After an Easter weekend spent during a reconfinement a year ago, Paris is back to its 2019 attendance level this year. Very good news for Umih Île-de-France.
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Many tourists have chosen Paris as their destination for this Easter weekend. “There is really a peak in intramural Paris, there are many, many tourists in the capital”rejoices Frank Delvau, president of the Union of trades and industries of the hotel industry (Umih) Paris Îthe-of-France.
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Guest of franceinfo this Saturday, he specifies that tourists are “four to five times” more numerous compared to the same period last year. On April 6, 2021, after Easter Monday, a reconfinement came into force in France.
According to Frank Delvau, tourist numbers in Paris “returns to its 2019 level for this Easter weekend”, before the Covid-19 crisis. He also points out that “Ile-de-France is the region that lost the most tourists in 2020 and 2021”.
“It’s really nice to see queues in front of certain Parisian museums and monuments, to see people, with this magnificent sun at the Trocadéro, the Tuileries, the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre.”
Frank Delvauat franceinfo
The tourists present in the capital this weekend are mostly from European countries, according to the president of Umih Paris Îthe-of-France: “we hear English, German, Italian, Spanish”. On the other hand, there are fewer tourists from outside Europe. “The Chinese are stuck with the Covid at home, they will not come back immediately. The war in Ukraine is slowing down the Americans a little”, explains Frank Delvau. However, he believes that the war in Ukraine has limited consequences for hoteliers. “Obviously, we have no Russian tourists. But the Russians 400,000 tourists in France. It’s not the most important battalion, if I dare say”.