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Tourist Attractions
Dordogne
While the number of visitors to rural holiday destinations held up well once the first confinement was lifted, the picture for the main tourist attractions was not so rosy. Semitour, the company that manages sites such as Lascaux 4, Cloître de Cadouin and the Château de Biron Château recently announced a loss de Biron of nearly forty per cent of its turnover compared to the previous year, some 3.8 million euros. The majority of the company’s workers have been put on chômage partiel, similar to furlough, while they wait to see if events over the Christmas period can be held to bring in visitors.
Going Online
Dordogne’s Conseil Départemental has relaunched their website, making local information more accessible and adding a number of new videos promoting the area. Explore it at www.dordogne.fr. At the same time, Dordogne is the first département nationally to offer all administrative processes online at demarches.dordogne.fr. Sarlat mairie have stepped in to help local businesses sell online during the lockdowns with a new site jeparticipe.sarlat.fr where you can arrange to click and collect as well as seeing which businesses are open. Other municipalities like Brantôme, Saint-Cyprien and Nontron have information on Facebook pages, while Bergerac has an interactive map on bergerac.fr.
Fishing Destination
A huge stocking operation took place in November as part of Dordogne’s commitment to leisure fishing and tourism. In total, 12.5 tonnes of fish were released into the lakes at Rouffiac, La Jemaye, Saint-Estèphe, Gurçon and Miallet. Roach, pike, bass, perch, tench and trout were among the species added. With more than 4,000km of waterways and several lakes ranging in size from 20 to 100 hectares, the aim is to make the département a fishing destination with specialist accommodation, signposted routes and all the necessary equipment easily available. The new fly-fishing lake at Saint-Estèphe has already proved popular and it is hoped that the wide mix of fishing available across Dordogne will appeal to families and groups. As well as extending the traditional holiday periods, local accommodation can benefit from additional designations, opening up new markets and promotional budgets. Communication plans targeting the French market are already underway, so let’s hope that the English-language plans are not far behind!
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