Growth is back: leisure, travel, fast food or decoration, some sectors are aware of a real boom after months of crisis related to the Cvid-19 epidemic.
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After a year of containment in their small two-piece Parisian, punctuated by tens and dozens of hours of videoconferencing meetings, Manon and Edouard, the thirties both, come out of their summer 2021. Since June, No less than nine weekends have been devoted to marriages of their friends or girls’ burials. Events that had been postponed one to twice during the pandemic and who were finally able to stand. “We can no longer”, sigh manon, “and in addition it cost us an arm, between the train tickets, the hotel nights, the gifts, our various outfits … This year, we will offer nothing at Christmas! “But what seems a tanned for the young couple appears as a real resurrection for a sector – the event – victimized by the COVID-19, returned with an unexpected vigor.
Finding “in presential”, meet, talk to each other: in all sectors, the recovery seems to rhyme above all with reunion. The 2021 edition of the Sirha, the large agribusiness show in Lyon refotted: 2,000 exhibitors, not far from 150,000 visitors hurry in the Eurexpo aisles. In Chantilly (Oise), this weekend, the atmosphere will be more chic for the days of the plants, canceled in 2020, “but we expect to fill up”, assures Nathalie Cassagnes, director of the agency public life , who works on the event. “People want to see each other.” What to feed the economic machine: production in France should globally find at the end of the year its pre-crisis level, according to INSEE’s forecasts ,
“Everyone wants to meet again!”: It is also the conviction of Victor Cheau, the CEO and co-founder of Comet, a coworking space located in the 16 e Parisian arrondissement, near Business districts, and specialized in business meetings. On the month of September alone, no less than 1,400 seminars, brainstorming and other management committees were held at its premises, ten times more than in June, and double the CVIV-19. “Many companies have seen the disengagement of the teams, an increase in turnover and express the need to recreate a group dynamic,” he describes. And the “Afterwork” explode: “We had a hundred in September against a dozen monthly average in 2019.”
The return of the plugs
The desire to return to see his friends, colleagues, customers or suppliers handed over the French in their car, with immediate effect on traffic jams. Since mid-September, TomTom has noted a quarter of more traffic in Paris compared to the same weeks of 2019, with peaks on weekends. But the return of the plugs would be a good sign, angle Olivier Chopin, hotelier in Bordeaux, oddly delighted to be touch-touch on the ring road in the morning: “This is the most striking element: we spent eighteen months to go bosse without anyone on the road. And since September, traffic jams are spread more and more – just like my occupancy rate. “Because more it bits on the road, the more crookon The reception of its eight hotels in the Bordeaux region, he found.
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