Domestic tourism in France - statistics & facts
Domestic travel refers to citizens of a country traveling within their country’s borders for recreation, as opposed to traveling internationally. In France, the number of domestic overnight French visitors peaked in 2013, before experiencing a steady decline up to 2019. Despite the decline in domestic overnight visitors, domestic tourism expenditure in France increased slightly over the same period. However, both figures experienced a steep drop in 2020 due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the global travel industry. Nevertheless, domestic travel was not as hard hit as the international travel market, with border closures severely limiting traveling abroad. In 2020, a majority of the French population, nearly 70 percent, indicated that they did in fact take a domestic trip in France that year.
