- Type
- Museum
- Town / region
- Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Visitors per year
- 300,000 · estimate — verify before use
- Hotel stock in town
- 7 upper-tier · 596 keys recorded
- Palace properties in town
- Sofitel Lyon Bellecour, Villa Florentine, Le Royal Lyon
- Nearest gateways
- Genève–Cointrin (GVA), Lyon–Saint-Exupéry (LYS)
- Access
- Lyon is the regional hub, but the Alpine resorts are more often reached via Geneva — it is closer to Courchevel than Lyon is. Chambéry and Grenoble open up in winter and go quiet in summer. Moûtiers and Bourg-Saint-Maurice are the rail terminals for resort transfers.
- Also on file in the region
- Le Pal (730,000), Musée des Confluences (708,965), Walibi Rhône-Alpes (667,000), Téléphérique du Brévent (648,280)
- Region volume
- 61.4 m overnight stays in 2025 across Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 12 departments
- Season
- Two peaks: Dec–Mar and Jul–Aug
- Events in the region
- Nuits de Fourvière (Jul), Fête des Lumières (Dec), Les Nuits Sonores (May), Musilac (Jul)
- The regional market
- Twin seasonality: Alpine winter and a lake-and-mountain summer. This is where France's mountain luxury sits — Courchevel, Megève, Val d'Isère.
- From Paris by rail
- Lyon — 1 h 57 by TGV, Chambéry — 3 h 00 by TGV
Estimate from secondary sources; treat as an order of magnitude. verified 26 August 2026.