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NICE IN FIGURES
• 5th largest French city
• 345 892 inhabitants
• 7 192 hectares
• 7 500 m of beaches
• 300 ha of green areas
• 150 ornamental lakes and fountains
NICE IN FIGURES
• 5th largest French city
• 345 892 inhabitants
• 7 192 hectares
• 7 500 m of beaches
• 300 ha of green areas
• 150 ornamental lakes and fountains
KEY FIGURES FOR TOURISM
• 1st largest centre for tourism in France, after Paris
4 million visitors per year
• 1st airport in France after Paris, with 10 million passengers a year, connecting to 80 destinations in 28 countries
• Top cruising port in France, 350 000 passengers used the Port of Nice-Villefranche in 2004 including 55.116 cruise passengers for Nice alone ;
• 1st Congress and Convention City in France after Paris, with Acropolis voted several times Best Convention Centre in Europe; in 1999, 112.000 delegates attended professional events and an overall total of 495.000 to all events.
• 19 museums and galleries (the largest number after Paris)
• 1st largest hotel facilities in France after Paris, making up a third of the total hotel capacity of the French Riviera, with 190 hotels and some 10.000 rooms:
- 2 hotels ****L (326 rooms)
-22 hotels **** (2 994 rooms)
- 65 hotels *** (3 647 rooms)
- 68 hotels ** (2 471 rooms)
- 24 hotels * (750 rooms)
THE RIVIERA IN FIGURES
The area covered by the Riviera - Côte d'Azur corresponds to the Alpes-Maritimes "département" and includes the Principality of Monaco. Its permanent population is over one million inhabitants, 12% of which hold foreign nationality.The following figures concern the number of tourists to the region with the exception of the number of stays by night and cruise passenger stopovers.
• 10 million tourists;
• 70 million night stays;
• Overseas clientele of 58 %
• Tourist expenditure - 4 billion Euros;
• 64 000 jobs linked to tourism, 41% of total employment ;
• 1 in 3 stays in Nice;
• 1 in 2 stays in a hotel;
• o 1 in 5 stays for business reasons;
• 350 000 conference delegates;
• 300 000 cruise passengers
• 3 million entrances to museums and monuments
• Over 500 000 visitors to the “Haut Pays”;
• 97 % of visitors are satisfied with their stay
Source: CRT Riviera Côte d'Azur -Observatoire du Tourisme, service recherche