73% of rooms filled: Île-de-France leads France for hotel occupancy, Occitanie comes last

In 2025, hotels in Île-de-France filled 72.9% of their rooms, more than ten points above the French average. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (63.1%) and Corsica (62.0%) complete the podium, while Occitanie brings up the rear at 54.6%. A La Revue des Hôtels calculation based on official INSEE series.

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1. Île-de-France: 72.9% and a third of all nights
2. Provence and Corsica at 63.1% and 62.0%
3. Occitanie ranks 13th despite 15.6 million nights
4. Four-star hotels fill up better than five-stars
5. Overseas, Réunion beats the national average
6. Our method: twelve months added together
7. What these rates mean when you book

Île-de-France: 72.9% and a third of all nights

With 43.7 million rooms occupied out of 60.0 million available, Île-de-France fills nearly three rooms in four. It gains 2.1 points on 2024, the year of the Paris Games, and its overnight stays rise by 7.1% to 72.8 million, a third of all hotel nights in the country.

It is also the most international region: 58.4% of its nights are spent by guests who do not live in France, against a national average of 37.9%. Yet on a European scale, France ranks only fourth for hotel nights spent by foreign tourists.

How to read it: cumulative rate from January to December 2025, change in percentage points on 2024, nights in millions (m), share of nights spent by non-resident guests.

Provence and Corsica at 63.1% and 62.0%

Behind the capital region, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur fills 63.1% of its rooms (+1.1 points), with 24.8 million nights, the second-largest volume in mainland France, 38.5% of them from foreign guests. Corsica follows at 62.0% (+1.2 points) with 3.3 million nights: many of its hotels close out of season, and the rate only covers rooms actually on offer.

Just off the podium, the gap comes down to a tenth of a point. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (59.3%) and Grand Est (59.2%) are almost level, ahead of Brittany (58.2%) and Hauts-de-France (57.7%). Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (-0.3 points) and Pays de la Loire (-0.8 points) are the only two regions in decline.

Occitanie ranks 13th despite 15.6 million nights

Occitanie closes the ranking at 54.6%, up 0.3 points. That position says nothing about its weight: with 18.2 million rooms on offer over the year, it has the fourth-largest hotel capacity in mainland France, and its 15.6 million nights put it fifth by volume. Centre-Val de Loire (55.3%), Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (55.6%) and Normandy (55.7%) sit just above it.

Pays de la Loire (56.5%) combines the steepest fall with the lowest share of foreign guests, 12.4% of nights. Also worth reading: the regions investing most in hotels.

Four-star hotels fill up better than five-stars

INSEE also publishes the rate by category for France as a whole: four-star hotels fill 68.1% of their rooms, slightly more than five-stars (66.8%). Occupancy rises with the rating up to four stars, from 56.5% for a one-star to 63.4% for a three-star, while unrated hotels top out at 47.6%.

Chain hotels outperform independents, 64.4% against 60.2%.

Overseas, Réunion beats the national average

Réunion fills 63.5% of its rooms, above the national average, with 1.6 million nights (+5.0%). INSEE rounds it to 63%, stable. Martinique (60.4%) and Guadeloupe (59.2%) follow, but their nights fall by 6.4% and 9.5%. French Guiana gains 1.7 points, to 53.6%. Mayotte has no calculable rate: its occupied rooms are not published.

Our method: twelve months added together

This ranking is a La Revue des Hôtels calculation. INSEE publishes monthly series for each region, but no ready-made annual regional table. For each region, we added up the rooms occupied over the twelve months of 2025, then divided by the total number of rooms on offer. This is the definition INSEE uses.

Averaging the twelve monthly rates would distort the picture for seasonal regions. In Corsica, it would give 51.6% instead of 62.0%: a winter month, when some hotels are closed, would count as much as a summer month with far more rooms on offer. The cumulative method gives each month its true weight, that of the rooms actually open.

We cross-checked our results against published figures: 62.3% for France as a whole (INSEE, 62.25% in our calculation), 55.7% for Normandy (regional tourist board), 55.6% for Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (Jura departmental tourist board) and 63% for Réunion (INSEE). All match, give or take rounding. December 2025 was still provisional on 24 October 2026, so a gap of a tenth of a point remains possible. Scope: rated and unrated hotels, excluding tourist residences, campsites and private rentals.

What these rates mean when you book

In Île-de-France, nearly three rooms in four are occupied on average across the year: if you have a particular hotel in mind, booking early remains the rule. Our analysis of summer 2026 details occupancy over the season.

In Corsica and other seasonal regions, only open rooms count towards the annual rate. Out of season, check the hotel’s opening dates before planning your stay.

Finally, a low rate does not make a hotel cheap: occupancy says nothing about price. At the bottom of the ranking, as with independents (60.2%), there are more free rooms, and so more choice for a last-minute getaway.

Sources (accessed 24 October 2026)

• INSEE, monthly hotel occupancy survey, regional series of occupied and available rooms (BDM database), for example the Île-de-France series
• INSEE, Hotel stock and occupancy, 2025 annual data, 23 July 2026 (French average, rate by star rating, chains and independents)
• Normandy regional tourist board, hotel occupancy in 2025 (INSEE data)
• Jura departmental tourist board, hotel occupancy statistics, 2025 (INSEE data)
• INSEE, regional publication on hotel occupancy in Réunion in 2025