There’s been a lot of handwringing on French television during the much publicised one-day strikes over pension reform because of a fear that protests will harm tourism and tarnish France’s image.
There’s little evidence though that strikes harm France’s economy overall. France is not going to lose its crown as the most visited country in the world—it is the world’s 7th largest economy and tourism accounts for 10% of GDP—and early evidence suggests that long-haul business is booming for May and June.
Where France’s strikes do have an impact, however, is on individual travel plans—where the data so far for 2023 shows that 10 million passengers have already been affected by the unrest.
The figures suggest that pent-up demand from the tail end of the pandemic has not dented the demand for Parisian getaways, despite pictures of rotting garbage on the streets or the threat of air traffic controller strikes.
The Sojern Digital Marketing Platform reports that US travelers return to Europe in giant numbers, with the US for Paris 33% of the 2022 figures.
Trainline Europe has recently seen an uptick in bookings to Paris—it is currently the most popular destination for groups of three or more travelers and with London, it is the number one destination for solo travelers. Likewise, TripIt reports that perennial faves London, Paris and Rome are top long-haul destinations for Americans traveling in June.
As a result, travel app Hopper reports that airfare to Europe is already the highest it has been in the past 5 years, with trips to Europe currently averaging $1,167 per ticket for summer departures, 36% more expensive than last year or about $317 more per ticket.
The value of the penalty is through a combination of low capacity, higher fuel and a call, in the hopper, travelers are directed to London, Paris and Tokyo of the United States.
France is also protected through a giant domestic tourism market. Only 30% of French tourism comes from long-distance foreign visitors, traditionally, French love holidays in their own country, enjoying their own mountains, cities, lakes and beaches, and many trips to those posts for the August peak, when the country closes a national break. Unions of this sacrosanct era: they do not seek to aggravate hoteliers and restaurants or alienate you from angry tourists who cannot succeed in their destinations.
There is knowledge to recommend that political disturbances and action lead to a small number of bed occupation nights, the metric through which the knowledge of tourism is judged. During the pre-pandemic protests of “yellow vest” opposite to social inequality in 2019, the occupation of the bed fell, however, it is very unlikely to know if those visitors canceled or simply cover for a later date.
Insee (French National Institute of Statistics) analyzed past social demonstrations and found that there was very little effect on economic growth. In addition, because many attack actions are connected in the shipping sector, it is supplied that have an effect on this motion in 2023 will remain limited because the pandemic has shaped everyone to online paintings, which means that other people can seamlessly adapt to the disruptions of transience to their shipping habit.
Additionally, while France is known as being a country that loves to protest, the number of strike days is lower today than in the 1970s and in the past few summers, it is more likely that water shortages, fire risks and heatwaves might offer tourists a greater incentive to head elsewhere.
The genuine loser of the movements is the individual traveler, many of which have been delicate since the beginning of the movements in January.
The European Framework for Eurocontrol Air Traffic Control has published knowledge for the organ consistent between March 1 and April 9, when 10 million travelers were touched through delays or cancellations, or 64,000 passengers consisting of Day Just in France In general, the punctuality of the airplanes is almost 80%, but the days of strike decreased to around 70%.
It is just a challenge for taking off flights and touchdown in France, because many flights pass through French airspace. Then, one given day, up to 3,300 flights take off and land at the French airports, however, another 3,700 pass through the French airspace, and 16% of them were affected through the traffic controller move air (although This figure increases if it also includes more canceled flights more than 3 days before any planned attack action).
Ryanair, Air France and EasyJet are the top 3 delay and cancelled airlines in this period. Ryanair, in particular, to ask the EU to protect spaces from the same refund and shield projects as flights in France, because it argues that UK flying consumers in Italy deserve not to put up with French movements when they didn’t. set foot in the country.
While France was the maximum affected through the flight action, Spain also underwent 15% in the exits behind the schedules and a 63% construction in cancellations the same time. The United Kingdom, Italy and Germany suffered between 6 and 8% of rear or canceled flights, basically flying.
Throughout Europe, a 34 -day commercial action general in the EU countries had an effect on 237,000 flights; As a comparison, the eruption of the Eyjafjalajökull volcano in April 2010 had an effect on one hundred 000 flights.
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