TOURISM
Key Figures
2016
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CÔTE D'AZUR TOURISM
The dataset focuses on the Côte d'Azur (French Riviera), defined as the
department of the Alpes-Maritimes and the Principality of Monaco
TOTAL COMMERCIAL ACCOMMODATION
CAPACITY: 150,000 beds
46% of hotel capacity is ranked 4* or 5*.
Nearly 180,000 secondary residences, of which 48,000 are foreign.
8 convention and exhibition centers, and 150,000 convention attendees (air travellers) per year; 1 out of 5 visitors travelling "on business or for a conference".
15 ski resorts provide almost 700 km of slopes and nearly 100 lifts;
600,000 stays (not counting Riviera residents) in the high country.
8 million entries to the tourist attractions with 3 in 98 museums and
monuments.
802,156 cruise passengers (season 2015) in 5 harbours, 18,402 dock spaces
in 35 harbours.
11 million TOURISTS STAY AN AVERAGE OF
6.3 NIGHTS, I.E. 70 MILLION OVERNIGHT STAYS
7.6% of foreign overnight stays in French hotels.
4.2% of the total number of French and foreign overnight stays in France.
26% of tourists arrive by plane and 56% by car, bike or bus.
Nice: 2nd airport in France with 12 million passengers.
Nice-Cannes-St Tropez is the 2nd European hub of business aviation.
200,000: the average number of tourists present, ranging from 50,000 in
mid-January to 650,000 during the August 15th weekend.
MORE THAN 1 OUT OF 2 STAYS TAKES PLACE OUTSIDE
THE SUMMER MONTHS
The peak month - August - represents only 14% of annual stays.
FOREIGN VISITORS: 48% OF STAYS AND
t stays
51% of overnigh
18% of foreign tourists come from Italy, 17% from Great Britain-Ireland,
and 8% from Germany.
KEY FIGURES
73% of tourists have already stayed in the region, and 9 out of 10 are
"very satisfied".
TOURISTIC EXPENSES RELATED TO STAYS: €5.8 billion
GENERATING A TOTAL REVENUE OF €10 BILLION
AROUND 18% OF LOCAL GDP
64% of the expenditure comes from foreign clientele, and one fifth is
generated by business clientele. The average expenditure (2014/15) for
visitors travelling by air is €62 per day for French people and €110 for
foreigners. The business clientele spends €162 per day and even €223
for conference attendees.
Average rate of a hotel room: €152 taxes included (RevPAR: €90) in 2014.
Urban Hotels price 2015: €162 (plus taxes), RevPar €103.
16 casinos (4 of which are in Monaco), for a gross profit of €364 million
in 2014/2015.
75,000 jobs in "TOURISM"
Or about 16% of total employment; seasonal employment accounts for
only 17.5% of the annual total. Together with indirect employment, the total
number of jobs generated by tourism could reach 150,000.
THE GREAT CÔTE D'AZUR:
1% OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISTS IN THE WORLD!
The Côte d'Azur, as a tourist destination, or French Riviera, actually extends
over three territories: the French departments of the Alpes-Maritimes and the
Var, and the Principality of Monaco. It is the "Great Côte d'Azur", 1st tourist
destination in France after Paris, with 20 million tourists generating over
130 million overnight stays, as well as 1.2 million cruise passengers.
The Great French Riviera constitutes the 1st French tourist destination, in front
of the city of Paris, for domestic clientele with 3.5% of total trips and 4.8%
of overnight stays (2014-15 average). For foreign clientele, the region is
ranked second, with nearly one out of 10 foreign stays in France, and a
remarkable 1% share of the global market.
The Great French Riviera’s share of secondary residences in mainland France
is 11%, and 24% for sole foreign secondary residences.
It is also the third hub of touristic investment in France (not counting
Monaco), after the Great Paris and the Savoie-Mont-Blanc mountain range
(880 million € on yearly average 2012-14).
TRANSPORTATION
NICE CÔTE D’AZUR : 2nd airport IN FRANCE
AFTER PARIS
It is directly connected to 108 destinations in 38 countries through
61 airlines. In 2015, its total traffic reached 12 million passengers
(+3%). Visitors staying in the Great Côte d’Azur (Alpes-Maritimes, Var
or Monaco) represent 53% of the total traffic.
European
THE 22NDndEUROPEAN
H UBhub FOR BUSINESS AVIATION
Côte d’Azur (Nice-Cannes-St Tropez) is the 2nd business hub in
Europe after London, with 45,948 aircraft movements in 2015.
