Invited to present their vision of French tourism to professionals, candidates have stole away. Despite the interest aroused by the CVIV-19 crisis, the sector remains in the dead corner of the political world.
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so soon disappeared. Tourism, put in full light during the pandemic with the stop of travel and the closure of the restaurants, strongly supported by state aid and massive loans, winner of departmental arbitrations and beneficiary of a specific stimulus plan, seems already returned in the shadow to which the policy has relegated it since the end of Gaullism. The subject remains in the perspective of candidates for the presidential election, despite its role in the spatial planning and its economic and social importance, with these figures that the actors repeat as a mantra: two million Jobs, 7.5% of the gross domestic product, the first positive contributor to the balance of payments. And zero mention in the president candidate program, Emmanuel Macron.
Demonstration of the disinterest of the sector: Not a candidate had moved, Wednesday, March 23, to address representative organizations. The day before, Valérie Pécresse (LR), Fabien Roussel (PCF) and Eric Zemmour (recapture!) Had expressed in front of the hunters (1.1 million practitioners). In five guests by the French Institute of Tourism (IFT), chosen according to the opinion surveys, four had sent a representative; Jean-Luc Mélenchon had to agree, the day before, that no one in his campaign was sufficiently enlightened in the matter to talk about the subject.
The replacement at the foot raised as a representative of Yannick Jadot (EELV), the tour operator Christian Soubra was well forced to admit that, in his movement too, the subject did not exist: “For twenty years, I say to my Party that tourism is an unthinkic. It is complicated to make them understand that when we talk about two hours at sports actors (March 17, facing the French National Olympic and Sports Committee), it’s good to take twenty minutes to talk to tourism actors. “
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Las. The appointment has mainly highlighted the lack of political vision on topics specific to the sector: how to make more French access to the holidays? How to preserve the easy domestic clientele that has favored the Hexagon for two years? What future for the promotional body Atout France? A quel échelon territorial la politique du tourisme doit-elle être confiée ? Quels indicateurs et moyens de pilotage de cette politique ? Comment relancer l’attractivité du secteur, héberger les saisonniers, faciliter la transition environnementale du secteur, préparer le changement climatique, répartir les flux touristiques, favoriser le tourisme ferroviaire, gérer la prolifération de la location saisonnière ?
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