26 August 2015

2015- n° 201

In Q2 2015, the number of tourism nights increased again (+2.7% year-on-year) Tourism occupancy in hotels, campsites and holiday and other short-stay accommodation in metropolitan France - 2nd quarter 2015

In the second quarter of 2015, throughout metropolitan France, the number of overnight stays in tourist collective accomodation increased again compared to the same period in 2014 (+2.7%), faster than the previous quarter (1.6%). Attendance rose in all forms of accomodation, but especially in campsites. The upswing recorded earlier this year in hotels and other short-stay accommodation (HOSSA) was confirmed.

The recovery in hotel occupancy was confirmed in the second quarter (+1.9% year-on-year after +2.4%) mostly due to French customers.

In all categories of classified hotels, the increase in overnight stays was mainly due to the ongoing process of accomodation classification which raised up the park, and to a lesser extent to the increase of occupancy with constant classification, especially for four or five-star hotels.

On the other hand, the unclassified hotels park lowered by a quarter, and overnight stays by more than 31%.

The occupancy rate increased by 0.4 points year-on-year with 62.7% of rooms occupied in the second quarter of 2015.

However tourist nights in the agglomeration of Paris fell (–0.2%) due to a decline of foreigners overnight stays (–1.6%), who represented there 59% of the customers.

Stays in HOSSA rose slightly in the second quarter of 2015 (+0.4% year-on-year after a stability in the previous quarter). This increase was mainly due to French customers.

Among HOSSA, nights spent in tourist or hotel residences (+1.8%), rose nearly at the same pace than in traditional hotels. However, nights spent in holiday villages and family homes declined (–3.6%), as well as in the other collective accomodation (youth hostels, etc.). The occupancy rate (54.7%) rose by 0.7 points.

In the second quarter of 2015, according to the first results, the number of overnight stays in campsites increased strongly (+7.2%), mainly driven by foreign customers (+9.1%). The higher the campsite class was, the more the number of nights spent in increased, reaching +8.5% for high-end campsites (fourr or five-star hotels). The overall occupancy rate rose by 1.1 points, to 20.9% in the second quarter. It improved especially for pitches with rental accommodation (+1.6 points).

May contributed significantly to the rise of tourism nights in the second quarter of 2015, with clement weather conditions, especially in southern regions, combined with a more favorable schedule than last year (long weekend for Whitsun). The mountain areas recorded the sharpest increases in hotel and HOSSA. In campsites, overnight stays were particularly high on coastlines.

Revisions

The evolution of the number of overnight stays in the first quarter of 2015 were lowered by 0.4 points (+1.6% instead of +2.0%) due to the integration of more recent data.

It is revised down to 0.0% (–1.3 points) for HOSSA. It is unchanged for hotels.