2023-07-05 10:35:20
Posted Jul 5, 2023, 10:34 a.m.Updated Jul 5, 2023, 10:35 a.m.
The Minister of the Economy wants to reassure and seduce foreigners while the conflagration of the suburbs worries internationally. Thus, Bruno Le Maire has multiplied the interviews.
The safety of British holidaymakers is “guaranteed”, he told English tourists in an interview with the “Telegraph” on Wednesday. “Our British friends can be happy to come and visit France and should not be afraid, France is a safe country and a rule of law,” said the Minister of the Economy, speaking in English to an international audience which has its eyes set on France and its images of violent nocturnal riots. He added that he looked forward to welcoming King Charles “in the coming months”, without giving further details. In March, the British sovereign had given up coming on a state visit to France because of the unrest created by the pension reform.
Tuesday on CNN, Bruno Le Maire had already tried to reassure international investors. He hammered home that the riots will have “no impact on French growth, on French attractiveness or on French tourism”. “The French economy is solid, the daily life of French citizens is not threatened by what happened,” he said.
To reassure
Earlier in the day, the French government had already wanted to be reassuring about a possible impact of the riots on tourism in Paris, at the start of the summer tourist season and one year from the Olympic Games. “You have to keep your cool, we don’t have a wave of cancellations in Paris,” said the Minister Delegate for Tourism, Olivia Grégoire. “I therefore believe that it is not necessary to add problems to the problems”, because “we are holding on to tourism”, she had insisted.
The platforms that her teams had questioned reported a “waggling at -0.5, -2%, but that in no way allows conclusions to be drawn”, assured the minister, during a trip to Essonne alongside Bruno Le Maire.
Cancellations of reservations in Paris
However, according to the boss of the Paris Tourist Office, Jean-François Rial, the situation is more critical. “We already have thousands of cancellations. At the beginning of July, I think that we are already around 20-25% of cancellations in Paris on international customers and I would not be surprised if these are the same figures for the whole of France, ”he had said Sunday.
“We had a 25% growth in American customers in Paris since the start of the year, which compensated for the absence of Chinese and Russians, and we were particularly hitting the high end,” he said. precise. Japanese, Chinese, American and South American customers are particularly considered to be particularly sensitive to security issues when they travel.
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