Soaring hotel prices, crackdown on illegal renting to hit Paris 2024 experience
Visitors heading to Paris for next year's Olympics face major accommodation problems amid soaring hotel prices and a crackdown on rentals of tourist apartments.
A report by the Paris tourism office showed that hotel prices would rise by a whopping 314% between the 2023 and 2024 summers.
"We want popular Games, and it can't be popular Games at 700 euros a night," Frederic Hocquard, Paris's deputy mayor for tourism and night life, told Reuters on Monday.
The report also hit out at the Paris hotels for waiting too long to open their booking platforms for the July 26 - Aug. 11 Games.
"Some 66% of the hotels are still not available for booking for the period of the Olympics," the report said.
According to the Paris Tourism office, a hotel night in the Paris region was 169 euros in July 2023, and it is expected to soar up to 699 euros in July 2024.
"The rise is 366% for the two-star hotels and 475% for the three-star hotels," it said.
