Long and sunny bank holiday weekend: all the elements are there to ensure that tourism professionals have a smile in Calvados. There are people enjoying the Côte Fleurie and Cabourg confirms Louise Bougault, the director of the tourist office of this seaside town.
This extended holiday weekend of May 8 combined with Ascension Thursday is full of activity in Calvados, especially as the sun is out. On the flowery coast, in Cabourg, tourists are there, confirms the director of the tourist office, Louise Bougault.
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“It’s a busy weekend and we’re lucky.” Louise Bougault sets the scene and to make matters worse, it’s sunny. Not a single downside for Cabourg’s tourism professionals, most of whom are fully booked. The last and rare availability leaves at the last minute explains the director of the Cabourg tourist office. Tourists mainly from the Rouen region and the Paris region, “quite a few second homes but also passing through”. The closure of the A13 motorway since mid-April between Paris and Normandy has not dissuaded Ile-de-France residents from spending a weekend on the Normandy coast, even if it has mainly lengthened their travel times.
Passing of the Olympic flame on May 30 in Cabourg…
The season is just beginning and in Calvados but it promises to be rich. The program for the coming weeks is particularly busy this year with already on May 30, the passage of the Olympic flame in Calvados. Cabourg is on its way, one of the seven stages. “It’s an event that is well established and has been in place for several months already since it will correspond to a large turnout. Many people have been talking about it and asking us for it since the beginning of the year,” notes the director. from the tourist office which expects a high attendance that day, with an audience who will come specifically for the event.
…with the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of D-Day!
And even if most of the commemorations and events will focus on the mother-of-pearl coast on June 6, 2024, Cabourg can also do well.There is still a little space left, but we already have quite a few people who have managed to rent or have rooms reserved for this event“. According to Louise Bougault the public is also different with rather “people who wish to be outside the area which will be a little blocked by the official commemorations“.** And for this Cabourg is very well positioned*: “more or less between the Côte Fleurie, even if we are on it and the Côte de Nacre, so it allows people to reach out to be able to visit all around”.*
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