Dutch, Germans and Belgians

Another lesson from the study is that commercial accommodation is preferred to second homes or holidays with friends or family.

This trend had already returned in the summer of 2021. It was the French who mainly occupied the hotels and campsites.

Nights booked by “residents” are twice as many as those paid for by foreigners.

Among the foreigners who returned to France, the Americans were “helped by a stronger dollar against the euro”.

There were also a lot of Brits, Dutch, Germans and Belgians.

The last three nationalities mentioned represent "the main international clientele of campsites for many years", points out Insee, and were "even more present during the summer of 2022".

Spending by foreign visitors on the rise

Other tourists no longer come to France to spend their holidays there.

This is the case of the Russians, the Chinese and the Japanese.

“These three international clienteles represent 1% of foreign hotel attendance during the summer of 2022, compared to 7% in 2019”, underlines the study.



Spending by foreign visitors increased by 7% compared to 2019. But this is not necessarily good news for professionals, due to inflation.

“The consumer price index in hotels, motels, inns and similar accommodation stands at 13% above the price level for the same period in 2019”, specifies INSEE.

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