MORE THAN 800.000 CRUISE PASSENGERS
In the harbors of Nice, Villefranche, Monaco, Cannes, Antibes:
547 cruise stopovers in 2015 and a total of 802,156 cruise passengers. 94% of passengers are stopping over and 6% are embarking.
35 marinas provide 18,402 dock spaces.
TOURISTS PRIMARILY ARRIVE BY CAR
Airplanes are used by 14% of French people and 38% of foreigners.
Boat
2%
Train
16%
Airplane
26%
% of 2014-15 arrivals
Car or
bike
56%
ACCOMMODATION
150,000 BEDS IN COMMERCIAL ACCOMMODATION
Capacity by accommodation type
on 1/01/2016
ESTABLISHMENTSBEDS
Ranked hotels
Tourism residences
Ranked Campsites
Ranked holiday villages and "family homes"
Youth accommodation centres Country house lodges*
619
58,154
69
25,097
67
20,118
113,397
13
1,094
538
2,807
Total ranked accommodation excluding furnished rentals 1,317110,667
Formerly ranked hotels
Residential hotels
Other residences Private vacation centres and holiday centres
Shelters and stopover lodges Bed and breakfasts*
Unranked campsites
24
24
31
27
56
365
29
834
4,289
2,462
5,674
1,506
2,165
3,060
Total unranked accommodation
556
19,990
Bed capacity in registered commercial accommodations, excluding unranked hotels, furnished rentals, time
shares, children’s centres, student residences or language schools, boats, and caravans.
*Country house lodges certified "Gîtes de France" only; a portion of the bed and breakfasts ("chambres d'hôtes")
are certified "Gîtes de France".
nked beds
HOTELS REPRESENT 1 out of 2 ra
Distribution of ranked capacity
Holiday villages,
centres & youth accom.
Campsites
Country house lodges (Gîtes)
2%
4%
19%
Hotels
53%
Tourism residences
(Apartment hotels)
22%
% 2015 beds
ACCOMMODATION
NEARLY 1 OUT OF 2 HOTEL ROOMS HAS A 4-5* RANK
CATEGORY
5*
4*
3*
2*
1*
Formerly ranked
Total
HOTELS%
ROOMS%
33 5
112 18
227 35
214 33
33 5
24
4
643 100
3,67212
9,92534
9,35332
5,32518
8023
417
1
29,494100
ht stays
HOTELS: 4 OUT OF 10 STAYS, 14% of overnig
Other accommodations
Secondary
residences
9%
14%
38%
Friends and
Relatives
Hotels
22%
7%
Tourism residences (Apartment hotels)
10%
% of 2014-15 stays
Rentals
For overnight stays, the portion of accommodations is reversed due to different lengths
of stays: non-commercial accommodations (secondary residences and friends or
relatives) generate more than one out of two overnight stays, and the hotel industry
only generates 14%.
OCCUPANCY AND STAYS
Ranked hotels annually receive 4 million stays and 9 million overnight stays;
Tourism residences receive 0.7 million stays and 3 million overnight stays.
2015
OCCUPANCY RATE ARRIVALS OVERNIGHT STAYS AVERAGE LENGHT
(%)
(in thousands) (in thousands)
(nights)
HOTELS 61
4,326
9,726
Formerly ranked 50
202
369
1* 58
113
223
2* 58 7401,469
3* 63 1,2702,884
4*/5*62 1,674 3,868
MONACO67
328
886
TOURISM RES. 65
664
3,091
CAMPSITES40
154
934
2.3
2.0
2.0
2.0
2.3
2.3
2.7
4.7
6.1
ACCOMMODATION
SECONDARY RESIDENCES: 1 out of 4 overnight stays
Nearly 180,000 secondary residences in the Alpes-Maritimes, including Monaco
(i.e. nearly 900,000 beds), of which 48,000 are owned by foreigners (ranked 1st
in France with 15,7% of the national total). 5,7% of the registered secondary
residences in France are in the Alpes-Maritimes. 14% of stays and 25% of
overnight stays occur in secondary residences.
NICE CÔTE D'AZUR METROPOLIS: ONE THIRD OF THE
ACCOMMODATION CAPACITY
Of the total number of beds in commercial accommodation and in secondary
residences, 33.4% are located in the Nice Metropolis area, 25.8% in the CannesMandelieu hub, and 19.3% in the Antibes-Sophia Antipolis hub.
AREA
CANNES-MANDELIEU
HOTELS
Nb TOURISM RES.
Beds
SECOND. RES.
