“A resurgence of German customers”: tourism in Normandy benefits from the surge in fuel prices | TF1 Info

• Consequence of the surge in fuel prices: the French are reviewing their vacation plans.
• The objective is therefore to go less far, for less money, in particular with cheap accommodation.
• Campsites could be the big winners with a boom in reservations this Easter weekend.

A 60% occupancy for this Easter weekend 2026. In a Normandy campsite located in Merville-Franceville-Plage (Calvados), reservations jumped by 37% this year. Their foreign customers preferred to reduce the number of kilometers.

“This Easter weekend, we are seeing an increase in German customers who were perhaps used to going a little further away, to Brittany, or to ÃŽle-de-Ré, because it is less far I think. [Ce qui peut être dû] to the impact of fuel, because I think that fuel is a little more expensive here at the moment than with them“, explains Guillaume Lemarchand, president of the Seasanova camping group, to LCI.

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According to the PAP platform, Normandy recorded a 12% increase in reservations for its spring holidays. Conversely, the Alpes-Maritimes show a drop of 20%. “I would have liked to go to the south of France for a short Easter weekend, but given the situation, no. The price of a full tank now hurts“, confides a woman at the microphone of LCI.

“On a slightly longer vacation, we will think about optimizing our travel depending on the price of fuel obviously.“, adds Pascal, who for his part has not changed his destination. Note that more than one in two French people have not booked their summer vacation. Fuel prices will be determining in the choice of destinations.