Spectators who will travel to Paris to attend the Olympic Games this summer must find temporary accommodation, and some are currently looking for good deals on online platforms. The general director of Airbnb France and Belgium gives, in the program “La France Boug”, the average price of a rental in Île-de-France.
D-Day is approaching: the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will kick off on July 26, with the opening ceremony on the Seine. Some events will also start a few days before, and for future spectators who do not live in Ile-de-France, for some of them, the time has now come to look for a hotel room or accommodation. ‘a one-off rental.
According to the newspaper The Parisian
, the average price of a night in the capital, all offers combined, is 886 euros, or 13% less than a month ago. For many, therefore, research is synonymous with the quest for good deals, and this can be done through online platforms.
2,000 euros in revenue generated by hosts during the Games
The general director of Airbnb in France and Belgium, Clément Eulry, returns to the show France is moving
on the different prices charged in the Paris region. “The prices displayed (today) are those which have not been reserved, that is to say that the average price is much lower than that,” he explains on Europe 1. According to him, “ an average guest in Île-de-France represents 2,000 euros of income generated during the Olympic Games, therefore 200 euros per night on average for around ten nights.
The general director justifies this difference with the price displayed by the study of Parisian by the diversity of the offer. “It ranges from studios in the suburbs to multi-room apartments on the Seine. For each need, depending on the size of the family, the group, depending on accessibility needs, there is an answer on the Airbnb platform” , promises the leader.
43 billion euros of economic impact generated
According to the general director of Airbnb in France and Belgium, the platform generates 43 billion euros of economic impact each year, or “366,000 jobs created or supported”. “We work with many territories, communities, to strengthen the attractiveness of their destination,” underlines Clément Eulry.
