Verified against ART, Atout France, Banque de France, DGE, Guide MICHELIN, INSEE, SNCF Gares & Connexions, UN Tourism · 2026-10-13 · estimates are flagged
Market — what the country is
102 minternational visitors, 2025same-day visitors included; metropolitan France
77.5 bn €in travel receipts, 2025balance of payments, travel line
1 / 4rank by arrivals / by receipts, 2025first in the world by volume, fourth by earnings; both ranks come from the publishers, not from this file
460.9 movernight stays, 202513 metropolitan regions
On file — what this register holds
534hotels on file33 Palace, 487 five-star, 14 distinctive
23,388keys recordedacross 331 properties
88starred tables on file30 of three stars; the 2026 guide holds 668 starred tables in France and Monaco
8.7 mvisitors, leading museumMusée du Louvre, 2024
Download the country brief
Two pages, PDF — the same figures as this register, with their years and perimeters
Machine-readable data
JSON, schema molt-country/1 — every figure carries its perimeter code, its year and its state, the perimeter table sits in the same file, and the gaps are an array of their own rather than silence. One file per country, the same keys for every country.
The two rows are different quantities and are kept apart on purpose. The market row is the country as its statistical offices measure it; the register row is what this file holds, which is a selection — every count in it is ours, not a national total.
Reference lists
Ways in
Paris116 upper-tier houses, 7,325 keys · 13 PalaceParis–Charles de Gaulle CDG · 70,000,000 passengers a year, 2025Lyon7 upper-tier houses, 596 keysLyon–Saint-Exupéry LYS · 11,000,000 passengers a year, 20251 h 57 from Paris by railNice6 upper-tier houses, 550 keysNice Côte d'Azur NCE · 14,800,000 passengers a year, 20255 h 40 from Paris by railStrasbourg4 upper-tier houses, 436 keys1 h 46 from Paris by railMarseille5 upper-tier houses, 342 keysMarseille Provence MRS · 10,600,000 passengers a year, 20253 h 10 from Paris by rail
The list is neither chosen nor capped: a town is a way in when the country's own tables give it a gate — an airport of hub role or a named TGV station — and the order is by upper-tier keys. Membership is access; order is demand. Geneva serves the Alps because the register selects by role, not by country. Transfer times from the airport are not here: they are not in the file, and a figure that depends on the hour of the day does not belong in a register.
Stock without a gate of its own
Cannesvia Nice8 upper-tier houses, 1,530 keys · 1 PalaceNice Côte d'Azur NCE · 14,800,000 passengers a year, 20255 h 40 from Paris by railCourchevelvia Genève25 upper-tier houses, 605 keys · 5 PalaceGenève–Cointrin GVA · 17,000,000 passengers a year, 2025Saint-Tropezvia Nice14 upper-tier houses, 458 keys · 2 PalaceNice Côte d'Azur NCE · 14,800,000 passengers a year, 20255 h 40 from Paris by rail
These towns hold more upper-tier keys than most gates, and none of them is a way into the country: they have neither an airport of hub role nor a named TGV station. Cannes stood among the ways in on keys alone, and the airport printed beside it was already Nice. The gate each is reached through is declared in the data, not inferred from distance — Courchevel is reached via Geneva, not via the nearest airstrip.
The five largest regions by overnight stays
Seasonality by quarter
Q1 202565.2 m−1.5%
Q2 202583.5 m+5.4%
Q3 2025103.9 m+2.9%*
Q4 202565.6 m+2.2%
Bars are the same component in every quarter — hotels and other collective accommodation, excluding campsites: hotels (France) and other collective accommodation (metropolitan France). Campsites are left out of the bars on purpose: they are surveyed from April to September only, so the 107.0 m of campsite nights the publisher reports for Q3 2025 have no counterpart in the other quarters, and including them would make the summer the peak by construction rather than by data. On this component the peak is Q3 2025 and the trough Q1 2025: a ratio of 1.59, which is low for Europe and is the reason France sells outside the summer window at all. The figure on the right is the publisher's year-on-year change, each quarter against the same quarter a year earlier. The one marked * the publisher computes on the total including campsites, so it does not sit on the same base as the other three. Source: INSEE, Informations rapides. The four releases sum to 425.2 m while the annual regional series gives 460.9 m; the difference of 35.7 m is second-quarter campsite nights: the survey counts them, the quarterly release does not print them — that reconciliation is ours, not a published figure. Open: the monthly INSEE series (BDM) has not been pulled: the domain is unreachable from this build and it needs a manual download.
Overnight stays in collective tourist accommodation, per INSEE. Rentals booked through platforms are outside this survey, so real volume runs higher.
What is on this site
RegionsAll 13 metropolitan regions of France with 2025 overnight stays, seasonality, prefectures, key destinations, hotel stock and access.Destinations201 destinations across France by region and type: cities, UNESCO heritage, coastline, châteaux, ski resorts and wine country, with the best season for each.ResortsThe ski and seaside resorts of France with the five-star and Palace hotel stock each one holds: Courchevel, Megève, Saint-Tropez, Cannes, Biarritz and more.AttractionsThe most visited attractions in France with annual visitor numbers: the Louvre, Versailles, the Eiffel Tower, Mont-Saint-Michel and more, by region.Festival calendarThe annual festival calendar of France: 69 events from Cannes and Avignon to the Christmas markets, by month and region.HotelsThe upper-tier hotel stock of France: 33 Palace properties, 487 five-star hotels and 14 distinctive houses, with room counts and operators.MICHELIN restaurants — a curated selectionMICHELIN-starred restaurants in France from the 2026 guide, including every three-star table and the starred dining rooms inside hotels.Source marketsInternational visitors, travel receipts and spending by source market, each figure with the year and the perimeter its publisher used.Beach clubsBeach clubs by commune with published lounger rates, season dates and the hotels they belong to, from Pampelonne to the Basque coast.Access and logisticsAirports, railway stations, sea ports and coach stations of France with the passenger volumes their operators publish, and rail journey times from Paris.Hotel groupsThe hotel groups operating luxury properties in France, split between French and international, with the level at which each takes sales decisions.