France is the most visited country in the world

Foreign tourists were 84.7 million to visit France in 2013, again placing France at the top of the most visited country before the United States and Spain.

Crowing! France remains the most visited in the world, with 84.7 million foreign tourists in the year 2013 According to an annual study released Monday countries, the number of visitors may have increased by 2% from 2012 . This is still far from the target of 100 million of foreign minister Laurent Fabius but it comes close, as already shown an initial study published last January. In second and third place on the podium, there is the United States and Spain, which recorded 69.8 and 60.7 million foreign tourist arrivals respectively.
France, whose capital remains the world's top tourist destination in 2013, was particularly popular with European tourists (1.2%), starting with the Germans, who were 13 million to visit the country (6, 5%), followed by the British. However, the Belgian tourists, Luxembourg, Italy and Spain were fewer than 2012, detailed in this study support the general direction of competitiveness issues (DGCIS) at the Ministry of Economy and the Bank of France.
Americans and Asians are more outside Europe

Outside Europe, it is coming from customers in North America with the most trodden French soil last year. This position is with a 5.8% increase in tourist arrivals, following a decline of 7.8% in 2012 Asian tourists are also coming more numerous: they are 4.5 million have visited France, an increase of nearly 13% compared to 2012 growth driven in particular by the influx of Chinese tourists (1.7 million, 23.4%): "their attraction to France proved for many years: the Chinese tourist arrivals doubled between 2009 and 2013. "In contrast, Japanese customers were down 6.7% amid weaker yen against the euro.
Tourists are also longer. The length of stay from 6.9 nights in 2012 to 7.7 in 2013, an increase of 2.5%. However, the number of nights spent in paid accommodations increased less rapidly than the number of nights spent in France (3.2% against 4.6%), and commercial accommodation accounted for 67.1% of all nights in 2013, against 68% in 2012 and 69.6% in 2007.
A hotel may offer inadequate

The study explains this gap primarily by the economic crisis and looking for spending cuts, via hosting from family or friends, or apartment exchange. Moreover, according to the DGCIS and the Bank of France, "the offer of accommodation merchants, including hotel, is perhaps not fully in line with the expectations of foreign tourists. It is suggested that a study conducted in 2012 DGCIS. "

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