Week posting for friday 26th january 07

Article selected : An exceptional year-end: France’s hotels reach the upper range of MKG’s forecast in 2006, 18.01.07

This Article sheds light on the exceptional result of French hotel’s generated at the year-end. In effect, the RevPAR up by 10% in December (especially for luxury establishment which has realized the best performance since 1999) and this leads to a 7% up for the year. This increase is also available for the Occupancy rate: + 0,7 % for the year with a significant 4% up for Deluxe Hotels.

See below the results:

The reasons of this exceptional closure are numerous:

- a better political environment
- christmas day was on Sunday
- the increase of business group in Paris
- the increase of package offer for new-year
- all the workshops, parades show in december…

Regarding this result we can imagine that the France will maintain its position of first world destination and get better fall: in fact, even if it’s the first country visited, the France is not the leader in terms of revenue and so it can be one of the tourism professionals' challenge.

Link :

http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/154000320/4029979.html