Daily occupancy at hotels in Paris fell 24 percentage points on average in the week after the attacks claimed by Islamic State militants, according to figures given by the Office du Tourisme et des Congres de Paris yesterday.
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The three biggest USA airlines have said they are continuing to operate normal schedules between the US and Paris. The group did not have numbers on travel cancellations.
“Many ASTA members tell us that travelers really are not as concerned as you would think, and they are receiving little to no phone calls or concerned requests for more information”, Ms Michels said in an email. Christian Navet, president of the Paris-Ile de France section of French hotel federation (UMIH), said he saw “no signs of recovery”.
Shares across the travel sector dropped, with falls compounded as carriers British Airways and easyJet both suspended flights to Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt in the wake of the Russian passenger plane crash, which killed 224 people last month and may have been caused by a bomb.
In France, hotel chain Accor slipped by nearly 4pc while Air France fell 2.5pc. Air France was down 3.9 per cent and easyjet down 3.2 per cent. On Wall Street, United Continental Holdings Inc was down 3.2 per cent at $56.66, Delta Air Lines Inc was down 3 per cent at $47.25 and American Airlines was down 2.1 per cent at $41.41.
The number of new bookings remains 27% down, compared with the same dates past year. Christmas bookings from the U.S.to Paris had been running ahead of 2014 levels until the attacks but fell slightly below last year’s pace after November 13, the company reported.
In recent days, the level of cancellations had stabilised at about the same level as previous year as airlines stopped offering free rebooking, it added.
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Forward Data CEO Olivier Jager said in an interview that the company reviewed bookings data that it buys from ticket information distribution systems used by 200,000 travel agencies.
