The daily change in occupancy rates at French hotels at the beginning of April shoes a sharp drop by -27.0 points for the night of April 02 to 03, due at once to Easter Monday and the first day strikes announced conjointly by SNCF and Air France. Occupancy rates were then down -6.4 points for the night of April 03 to 04, corresponding to the second consecutive day of strike by SNCF. 

During these two days, the drop in occupancy led to a -19.5% drop in the RevPAR, while the average daily rate remained stable. This effect could be observed once again with the next series of SNCF strikes, of the nights of April 07 to 08 and April 08 to 09. However these weekend dates resulted in a much weaker drop in occupancy with a decrease in occupancy rate by -0.1 and -0.3 points respectively. During round three of SNCF strikes, the night of April 12 to 13 resisted with +3.9 point growth but dove down by -12.2 points from April 13 to 14. By comparison, since the beginning of the year 2018 the occupancy rate has grown by +2.0 points on average, outside periods during strikes. the missed earnings are thus significant. Moreover, the drop on Saturday, April 14 is noteworthy, but especially related to the date of Easter, which took place during that weekend in 2017; this drop may thus looked at with respect to the increases earlier in the month (+20.5 points April 1).

Overall, on the three periods of SNCF strikes, the drop observed is by -7.0 points in occupancy rate versus an average of +2 points growth since the beginning of the year.

The impact impact observed is thus significant, albeit nuanced since, inversely, increases have been observed on the nights prior to the SNCF strikes, for example +9.2 points...