
From the annual analysis conducted by MKG Hospitality, on 1st January 2012, France counts less than 18,500 classified hotels for a total number of less than 648,000 rooms. This last figure sees a net loss of 6,400 hotel rooms.The constant shrinkage of the French hotel supply is mainly due to the decrease within the Economy independent-hotel category (1* and 2*). In this category alone, there are 12,300 fewer rooms than last year. The new supply coming mostly from hotel chains is not sufficient to compensate the losses. It is getting increasingly difficult to launch new construction projects and to compete with long-stay residences.
While restructuring the hotel supply appears to be necessary to meet the needs of a hotel supply that has been revived by new concepts and improved quality, the void left behind as obsolete hotels or hotels that are out of the market disappear is no longer successfully being filled by a new supply...
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