The number of overnight stays rose 3.9 percent in the last three months of 2016 compared with the same period in 2015, reaching 56.3 million, Insee said. Friday's suspected terror attack on a group of soldiers on patrol outside the Louvre museum could endanger that recovery. The assault outside the world's busiest museum revived fears of violence in France which suffered a string of attacks that killed 238 people between January 2015 and July 2016. The turnaround was particularly noteworthy in luxury hotels, where overnight stays shot up 9.0 percent year-on-year, Insee said. Some 85 million foreign tourists visited France in 2015.

Source: The Local February 07, 2017 16:30 UTC