paris hotel market
Paris Market Pulse 2024 – Going for Gold
Maxime Gauthier | May 20, 2024
By Maxime Gauthier, Alexandra Dumoulin The City of Light enjoys a well-balanced blend of business and leisure demand resulting in both a broad seasonality and strong average rates. Since 2015, Paris has faced multiple challenges which highly disrupted hotel performances. As the city was recovering from the 2015-16 terrorist attacks, the ‘yellow vests’ movement and pension reform strikes of 2018-19, as well as the transportation strike of 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world. The market has since shown remarkable resilience and has gradually recovered, reaching record levels of RevPAR in 2023. Despite and throughout this tumultuou...
Travel & Tourism Sector in Key European Capitals Strongly Recovering Says WTTC
WTTC | February 15, 2023
London, UK: A new report from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has revealed strong signs of recovery of the economic impact from Travel & Tourism in the five city ‘powerhouses’ of Western Europe. The Cities Economic Impact Report, sponsored by Visa and researched in partnership with Oxford Economics, analysed key indicators such as Travel & Tourism’s contribution to GDP, employment and traveller spend. The study examined the impact of the sector in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, and Madrid. The report from the global tourism body shows that in 2019, the Travel & Tourism sector contributed over $83.5BN to th...
Paris Hotel Market: A Spectacular Start to the Recovery
Mathilde De Bona | June 8, 2022
By Mathilde De Bona, Sophie Perret Tourism in Paris was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, at a time when the market was recovering from terrorist attacks (2015/16), the yellow-vest movement (2018/19) and transportation strikes (2019). However, the strong government support combined with the city’s worldwide appeal have resulted in a dynamic rebound for the tourism sector. The easing of travel restrictions and successful vaccination rollout in France and across Europe have allowed a rise in tourist numbers from June 2021, resulting in a substantial market bounce in the second half of the year, in line with...
Paris Hotel Market – A Rocky Start to the Year
Dayk Balyozyan | September 3, 2019
By Dayk Balyozyan & Sophie Perret Since our previous article in April 2018, the business environment in France has experienced positive change with a decrease in unemployment rate and an increase in purchasing power, following the ‘gilets jaunes’ disruption. The Economist Intelligence Unit forecasts modest GDP growth to pick up to around 1.5% for the foreseeable future. In terms of tourism, Paris enjoys an exceptionally well-balanced mix of business and leisure demand, which allows the City of Lights to have both a broad seasonality and strong average rate. Paris has remained, alongside London, one of the two most desirable destina...
