France earned 57.9 billion euros in 2022 thanks to international tourism, “record” income but still lower than that of the great Spanish rival, according to figures published this Monday by the Atout France agency, in charge of promoting French tourism abroad.
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The flow of travelers “from Asia, particularly from China or Japan, is still very weak.”
And in terms of income from international tourism, France remains ahead of Spain, “which will regain its European leadership in 2022” since Madrid already accumulated 64.8 billion euros at the end of November.
Among the foreign customers who spent the most in France in 2022 are nationals of three border countries: Belgium with 7.3 billion euros, Germany with 6.5 billion and the United Kingdom with 6.2 billion. The United States ranks fifth with $5.6 billion in cumulative spending in 2022.
After a “good” activity during the Christmas holidays and in the mountain areas, despite an initial “little or even no snow cover”, Atout France looks at the first quarter of 2023 with “some optimism”, “despite a still difficult context”. economically (inflation) and geopolitically, with the war in Ukraine.
Source: BFM TV
