Informations Rapides · 11 August 2023 · n° 207

In Q2 2023, collective tourist attendance rose by 3.4% year on year Tourism occupancy in hotels, campsites and holiday and other short-stay accommodation in metropolitan France - second quarter 2023

In France, in the second quarter of 2023, occupancy in collective accommodation except for campsites, measured in overnight stays, was 3.4% higher than its Q2 2022 level. Attendance exceeded only in hotels (+4.8%) whereas in Holiday and Other Short-Stay Accommodations (HOSSA) attendance slightly decreased (-0.3%).

In the second quarter of 2023, hotel occupancy was 60 million overnight stays. It rose by 4.8% (that is +2.8 million overnight stays) compared to that of Q2 2022. Non-resident customers' occupancy mostly contributed to the rise in hotels occupancy (+13.9%, more than 2.6 million additional overnight stays) while resident customers' occupancy increased only by 0.3% (127,000 additional overnight stays).

Upscale hotels mostly benefited from the improvement in hotel occupancy. Compared to the second quarter of 2022, the number of overnight stays increased by 9.6%. 1-to-3-stars hotels attendance increased to a lesser extent. Only unclassified hotels attendance remained below its Q2 2022 level (-9.8%), suffering from the disaffection of resident customers.

Compared to Q2 2022, hotel occupancy increased in all touristic areas, especially in urban areas, in both Île-de-France and provincial urban area. More specifically, non-resident customers increased significantly in provincial urban area as it rose by 21.4%. Hotel resident occupancy decreased in coastline (-2.2%) and ski mountain hotels (-2.9%).

Business attendance decreased in Q2 2023 (-7.2%, representing a fall of 1.9 million overnight stays) compared to the same period of the last year. This decrease has been noticed since the sanitary crisis. Île-de-France was especially impacted and lost 1.1 million overnight stays (-13.5% compared to Q2 2022).

On the rise every quarter for more than one year, non-resident customers' occupancy in hotels in France exceeded in Q2 2023 its Q2 2022 level (+13.9%).

Attendance from European countries strongly contributed to this rise. Especially, the British customers attendance increased by 34.9% and the German customers attendance increased by 8.1%. On the contrary, customers from Belgium were less numerous by 5.4% and from the Netherlands by 4.6% compared to Q2 2022.

Attendance by non-European customers also increased after a long disaffection period. Customers from United-States increased by 6.9% and customers from other countries, especially from Asia, by 47.0% compared to Q2 2022.

In holiday and other short-stay accommodations (HOSSA) of metropolitan France, the attendance was slightly lower than in Q2 2022 (-0.3% over a year). This reduction is mainly due to the decrease of the attendance in tourist residences (-1.6%).

Occupancy decreased in ski mountain area (-11.9%) and on coastline (-2.6%) whereas it increased in urban areas (+10.3% in Île-de-France and +1.2% in provincial urban area) and in other metropolitan areas (+1.5%).