2023-08-22 12:33:45
Hugues de Tournemire // Photo credit: BRUNO DE HOGUES / ONLY FRANCE / ONLY FRANCE VIA AFP
French people motivated to go on vacation, but without breaking the bank: this is the observation made by the first economic indicators for the summer. Car rentals at half mast, average basket down… The first figures communicated are worrying tourism professionals.
Crowded beaches, saturated stations and highways… No doubt: the summer holidays were accompanied as always by a certain crowd during the weekends of July and August. And if the tourists were numerous, the latter adapted to the rise in prices. Thus, inflation obliges, the French for example rented less car this summer. This is revealed by the Carigami online rental comparator. The number of reservations on the platform fell by 10% compared to summer 2022.
“People refer to local solutions. So instead of flying to Corsica for example, they stay on the continent and they use their personal vehicle”, points out Pierre Feisthauer, Carigami’s development manager.
A falling average basket
“So tourism is the same, the desire to leave is the same, but we are looking for economic solutions one following the other”, he continues at the microphone of Europe 1. An example which is drawn up by the Corsicans themselves. same, who ensure that there have been fewer tourists on the island this summer. Another indicator: the average basket of consumers.
According to the company SumUp, which provides payment boxes to many small merchants, the average tourist basket fell by almost 4%, according to their data. The decline is even greater for foreign tourists, and would be down by nearly 12%.
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