A French web site has developed a ‘tourism rating’ for French cities and cities to assist display the impression of tourism, and permit guests to keep away from locations which can be already affected by too many vacationers.
The topic of ‘over-tourism’ has been a rising concern in a lot of Europe’s hottest vacation locations.
In 2024, France was ranked because the world’s prime vacationer vacation spot, bringing in over 100 million guests.
However, growing tourism ranges have additionally left some elements of France overwhelmed. In response, some cities have launched property rental restrictions, whereas others have began imposing customer quotas or demanding pre-booking from guests at common areas.
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Recently, alongside the organisation Collectif National des Habitants Permanents, which maps Airbnb listings in France, the web site Ville de Rêve put collectively a research on over-tourism.
They outline ‘over-tourism’ as “the saturation of an space with vacationers, the place residents endure unfavourable penalties on their life-style and well-being, and the place the pure surroundings is degraded.”
The ‘Touriscore’
Using open-source information, the web site printed an interactive map, in addition to a ‘Touriscore’, which is a rating for cities and cities primarily based on their degree of over-tourism. You can discover it right here.
The rating makes use of the identical format as France’s Nutri-Score label, which denotes the healthiness of meals from A (glorious) to E (very poor).
Using two lists: one for smaller cities and cities with 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitants and one other for locations with greater than 50,000 inhabitants.
Each location was scored primarily based on 4 standards, after which given a median ‘Touriscore’.
The first criterion is the proportion of vacationer lodging to obtainable housing for residents within the metropolis centre.
The second appears to be like at ‘housing predation’, that means the share of small flats within the metropolis centre just lately listed on Airbnb versus the variety of actual property transactions for a similar kind of property.
Basically, that is meant to point out the variety of flats or homes which can be transformed into vacationer lodging and faraway from the residential market.
The third appears to be like on the ‘presence {of professional} landlords’. This determine is decided by the share of listings printed by somebody who manages not less than three totally different properties on Airbnb.
The research famous that in 35 French cities with greater than 50,000 inhabitants, skilled landlords represented over 40 p.c of all landlords.
And lastly, the fourth criterion focuses on the variety of bars and eating places per sq. kilometre within the metropolis centre, in an effort to decide if these kind of institutions are overly represented within the metropolis centre (that means there could be better noise, site visitors, and different nuisances).
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Notably, the rating doesn’t take a couple of issues under consideration, corresponding to occasions, monuments or pure websites value visiting within the location. It additionally doesn’t have a look at pure tourism numbers, displaying how many individuals go there per 12 months, nor does it think about facets like security and crime.
However, the record is a useful consideration – both for individuals who favor to take holidays in areas with out too many vacationers, or for these trying to keep away from shopping for property in a really touristy space.
How did French cities carry out?
In complete, 16 bigger French cities and 47 smaller cities and cities ended up within the ‘A’ class. On the opposite hand, eight bigger cities and 6 smaller cities/ cities scored an ‘E’.
Screenshot of the Touriscore map, credit score; Ville de RêveThe bigger cities with probably the most ‘over-tourism’ primarily based on the rating have been;
Cannes – The glitzy Riviera resort has greater than 30 p.c of housing within the metropolis centre listed on Airbnb. Over half of Airbnb listings within the metropolis centre are run by ‘skilled landlords’.
Nice – Airbnb listings make up nearly a fifth of housing within the metropolis centre and half of Airbnb listings are run by ‘skilled landlords’ within the Riviera metropolis.
Annecy – The fairly lakeside Alpine city has nearly 1 / 4 of listings in central Annecy on Airbnbs, and over half of the latest property transactions correspond to latest Airbnb listings.
Antibes – Back to the Riviera, in Antibes nearly six out of each 10 latest property transactions correspond to new Airbnb listings.
Paris – While Airbnb solely accounts for 13 p.c of housing within the metropolis centre, 77 p.c of latest property transactions within the French capital correspond to latest Airbnb listings.
Avignon – Airbnb listings make up nearly a fifth of housing within the centre of the historic southern French city
Aix-en-Provence – Over a 3rd of latest property transactions correspond to latest Airbnb listings.
Marseille – France’s second metropolis has a ‘excessive presence’ (729 per sq. km) of bars and eating places within the metropolis centre.
The finest (A) bigger cities have been;
- Mérignac
- Saint-Maur-des-Fossés
- Antony
- Chelles
- Sartrouville
- Drancy
- Pessac
- Noisy-le-Grand
- Bondy
- Sevran
- Champigny-sur-Marne
- Clamart
- Le Blanc-Mesnil
- Cergy
- Colombes
- Épinay-sur-Seine
What else can you utilize Ville de Rêve for?
The web site additionally affords useful information for individuals trying to discover totally different elements of France, with the intention of visiting or maybe transferring there.
It affords interactive maps of various French cities and cities, displaying price of residing to accessibility to move connections, to local weather predictions in 2050.
