2023-07-04 10:40:08
Tourists on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP
DECRYPTION – This delay seems insane as the Chinese are once again traveling outside their country and France remains their favorite destination in Europe.
They are all there, except the Chinese. Foreign tourists have made a comeback in France, sometimes with a record number of arrivals (especially for Europeans). Only the Chinese are missing. And the riots of the last few days should not make them want to book tickets to Paris en masse. Already, we no longer see them multiplying the selfies with their new luxury bag in front of the iconic monuments. The parade of buses that brought them to the capital’s department stores has not resumed.
“The Chinese have been returning to La Samaritaine since March, nuance Éléonore de Boysson, president of La Samaritaine and DFS Europe and the Middle East. But leisure tourists are not there yet. We mainly see business travelers, who are not very sensitive to the price of the plane, which costs 30% to 50% more expensive than in 2019. For tourism players, the evaporation of the Chinese is a terrible blow: they are the biggest spenders in the world. In 2019, a record year, visitors…
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