Informations Rapides · 11 February 2022 · n° 36

In Q4 2021, hotel attendance was 12.4% below its pre-crisis level Tourism occupancy in hotels, campsites and holiday and other short-stay accommodation in metropolitan France - fourth quarter 2021

In Q4 2021, occupancy in tourist collective accommodation – except for campsites, measured in overnight stays, remained by 8.6% below its Q4 2019 level. Attendance still failed by 12.4% in hotels, when in holiday and other shortstay accommodation (HOSSA) it has exceeded its pre-crisis level (+2.9%).

As during summer 2021, hotel occupancy in quarter four was driven by residents, whose overnight stays came close to their pre-crisis level (−3.0%). Non-resident occupancy remained far below (−32.6%).

Resident customers’ come back mainly benefitted high-end hotels. The number of overnight stays increased by 650,000 in 4-5 star hotels (+9.0%) compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. But non resident attendance sharply declined (by 2,100,000 overnight stays), and remained far below its pre-cris level (−33.8%), causing high-end hotels attendance to remain 11 points below Q4 2019’s level. The drop was lesser in 3 star hotels (−6.9%), yet losing 1,200,000 overnight stays.

Attendance fall was important in 1-2 star hotels, whose number of overnight stays decline by 1,600,000 (−16.0% from its pre-crisis level), and unclassified hotels (loss of 1,500,000 overnight stays, −25.2%). Both cases result from sharp decline in non-resident occupancy and significant decrease in that of residents.

In Île-de-France, hotel attendance didn’t match its pre-crisis level (−21.1%), in resident occupancy and even less in non-resident’s. Attendance’s decline was less significant in hotels from provincal urban areas (−10.5%).

In coastlines areas, the decline compared to the fourth quarter of 2019’s attendance was less stronger than in Île-de-France, the growth in resident overnight stays (+8.9%) partly offseting non-resident fall (−37.1%).

During the fourth quarter of 2021, overnight stays from the United Kingdom were half their pre-crisis’s number, in times of sanitary restrictions ruling abroad travels, and Brexit.

To a lesser extent, overnight stays from Germany also declined (−15.0%), whereas belgium’s attendance matched its 2019’s level (+0.1%).

Business attendance, decreased by −16.8%, was slightly depreciated, representing 49.6% of overnight stays, when it represented 52.5% two years earlier. Yet the decline was strong in Île-de-France (−27.3%).

In tourism residences, 2021 fourth quarter’s attendance slightly exceeded 2019’s. Customer’s return is particularly significant in coastlines areas and ski moutain areas.