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Travel and Tourism - France - April 2003

FRANCE
INTRODUCTION
Political organisation
Economic growth
Strong domestic tourism
 DATA SOURCES
Economic significance of tourism
ARRIVALS
Top destination around the world
Figure 1: International tourist arrivals, 1990-2002
Slower growth of revenues
International arrivals
Europe
UK and Germany
Benelux
Southern Europe
Central/Eastern Europe
Long-haul
The Americas
Asia
Middle East/Africa
Figure 2: International arrivals from main markets to France, 2000 and 2001
ACCOMMODATION AND OVERNIGHTS
A good quality accommodation
Figure 3: Accommodation capacity in January 2002
Ile de France at the top for hotel capacity
Figure 4: Recorded arrivals and overnights in classified hotels by region, 2001
Hotels result in 2002
Figure 5: Annual results of chain hotels at end December 2002
Overnights and average stay
Figure 6: Top ten foreign markets in terms of overnights from 1999-2001
French domestic travels
Figure 7: Geographical breakdown of stays and overnights for French tourists, 2000-01
Impact of the 35-hour working week
TRANSPORT
High speed train development
Road network
Figure 8: Network density and traffic, 1998
Difficult times for French airports
Figure 9: French airport passenger traffic in 2002 – excluding transit
Low-cost airlines impact on French airports
Figure 10: Market share of low-cost airlines in France, 2002
TOURISM STRATEGIES
Balancing tourism flows
Quality through tourism labels
Health tourism
Figure 11: Number of visitors to the five largest spa and thermal regions in France
Maison de la France role and budget
CONCLUSION

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