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What will the end of year holidays look like? How to organize, plan or not travel for the holidays? Travel agencies have been taken by storm with numerous appeals. If the plane is shunned, train tickets have jumped exponentially.
All schuss towards the Christmas holidays for the ski resorts which started to reopen this weekend. To slide on the slopes, compulsory sanitary pass and mask in the ski lifts. Conditions rather accepted in this resort in the Pyrenees. After a catastrophic 2020-2021 season at altitude, reservations are on the rise, by 80% for example at Alpe d’Huez (Isère). And the snow is also present this year. What to relieve a little the professionals of the mountain, concerned by the new wave.
The emergence of the Omicron variant also complicates the travel plans of other French people who prefer the sun on the other side of the world. Currently, it is impossible to travel to Morocco or Israel. As in Japan and southern Africa, in a total of ten countries. Border closures which push some French people to play the card of proximity for their holidays. Big winners of the end of the year, the lodgings. Two weeks before the Christmas holidays, the Gîtes de France are taken by storm: 80% are already reserved.
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