Revenue of 15.5 billion euros last year deprived of Paris and the area of the health crisis, due to “historic decline in the presence” of foreign tourists, according to data released today.
The French capital, hitherto in record tourist size, received about 33.1 million fewer tourists in 2020 than in the previous year. It was hit last year, like all destinations, from an unprecedented “collapse” of demand and from the “general introduction of travel restrictions”, according to the report of the Regional Tourism Committee (CRT), cited by AMPE.
Only about 17.5 million tourists, of which 12.6 million French visited Paris and its suburb of Ile-de-France last year, which shows “an unprecedented decline in tourism”. It brought in 6.4 billion euros in tourism revenue.
Unsurprisingly, “the sharpest decline is in international clientele, with -78% in stays” versus “-56% for French clients”, ie 15.7 million fewer French tourists compared to 2019.
“After a promising start to the year despite the start of the health crisis in Asia and the continuation of social mobilizations in France, tourism activity stopped in mid-March”, with the start of the first lockdown, according to CRT. Then “some recovery was found” at the end of these restrictions, “from 11 May” until the second lockdown in late October.
“Tourism in Paris Ile-de-France was therefore able to take advantage of a break, mainly between July and October” with an activity mainly by French and some customers from nearby countries such as Germany, Britain, the Netherlands , Belgium and Italy, the CRT points out.
The hotels were “particularly affected by the absence of businessmen and international customers” and a number of them closed from mid-March to the end of May and then from the end of October. This led to 68% drop in stay days in hotels in 2020, compared to -55% for seasonal accommodation, compared to 2019.
The capital’s hotels were particularly hard hit by the lack of international customers, “70% of their turnover came from it” mainly in high-end facilities, CRT emphasizes, while the presence in museums and monuments suffered a strong blow from “140 days of emergency closure”.
The Louvre museum and their area Versailles also saw the presence of visitors decrease by 72% and 76% respectively.
At the same time, business tourism in Paris and its environs, which “can represent up to half a day stay in hotels” per year, has been hit hard by the successive cancellations of trade fairs and business events, but remains a “strong lever” for the recovery.
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