Tourism in France

With 1.1 billion people in 2013, tourism has experienced since World War II, an exceptional expansion worldwide. In France, its importance and the impact it can have on other sectors, he participated in the economic performance of the country and is part of the social behavior of the French, for whom the holidays is a special time, which they are attached since the creation of paid leave in 1936. In ". Tourism geographical Lectures", No. 8094 of photographic revueDocumentation (The French Documentation, July-August 2013), Philippe Duhamel says that "tourism growth follows ... two logic: first international mobility, advanced tip of the iceberg, whose growth is exponential; secondly, a much more recent worldwide, which also has a very strong domestic growth or national mobility. International mobility accounted for 50 million tourists in 1950; they relate to one billion tourists in 2012, an average interannual growth of 15 million people. The increase was steady between 1950 and 1980, with a slight bend around the first oil shock and a fairly clear stabilization time of the second, before experiencing a new phase of growth to sharper downturn caused by the aTVttacks of September 11 2001, followed by the outbreak of Severe acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) part of Asia in 2003. Since then, the international tourism growth is following logical contrast between strong annual increases and few setbacks (...) Everything leads us to believe that almost nothing can stop the development of tourism. Economic crisis, natural and health disasters, wars or terrorist acts produce downtime that can last many years across a region or a country, but are insensitive to the continental or global scale. The most interesting is the speed with which human societies once again become tourist peace, stability or resolution of the crisis established ".