Skift Take
Paris is following the positive tourism trend that the rest of Europe enjoyed last year, thanks in large part to business travel and companies like Airbnb. But with another terrorist-related shooting in France last weekend, it remains to be seen whether the city can continue to prove it's safe to visit.
Paris marked a record number of hotel stays in 2017, helped by business travel and international arrivals.
The City of Lights had a record number of overnight hotel stays (23.6 million, up 11.3 percent year-over-year) in 2017, according to data released this week by the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau. Non-hotel overnight stays, such as in alternative accommodations like Airbnb, accounted for 16.4 million overnight stays in Paris last year.
Paris is Airbnb's largest market, but stays at hostels and with friends and family are also included in the alternative accommodations data.
Business travel was more than half (50.8 percent) of all arrivals, and overnight business stays increased 8.2 percent from
