Informations Rapides · 21 May 2025 · n° 123

In Q1 2025, collective tourist attendance decreased by 1.5% over a year Tourism occupancy in hotels, campsites and holiday and other short-stay accommodation in metropolitan France - first quarter 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, in France, occupancy in collective accommodations except campsites, measured in overnight stays, decreased by 1.5% compared to its Q1 2024 level; this fall back over a year was due to a weaker month of March. The decrease was more significant in hotels (‑2.0%) than in holiday and other short-stay accommodations (HOSSA, ‑0.5%).

In the first quarter of 2025, hotel occupancy was 42.2 million overnight stays. It decreased by 2.0% compared to its Q1 2024 level. Resident customers’ attendance decreased by 3.8% (that is a little bit more than one million fewer overnight stays), while that of non-residents increased by 1.6% over a year (that is a little bit more than 222,000 more overnight stays).

Only the occupancy in high-range hotels rose (+4.6%) thanks to the increase in both resident and non-resident customers. Attendance decreased in all other categories, the lower the category, the sharper the drop (-18.4% in unclassified hotels, ‑5.6% in 1- to 2- star hotels and ‑1.5% in 3- star hotels).

Attendance in hotels decreased in all touristic areas (‑2.7% in mountain areas, ‑1.3% on coastlines and ‑2.0% in other areas). Attendance in hotels also declined regardless of the area density, but the decrease was lower in urban areas (‑0.6% in urban areas, ‑4.2% in intermediate urban areas and ‑3.5% in rural areas).

Business attendance decreased quiet significantly in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024 (‑6.5%, that is one million fewer overnight stays in hotels). This decline impacted all density areas, but was less pronounced in urban density area.

Non-resident customers’ overnight stays in hotels increased in Q1 2025 compared to the Q1 2024 level (+1.6%). But this rise was only due to non-European occupancy. British attendance decreased by 17.9%, Belgium one decreased by 3.6% and German one decreased by 2.6%.

Outside Europe, United States customers’ attendance increased once again sharply (+39.2%) and Asia-Oceania one stayed dynamic (+14.5%).

In Q1 2025, attendance in holiday and other short-stay accommodations (HOSSA) of metropolitan France was 23.0 million overnight stays. It decreased by 0.5%, compared to its Q1 2024 level. This decline is due to the fall in non-resident customers (‑1.7%). It increased slightly in tourism residences (+0.2%), but it decreased in other short-stay accommodations (‑2.6%).

Attendance decreased by 2.7% in mountain areas and by 8.4% on coastlines. On the contrary, it increased by 5.7% in other areas. It increased quiet significantly in densely urban areas (+6.0%) but decreased in intermediate urban areas (‑3.0%) and in rural areas (‑2.9%).

Final data confirm the year-on-year increase by 3.2% in attendance at collective tourist accommodations in the fourth quarter of 2024, as published on 20 February based on provisional data.