Beds
Nb Beds
134
13,782 3111,34545,514
227,570
including Cannes
106 11,418
including Mandelieu
28 2,364
(incl. Théoule, Le Cannet, Mougins)
CASA ANTIBES-SOPHIA
Nb 122
8,824
17
14
7,071
4,274
29,665148,325
15,849 79,245
22
7,125
34,569
172,845
including Antibes
77 5,480
15
4,793
24,679 123,395
including Villeneuve-Valbonne 45
3,344 72,3329,890
49,450
NICE CÔTE D'AZUR METROPOLIS
280 25,908
27
includ. western seaboard metropolis40 2,280
including the City of Nice
171 19,974
includ. eastern seaboard metropolis36
2,474
including the mountain metropolis 33 1,180
7,301
58,955 294,775
5
1,514 10,421 52,105
9
2,026
28,998 144,990
41,1337,342
36,710
9
2,628
12,194 60,970
MENTON - FRENCH RIVIERA
40
3,012
9
2,590
REGION OF GRASSE 21
1,476
1
214
4,024
20,120
MOUNTAINS, OUTSIDE METROPOLIS
33
1,030
3
811
13,682
68,410
MOUNTAINS, TOTAL
66
2,210
12
3,439
MONACO
TOTAL
134,956
643 58,988
0
93
21,199 105,995
25,876 129,380
0
29,386
696 3,480
178,639 893,195
OTHER FACILITIES
A RICH AND DIVERSE TOURISTIC PROPOSITION
8 convention centres, providing 123 meeting rooms
5,728 restaurants (excluding Monaco), and 34 Michelin-starred restaurants
17 golf courses, 10 of which are "18-hole" courses
16 casinos, including 4 in Monaco and 3 in Cannes
200 beaches under concession agreements
28 spas and thalassotherapy centres
Many protected areas: Mercantour National Park, the Préalpes d'Azur Regional Natural Park,
15 natural departmental parks.
VISITOR NUMBERS
11 million
TOURISTS
Tourists stay an average of 6,3 nights in 2014-15 (i.e. 6.0 nights for the French,
6.3 nights for Foreigners), a total of 70 million overnight stays, all types of accommodation included, throughout the year. Excursionists (i.e. day trippers) number in the
multimillions each year. These figures do not take Côte d’Azur resident stays into
account.
AN AVERAGE OF 200,000 VISITORS A DAY
Depending on the day, there are between 50,000 and 650,000 tourists on the Côte
d'Azur; the lowest level is in mid-December, and the peak of each year is the August
15th weekend. These figures do not take excursionists into account.
700 000
Aug. 14th
600 000
mid-July
500 000
400 000
300 000
mid-May
200 000
end-October
end-February
100 000
0
son : FEWER THAN 1 OUT OF 2
The summer sea
ARRIVALS, BUT 6 OUT OF 10 OVERNIGHT STAYS
June to September comprises 45% of arrivals and - due to longer stays during vacation
periods - 60% of the total annual overnight stays.
Distribution of arrivals throughout the year
% 16
14,3
11,9
12
10,1
8
5,4
6,0
6,6
7,9
9,7
8,9
8,3
5,1
5,7
4
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Occupancy rate by month (%)
2015
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Year
Hotels
37
45
48
60
71
77
83
86
77
62
39
37
61
Tourism Res.
47
58
55
62
70
70
81
89
79
67
43
46
65
VISITOR NUMBERS
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF TOURIST stays
Mountains/ski resorts
Grasse area
5%
Monaco 3%
4%
Menton
Cannes
Mandelieu
36%
Nice city
7%
15%
% of 2014-15 stays
17%
13%
Nice Metropolis/seaside
Antibes CASA
In terms of overnight stays, the lower share of Nice (26%) benefits to all other areas.
VISITS AND EXCURSIONS: 3 OUT OF 4 TOURISTS ALSO VISIT
OTHER PLACES
The primary destination for day tripper tourist excursions is the Principality of
Monaco, which welcomes 7.5 million visitors. The most popular tourist attraction is
Marineland, which welcomes 1.2 million visitors.
8 million ENTRIES TO THE TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
Main attractions
Visitors 2015
Marineland
1,2 million (2014)
Parfumerie Fragonard - Grasse, Eze
Verrerie de Biot
900,000
700,007 (2014)
Musée Océanographique de Monaco
665,302
Parc floral Phoenix - Nice
394,599
Lérins Islands - Cannes
368,665
Parfumerie Molinard - Grasse
300,000
Other attractions
Jardin Exotique - Eze
195,417
Fondation Rothschild - St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
168,047
Musée Picasso - Antibes
141,084
Fondation Maeght - Saint-Paul
137,524
Musée national Chagall - Nice
132,782
Musée Matisse - Nice
131,767
Jardin Exotique - Monaco
115,270
60%:
proportion of the total number of entries recorded at the 10 principal museums and
monuments (out of 98 museums and monuments, totalling 2,835,000 entries in 2015).
