The number of visitor arrivals amounted to 84.5 million in 2015. For the first time, France has welcomed more than 2 million Chinese tourists.
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| France the first destination for tourism |
The France has retained its rank of first world tourist destination last year with, in addition, a new record of foreign attendance. The number of international visitor arrivals is so high at 84.5 million, for an increase of 0.9% from 2014, announced on Friday the Minister of Foreign Affairs and international development, Jean-Marc Ayrault, in a statement. The $ 85 million is reached even if account tourists visiting departments and overseas communities, says a note published simultaneously by the Quai d'Orsay (these statistics for the ultra-marins territories are being consolidated). Moreover, the total number of nights recorded for the hexagon has also slightly increased (+ 0.8%), where an expected tourism receipts increase.
Impact of the attacks in Paris
Beyond these aggregates, the balance sheet in foreign tourism 2015 is not less contrasty, due to the impact of the terrorist attacks. Already found with the hotel data, the impact of the events of November 13 is confirmed so in view of the decline of 3.1 percent in the last quarter, so that attendance grew by 1.8% for the first three, indicates the Ministerial note. However, the beginning of the year was also well morose, following the attacks in January, according to the statistics of hospitality. In addition, and not surprisingly also, statistics published by the Quai d'Orsay, which are drawn from an annual branch survey companies - in partnership with the Bank of France-, stress, in turn, the collapse of tourism in Paris after 13 November: foreign attendance there has fallen by 15% in November-December.
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European perspective
If you go through the different nationalities of its visitors, the France profited particularly Asian flows increase (+ 22.7%), reflecting especially, believe the Quai d'Orsay, of "efficiency" measure of deliverance in 48 hours for visas for the Chinese, the Indians, and Singaporeans. Regard to Chinese tourists, 2015 is the year of a new record since their number exceeds, for the first time, the 2 million to 2.2 million. In parallel, the destination France has been popular with Americans (+ 15.2%) who have, admittedly, took advantage of a favorable exchange rate. Conversely, the attendance of Europeans retreated (-1.5%), due to reflux of the German tourists (-9,2%) and Swiss (-6.5%), British (+ 3.3%), Spanish (+ 4.9%) and Italian (6.5%) were more likely.
Finally, Jean-Marc Ayrault confirmed the goal, set by his predecessor to host 100 million foreign tourists per year in France from 2020
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