2024-09-28 05:15:00
Frédéric Michel / Photo credits: HENRI TABARANT / ONLY FRANCE / Only France via AFP
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08:04, September 28, 2024
Would Corsica have attracted less this summer? This is the shared assessment made by the island this month of September. The cause is a drop in attendance since 2019, and especially tourists who are more careful with their spending.
The Isle of Beauty recorded a mixed tourist season, with fewer people in July and more people in August. The 3.1 million passengers who passed through Corsican ports and airports remain fewer than in 2019, before the health crisis linked to Covid. Satisfaction all the same for hotels which showed a good occupancy rate, unlike outdoor accommodation such as campsites, for which the figures are more mixed.
“It’s hard, we’re rowing”
Key rings and magnets, two souvenirs at low prices… These are the best-selling items this summer in Pascal’s shop on Ile Rousse. “There were people there. That’s not the problem, but purchasing power has fallen, so our revenues are down slightly.” On the main square, the owner of a burger and salad restaurant had difficulty filling her establishment. “We had a few tables, but hey, it’s hard, we’re rowing. We don’t know if it’s due to the prices of boats or planes. They have to question themselves.”
Angèle Bastiani, president of the Corsican Tourism Agency, is more optimistic: “The attendance figures remain good attendance figures since, to date, 130,000 additional passengers” have been recorded. “The season is not over. We are on a tourism policy which is that of the annualization of tourism. We have a real reflection on tourist transport since we voted for the purchase of flows, corridors open to origins European” to bring in new customers with better purchasing power.
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