The summer is looking to have been good for the freanch tourism industry as local and foreign holidaymakers swarmed the country after the covide -19 pandemic ratteld the sector for two years.
Tourism Minister Olivia gregoire told a news conference that preliminary data showed summer 2022 had been “exceptionl”
Meanwhile, credit card spending during summer rose 10% from 2019 in French hotels and restaurants, she said.
France depends heavily on tourism, which generates 8 percent of the national gross domestic product and provides two million jobs.
In 2019 France was the most visited country in the world, attracting nearly 90 million foreign tourists.