Study: France tops the list of countries received more tourists in 2013 to 84.7 million tourists

France topped the list of countries received more visitors in the world in 2013 with 84.7 million foreign tourists in a rise of 2% compared with 2012, the annual study showed.

And occupied by the United States and Spain ranked second and third, respectively, with 69.8 and 60.7 million foreign tourists, according to the results of this study conducted by the public administration in charge of competitiveness issues in the Ministry of Economy and the Bank of France. 

France and attracted tourists, especially Europeans (+1.2%) from the Germans, who number 13 million visitors (up 6.5%), followed by British tourists is that the descendants of Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy and Spain were less number compared with the results of 2012. 

North America represents the most prominent source of tourists to France from outside Europe, this site has been enhanced with a rise of 5.8% of the number of arrivals of North Americans after a decline of 7.8% in 2012. 

Also recorded an increase of Asian tourists to France, who numbered 4.5 million, up nearly 13% compared with 2012. 

This increase is especially due to the greater flow of Chinese tourists (1.7 million, up 23.4% from 2012), the study has pointed to the large gravity carried by France for Chinese tourists who have doubled in number between 2009 and 2013. 

In contrast, the proportion of Japanese tourists recorded a decline B6,7%, especially given the decline in the exchange rate of the Japanese yen against the euro. 

The study also pointed out that the foreign tourists who visited France in 2013 had increased the rate of days they spent in this country to 7.1 nights versus 6.9 in 2012 (an increase of 2.5%). 

However, the number of nights spent by tourists in the tourist facilities paid record increase slower than the average number of nights spent by tourists aesthetic in France (3.2% vs. 4.6%), and the percentage of nights the price paid 67.1% of the total nights spent by tourists in 2013, compared with 68% in 2012 and 69.6 percent in 2007. 

The study attributes this difference primarily to the economic crisis, and to seek the era of expenditure across accommodation with members of the family or with friends or sharing apartments.

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