France has started the year well again. The first signs for the coming summer are excellent. The current winter is also going very well, and the crocus holidays in France also seem to be receiving a lot of enthusiasm from the Dutch. This became apparent at the well-attended Explore France workshop in the Utrecht where also Mice specialists were given the updates of twenty or so partners who had come over from France. A big event this year will be the World Cup Rugby.
France also looks back on a successful 2022. The Dutch know how to find France again, from Normandy and Brittany to the interior and the southern coasts.
‘As we approach the end of the year, the Atout France Netherlands team is thrilled to read the latest statistics from INSEE on visitors to France between April and September 2022, making Dutch travelers the second most present nationality ! As visitors from Europe make up the largest share of non-resident tourist visits (with a +1.6% increase in overnight stays), the two main clientele in terms of overnight stays come from the Netherlands and Germany . During the summer of 2022, each of these two countries generated more than 15 million overnight stays in mainland France, +6.9% and +11.2% respectively compared to the same period in 2019.’
The partners present at the event were, also shown in the photo:
North France
Calvados (Normandy)
part of Greater Paris: Seine-et-Marne Attractivité with 5 partners – Melun Val de Seine, Meaux, Fontainebleau, Provins and Moret-sur-Loing) and Grand Roissy
Strasbourg (Alsace)
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (Burgundy, Montagnes du Jura)
Morzine-Avoriaz
Cote d’Azur France
Nîmes with EDEIS Romanité (Occitinia)
Marseille (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur)
IECH hotels and services
Ethic Etapes (sustainable accommodations)
A list of major events in 2023
19 January 2023 – NBA PARIS GAME 2023, Paris, Île-de-France
6-19 February 2023 – ALPINE SKI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023, Courchevel and Méribel
March 2023 – NEW EXHIBITION SPACE AND RENOVATION OF D-DAY MUSEUM, Arromanches, Normandy
April 2023 – OPENING OF NANCY THERMAL SPA COMPLEX, Nancy, Grand-Est
Spring 2023 – A NEW MARITIME HERITAGE REDESIGNED IN HONFLEUR, Honfleur, Normandy
Spring 2023 – THE CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DE LA LANGUE FRANCAISE, Villers-Cotterets, Hauts-de-France
Spring 2023 – RENOVATION OF THE HOTEL CARLTON CANNES 5*, Cannes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Spring 2023 – HOTEL DES CARMES 5*, Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
8-18 June 2023 – THE ROUEN ARMADA, Rouen, Normandy
22-25 June 2023 – BORDEAUX FÊTE LE VIN BECOMES AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL, Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
30 June–2 July 2023 – THE RETURN OF ANJOU VÉLO VINTAGE, Saumur, Pays de la Loire
17-29 July 2023 – THE 50TH ROLEX FASTNET RACE, Cherbourg, Normandy
22-23 July 2023 – 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FÊTE DES RAMPARTS, Dinan, Brittany
8 September–28 October 2023 – RUGBY WORLD CUP 2023, nine host cities across France
10 September 2023–Spring 2024 – THE RACE AROUND 2023, La Rochelle, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
October/November 2023 – 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRANSAT JACQUES VABRE, Le Havre, Normandy
2023 – GARDEN FESTIVALS, Cote d’Azur & Loire Valley
2023 – THE LIMOUSIN SEPTENNIAL OSTENSIONS, Limousin, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
2023 – THE HARTUNG-BERGMAN FOUNDATION, Antibes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
2023 – SEASON 3 OF ‘EMILY IN PARIS’, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
2023 – 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 24 HOURS OF LE MANS, Le Mans, Pays de la Loire
2023 – 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF PICASSO’S DEATH, Paris, Île-de-France
2023 – 170TH ANNIVERSARY OF VAN GOGH’S BIRTH, Paris, Île-de-France
2023 – 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ALSACE WINE ROUTE, Grand Est
2023 – HAUTS-DE-FRANCE IS THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF GASTRONOMY, Hauts-de-France
2023 – VALLÉE DE LA GASTRONOMIE IS BACK, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Rhône Valley and Provence-Camargue
2023 – SUSTAINABLE COGNAC PRODUCTION BY REMY MARTIN, Cognac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
2023 – SUSTAINABLE SKIING, Serre Chevalier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
2023 – HOTEL LE GRAND MAZARIN 5*, Paris, Île-de-France
2023 – ESPACE 105 4* HOTEL AND URBAN SPACE, Rouen, Normandy
2023 – HOTEL CHÂTEAU LOUISE DE L
