CTI Spotlight: Paris

Paris Q1 2026 total daily cost: $450.68

• Average daily hotel cost: $274.55
• Average daily taxi cost: $68.00
• Average daily dining cost: $108.13
• Total cost change from Q4 2025: -17.44%

Negotiation Game: Though the overall travel cost for Paris declined double digits quarter over quarter in Q1 2026, that's more indicative of how sharply costs rose in 2025, driven by a post-Olympic demand wave and the reopening of the Notre-Dame de Paris. December alone broke hotel performance records for the month, according to CoStar, with revenue per available room climbing 7.8 percent year over year to €285.13 ($334.82). Airport traffic at Orly and Charles de Gaulle hit approximately 107 million passengers in 2025, according to HVS, a 3.4 percent year-over-year gain on 2024's record 103.4 million passengers.

This year, the corporate travel segment will once more have to compete with strong visitor numbers and major events in a city where the hotel supply base has not kept pace with demand growth. That's on purpose, according to HVS. The city's historic built environment and tight planning rules have long kept speculative development in check and maintained the city's pricing power.

Paris closed out 2025 with approximately 1,790 hotels and around 97,000 rooms, and its pipeline as of May 2026 stood at 3,300 rooms across 27 projects scheduled to enter the market through 2030, according to HVS.

The Approach: The average Paris CTI hotel cost, which represents aggregated hotel rates booked by corporates in multiple tiers, was $274.55 in Q1 2026, down slightly year over year from $278.58.

Where the rates are climbing in Paris are in the luxury and upper-upscale tiers, according to CoStar, a trend seen in the rest of the world. CTI data for just the luxury and upper-upscale chainscales put the average hotel cost at $535.64 in Q1 2026, a massive 24 percent year-over-year increase from Q1 2025. 

The key to keeping total travel costs down will be encouraging business travelers to move down a hotel tier if they're used to staying in higher-end properties—or be prepared to pay more in the year ahead.

Keep in Mind: Rail travel within France is a practical and often cost-effective option for corporate travelers, but frequent strikes from the nation's rail workers have caused disruptions across SNCF's network. The union actions have been characterized by episodic walkouts lasting a few days rather than a full-on shutdown of the network. Nevertheless, the disruptions have been significant and look likely to continue until the country's four major rail unions are able to secure improvements in pay and working conditions. The strikes are announced in advance, so be sure to monitor regularly.

Additionally, the Entry/Exit System (EES), a digital border management system that records biometric data, went into effect in April 2026 across the 29 Schengen Area countries and has led to hours-long wait times at border control. Prepare travelers accordingly. 

What's Happening in Paris?

Transient corporate demand has fully recovered in Paris. Meetings and events, however, have been slower to return. The city hosted 124 internationally ranked association meetings in 2024, according to the International Congress and Convention Association, down from the 237 it welcomed in 2019. The 2024 Paris Olympics is one contributor for the tepid recovery, as event planners deferred Paris dates around the Olympic period.

HVS projects a rebound in conventions and large-scale corporate gatherings to to build through 2026 and 2027. Several major music artists have announced summer tour dates in the City of Lights, including Bad Bunny, Bruno Mars and BTS. Paris will also host the ESports World Cup between early July and late August.

Several hotels have opened—or re-opened—their doors in Paris in recent years, including the more than 750 room Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center which welcomed guests again in July 2024 following a multi-year renovation. The 87-room NH Collection Paris Ponthieu Champs-Élysées debuted last year near the Golden Triangle after a full renovation in 2025 of the more than 110-year old property. The Banke Opéra Paris will open as part of the Radisson Collection in the third quarter of this year following upgrades to the 90-room property.

Lifestyle concepts dominate planned 2027 and 2028 hotel openings, including the 128-room Radisson Blu Triangle Hotel; the 124-room Maybourne Saint Germain; the 197-room Oh Baby Saint-Ouen; and the 153-room Motto by Hilton Paris La Villette.