Skiing: French customers are picking up, stable attendance expected in resorts this winter

Consumers are ready to sacrifice many everyday expenses to protect their leisure time. Expensive ski vacations have become the hyperbole. Despite the expected price increases, attendance will still be high this winter in our mountains, especially in the large high altitude resorts of the northern Alps. But after record years, the overall number of visitors is expected to decline slightly. The G2A institute, which today reveals its data scanning 80% of areas, is counting on a decline (-0.27%) in the number of overnight stays, which would be around 80 million in the Alps, Pyrenees, Vosges or Jura.

The anemic demand for the end-of-year holidays (-6.6% occupancy rate) and spring (-1.2%) weighs on the surge in January and February (+0.2%) or the unprecedented dynamic of the month of March and its low prices (+3.2%). The number of skier days, an area in which France regained its world crown, surpassing Austria last winter, would decline...