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Britons, Irish flocking to the French Riviera

Source: www.expatica.com. Posted on 13 January 2006.

Tourists from Britain and Ireland are flocking in ever greater numbers to the French Riviera, helping make the region the second-most visited in France after Paris, the area's chamber of commerce said Monday.

More than a million Britons stayed on France's stretch of Mediterranean coast in 2005, the body said.

That was a 9.6 percent rise over the previous year, it said, extrapolating from hotel check-ins, which require guests to fill out their nationality and which account for around half the estimated sojourns.

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