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Foreign tourists visit France to avoid the United States, said the minister

Nathalie Deattre, visiting Corsica, congratulated expected very positive figures for this year.

French tourism “is fine” and benefits from a “maneuver of avoidance of the United States” by Donald Trump for certain tourists, especially Japanese and Canadians, welcomed the Minister of Tourism Nathalie Deattre on Monday on Monday, visiting a corctic for two days.

The minister praised the arrival of “emerging tourists”, especially from Brazil. Ensuring that “American tourists are important for France”, because they represent “5% of tourists, but 10% of income,” he says “reaches 30% of more Canadian tourists and Japanese tourists, because they do not want to visit Trump’s United States.”

Ensuring that “summer reserves promise to be very good”, Mrs. Deattre estimated that France “could expect to exceed even more a record in 2025, when we do not have important events”, after the 100 million visitors in 2024, one Olympic year, a “record figure” in 12% compared to 2023.

The minister praised the “tourist economy, which greatly supports the economy of France” by representing “8% of our national wealth”, “15 billion in our commercial balance” and “two million jobs.”

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Qualifying Corsica as “territory of our tourist sites,” said the Mediterranean island welcomed “more than three million visitors” with “3.4 billion euros in revenue”, which emphasized that this “wealth brought to this territory” weighed “five times more than nationally”, proof of “the importance of tourism” for the island of beauty of beauty.

On the island, she wants to “highlight the oenotourism”, well asked by all our foreign tourists. “The discovery of the wine regions has experienced a” 20% growth in the last eight years with 12 million eneotourists “per year in France.

Among “the challenges to be fulfilled,” said the lack of seasonal workers, the conflicts of use between sustainable homes and seasonal homes and the search for investors in times of “budgetary rigor.”

Author: VG with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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