The French government wants to be reassuring about a possible impact of the riots on tourism in Paris, which is not experiencing a “wave of cancellations”, said the delegate minister for Tourism, Olivia Grégoire, on Tuesday. “You have to stay calm, we don’t have a wave of cancellations in Paris. I have traded with all the platforms in the last few days. We have a swing of -0.5, -2%, but that does not allow us to draw conclusions.” to be drawn,” said the minister, at the beginning of the summer tourist season and a year before the Olympic Games that are being organized in the French capital.
Very violent nocturnal riots, the images of which have gone around the world, broke out in several cities in France, particularly in Paris and its suburbs, on June 27, after the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a shot to point blank range by a police motorcyclist. For two nights, she seems to take the form of a calm.
“Between 20 and 25% cancellations in Paris for international customers”
However, according to the head of the Paris Tourist Office, Jean-François Rial, the situation is more critical. “We already have thousands of cancellations. At the beginning of July, I think we are already around 20-25% cancellations in Paris on international clients and I would not be surprised if these are the same figures for all of France,” he said. he said he on sunday.
Japanese, Chinese, American and South American customers are considered to be particularly sensitive to security issues when traveling.
The influential union of GNC businessmen, the National Group of Hotel Chains, identified “between a 2 and a 5% drop in (the) objectives for the first ten days of July and the objectives were very good,” said its president. , Jean. -Virgil Crance. The damage is “much more moral and sometimes material for the affected establishments than on the activity that should continue to be good in the summer of 2023, except for a change in the internal security situation,” he added.
Source: BFM TV