CÔTE D’AZUR Mountains
600,000 TOURISTS IN THE HIGH COUNTRY
The mountains, the "other" Côte d'Azur, receive 5% of the
tourists (excluding French Riviera residents), and 6% of the
total overnight stays due to longer lengths of stays.
There are 150,000 beds in the mountains, including
130,000 in secondary residences and 20,000 in commercial
accommodations.
The Mercantour National Park attracts around 400,000 visitors.
15 ski resorts PROVIDING NEARLY
700 KM OF SLOPES
Overall, the resorts provide 233 downhill ski runs, 29 cross
country ski trails, and 96 lifts. Lodging capacity amounts to
nearly 10,000 beds.
The resorts receive around 300,000 non-Riviera tourists in the
winter, and 120,000 in the summer.
200,000 TOURIST STAYS IN the summer
During the summer of 2009, the average length of
mountain tourist stays (excluding the Préalpes d'Azur area) was
9.3 nights. One third of the clientele was foreign.
Visits to the principal cultural sites in the mountains
Visitors 2015
Alpha le Temps du Loup - St Martin Vésubie63,242
Merveilles Museum - Tende 28,732
Monts d’Azur Reserve - Haut Thorenc - Andon25,000
Mercantour National Park - Tende 14,909
Notre Dame des Fontaines Church - La Brigue9,333
Monastery - Saorge 8,773
Marcel Kroenlein Arboretum - Roure 6,815
(excluding natural sites and recreation centres)
CLIENTELE
3 OUT OF 10 FRENCH TOURISTS ARE FROM Paris
French visitors: 5.6 million stays, 33 million overnight stays (2014-15 average)
Area of origin (from mainland France)
North
3,5%
Paris
26,6%
West
6,2%
Paris
Region East
3,7%
East
4,7%
Paris
Region
West
3,8%
South East
16,7%
South West
6,5%
Mediterranean Coast
28,3 %
PURPOSE OF STAY: 1 OUT OF 5 VISITORS
ness
travelling on busi
Business
Leisure Tourism
and others
12%
4%
Conferences/MICE
58%
26%
Visiting
Friends/Relatives
% of 2014-15 stays
On average, business stays last 4.6 nights, and leisure stays last 6.6 nights.
57%: rate of business trips (among air travel visitors) carried out for connectionsmeetings-appointments (22% for conferences-seminars, 9% for exhibitions-trade fairs,
4% for education-training, and 6% for other professional reasons).
150,000 convention attendees (air travel visitors) who spend €225 per day
(2014-15 average).
CLIENTELE
Principal markets in 2015
Stays
(in thousands)
%
Including Hotels/Resid.
(in thousands)
%
1 Italy
992
17.4
328
12.6
2 Great Britain/Ireland
930
16.4
418
16.1
3 Germany
482
8.5
216
8.3
4 USA
446
7.8
270
10.4
5 Scandinavia
389
6.8
166
6.4
6 Switzerland
279
4.9
133
5.1
7 East. Europe, excl. Russia
279
4.9
125
4.8
8 Belgium-Lux.
235
4.1
89
3.4
9 Russia
222
3.9
128
4.9
10 Spain
209
3.7
94
3.6
11 Netherlands
186
3.3
66
2.5
12 Africa
164
2.9
36
1.4
13 Middle East
138
2.4
75
2.9
14 China
121
2.1
90
3.5
15 Latin America
107
1.9
69
2.7
16 Oceania
100
1.8
68
2.6
17 Asia, excluding Japan/China
94
1.7
57
2.2
18 Canada
83
1.4
45
1.7
19 Austria
62
1.1
32
1.2
20 Others*
171
3.0
88
3.4
5,687
100
2,597
100
TOTAL
50%: rate of foreign clientele out of total stays
27%: rate of non-European clientele out of total foreign stays
WHO ARE THE LEISURE VISITORS?
Travelling 3 + adults,
no child
9%
Seniors
(age + 60)
Young people
(age - 25)
17%
Travelling
alone (age 25-59)
20%
26%
10%
Travelling 3 + adults,
including child
4% 14%
Families
Couples
or
2 adults
(age 25-59)
% of 2014-15 stays
visitors travelling by air
*in order: Japan, Turkey, Portugal, Greece; provisional data.
