Pierre Girard, Insee

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Essential for France, Tourism is driven by both national and international customers. This activity came to a halt during the first lockdown in March 2020, then fluctuated sharply due to travel’s restrictions. For the tourism sector, as for others, official statistics have evolved and enriched their tools to monitor activity during this period. Taxes and employee data were used to assess the recovery of activity in establishments in spring 2020. However, in order to monitor tourist activity as closely as possible, Insee is now working on privately held data – PHD – such as credit card payments, comments on platforms for booking overnight stays, or even Internet searches.… [LIRE L'ARTICLE]