Angers Hotels

Capital of Anjou and gateway to the Loire valley, Angers is distinguished as much for the richness of its heritage as for its cultural and economic dynamism.

16th largest town in France, with 156,000 inhabitants within an urban area of 260,000 inhabitants, Angers is above all a youthful town with more than 30,000 students.

Thus, if the towers of the imposing castle fortress watch peacefully over the heights of the town, in the streets, museums, gardens, shops, gastronomic restaurants, art festivals and student life give colour to the famous Angevin softness".

Angers is located equidistant from Paris (2h30 by motorway and 1h30 by high-speed train) and from the Atlantic Ocean. With more than 300 km of navigable waterways and 250km of footpaths for rambling, it provides a range of activities for its inhabitants and its guests.

• 400 000 visitors annually 110 000 requests for information annually to the Tourist Office 1 800 hotel bedrooms
  7 camp sites
  7 reception centres
  30 gîtes, bed & breakfasts and furnished rooms Large-scale business tourism (nearly 40,000 congress visit days at the Angers Congress Centre) and more than 400,000 visitors annually to the Exhibition Park. 26% of the tourists essentially European with the British (35%) in front of the Americans (15%), the Italians and the Germans.
• A real economic weight
  • 3,200 jobs (annual growth rate 5% for private sector salaried employment) 3rd industrial career path of the Angevin urban area after IT and the automobile industry 500,000 beds occupied annually
  • 150 million of Euros of tourist spending annually.
  
  

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