Foreigners : HALF OF TOURISM ATTENDANCE
ECONOMY
TOURISTS DIRECTLY SPEND €5.8 BILLION,
GENERATING €10 BILLION IN revenue
Tourism expenditures are reported by tourists and associated with their stay, without
taking transportation to destination into account. Expenditures reach €5,8 billion a year
(2014-15 average). This doesn’t include proceeds from casino games, which reached
€364 million in 2014/15. The revenue collected through the tourist tax amounts to
€11.8 million every year.
Because of the multiplier effect, unreported intermediate tourist expenditures, and day
tripper expenditures, the total revenue generated by tourism is estimated at €10 billion.
Tourism’s contribution to the local GDP is around 18%.
Visitor expenditure (air travel): €703 per stay, i.e. €99 per person per day (2014-15 average).
20%: proportion of total expenditures resulting from business travel
64%: proportion of expenditures resulting from foreign tourists
Average expense/day
(visitors travelling by air 2014-2015)
Short stay (1-3 nights)
€203
Long stay (4 nights-4 months) €85
First time
€123
Repeat€92
Commercial accommodation
€166
Non-commercial accommodation €54
Secondary residences €61
Business travel
€162
Leisure travel €92
HOTEL PERFORMANCE
2014
5*
4*
3*
2*
1*
Average
(1)
Average Rate
435
161
96
68
51
152
RevPar
144
59
38
28
90
€ taxes included, exclude restaurants expenses - average numbers based
on real capacities of all hotels
(1) Exclude exclusive hotels
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e110
100
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60
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French
Foreigners
Foreigners daily expense
Highest spenders
1 Middle East - Iran
+€200
2 Turkey €160
2USA
€140
4 Russia - Australia
€130
5 India - China
€120
6 Japan - Brazil - Malaysia - Greece €110
7 Korea - Norway
€100
Lowest spenders 1Hungary
2 Portugal 3 Poland 50 €
56 €
57 €
75,000 DIRECT jobs in TOURISM
In the summer of 2007, INSEE estimated that 52,494 salaried jobs and 10,000 nonsalaried jobs in the Alpes-Maritimes (excluding Monaco) were directly related to
tourism. Seasonal employment accounted for only 17.5% of total salaried employment.
Together with indirect employment, the total number of jobs generated by tourism could
reach 150,000.
THE CRT CÔTE D'AZUR
TOURISM OBSERVATORY
Tourism is a complex market, with multiple products, clienteles, and rapid changes.
Measuring it requires the establishment of a system of tourism statistics (STS).
The Côte d'Azur Tourism Observatory - a hub of the Côte d'Azur Regional Tourism
Committee - started developping the STS Touriscope in 1984. The Observatory is bound
by conventions to the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region, to the Alpes-Maritimes
Departmental Council, to the Nice Tourist Office, and to the Principality of Monaco.
On the technical front, it collaborates with INSEE, the CCI Nice-Côte d’Azur, the trade
unions, and specialized consultants, and develops the methodology and statistical
databases on tourism supply and demand.
The Côte d'Azur TOURISCOPE system
It consists of all the surveys that enable the statistical monitoring of supply and demand as
well as an innovative data operating system based on the systematic cross-referencing of
information and the exploitation of sources according to their respective relevance.
The statistical results are integrated into the Côte d'Azur Touriscope database. This signature
guarantees the official source and the consistency of the numeric information concerning
Côte d'Azur tourism.
Design: Comité Régional du Tourisme Côte d’Azur. © CRT Côte d'Azur, Webelse
The principal on-going surveys
l Hotels (CRT-INSEE-Ministry of Tourism)
l Tourism residences and holiday residences (CRT)
l Campsites (CRT-INSEE)
l Hotel Performance (MKG-CRT)
l SDT French Visitors (TNS Sofres-Ministry of Tourism)
l Visetran Foreign Visitors (CRT-Tourist Offices)
l Visavion Air Travel Visitors (CRT-MTA)
l Museums and sites (CRT)
Documents for dissemination
l The Observatory’s website: www.cotedazur-touriscope.com
l The annual "key figures" leaflet
l The Dossiers (annual reports by topic)
l The Tourism Barometer (monthly conditions and annual trends)
l The Thematic factsheets and market reports
455, Promenade des Anglais - Horizon - CS 53126 - 06203 NICE cedex 3 - France
Tel. 00 33 (0)4 93 37 78 78 Fax 00 33 (0)4 93 86 01 06
www.cotedazur-tourisme.com and www.cotedazur-touriscope.com
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