Coronavirus: impact on the tourism industry in France - statistics & facts
The tourism sector has shown resilience in the face of many major events such as geopolitical conflicts, natural disasters, and epidemics. Whether this will be the case in the face of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic remains to be seen. In 2020, travel restrictions and containment measures to control the spread of the virus led to a drastic decrease in global tourism. As a result, global revenue from the travel and tourism industry in that year was estimated to drop from a forecasted 711.94 billion U.S. dollars to 568.6 billion U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, when looking at a ranking of countries with the highest tourism revenue loss due to COVID-19, France, one of the top tourist destinations in the world, suffered the third highest tourism loss worldwide after the United States and Spain.
