“With 84.7 million foreign tourists in 2013, France remains the most visited country in the world” . It is with the good news that the Ministry of Economy has welcomed Monday, August 11 dynanisme the French tourism, which does not seem to know the crisis.
The indicator selected by management general competitiveness of industry and services (DGCIS) is indeed unequivocal: France is far ahead the United States and Spain in terms of tourist arrivals
Proceeds from. traditional annual survey of visitors from abroad (EVE), this figure is consistent with data from international organizations represented below
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These performances are from by Greater Paris, leading tourist destination in the world (47 million visitors) to London (35 million), but also by the Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA).
Read our decryption: What regions of France benefit most from tourism
By maintaining an annual growth of 2% (in terms of realistic forecasts of the World Tourism Organization)? the target of 100 million tourists set by the Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, should be achieved by the year 2022 Progress tourism should be based on the influx of increasingly massive Asian clientele. The Chinese still represent only 2% of tourists, but the figure was up by 23.4% over a year
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President Barack Obama set the same target of 100 million tourists to the United States, but … 2021.
Untapped economic potential?
S it is a figure that the Ministry of Economy is careful not to mention, is that the revenue generated by the influx of foreign tourists. With 20% more visitors, the French tourism generates three times less money than American tourism -. Reflecting the demographic importance of the United States, where domestic tourism mechanically produced more revenue
More worrying to most comparable demographics, France gets just as much money as Spain, which receives far fewer tourists
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In fact, the very good numbers of tourist arrivals on the French territory mask a more complex reality: many of them are just passing in the geographic crossroads that is France, not necessarily remain and consume. The peninsular decreases the magnitude of this phenomenon for Spain.
If the figure of 84.7 million tourists touted by the department does not include “trippers” , ie visitors who do not stay overnight in France, it does not reflect the actual number provided to tourists, as explained in a note INSEE 2008 (PDF). In 2007, nearly one in five tourist was actually doing that through the country en route to another destination:
According to figures cited at the time by INSEE, foreign tourists stayed an average of two weeks in Spain, against just one week in France. This trend has not reversed yet
Read also the interview with Laurent Fabius. “Must be corrected our shortcomings “in the tourism sector
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