From two-hour queues at the Eiffel Tower in Paris to Athens capping visitors to the overcrowded Acropolis, the glut of tourists returning to Europe this summer has been difficult to miss.
从巴黎埃菲尔铁塔(Eiffel Tower)前两个小时的长队，到雅典卫城(Acropolis)人满为患，今年夏天返回欧洲的游客数量之多很难被忽视。
Despite a spike in prices, flight bookings to northern Europe from June to August were up 25 per cent against a year earlier, according to data aggregator ForwardKeys, and up 13 per cent to southern Europe.
数据聚合公司ForwardKeys的数据显示，尽管机票价格飙升，但今年6月至8月飞往北欧的机票预订量同比增长25%，飞往南欧的机票预订量同比增长13%。
Hotel occupancy across the continent in July was just 4 per cent below pre-pandemic levels for the same month in 2019, according to industry data provider STR, defying a surge in average daily room rates in hotspots such as Paris, where they were 79 per cent higher in July this year than in 2019.
行业数据提供商STR的数据显示，整个欧洲大陆7月份的酒店入住率仅比大流行前的2019年同期水平低4%，这与巴黎等热点城市日均房价的飙升背道而驰，今年7月份巴黎的日均房价比2019年同期高出79%。
The region’s tourism industry has enjoyed its best summer season since before the pandemic as an increase in American visitors helped offset the impact of extreme heat and stubborn inflation.
由于美国游客的增加帮助抵消了极端高温和顽固通货膨胀的影响，该地区的旅游业迎来了自疫情爆发前以来最好的夏季。
France’s tourism minister Olivia Grégoire predicted last week that the world’s most visited country would benefit from a record €64bn-€67bn windfall from international tourism this year following a “very good” summer season.
法国旅游部长奥利维亚•格莱姆戈瓦尔(Olivia gracimgoire)上周预测，在经历了“非常好的”夏季旅游旺季后，今年法国将从国际旅游业中获得创纪录的640亿至670亿欧元的意外收入。
Spain welcomed 47.6mn overseas visitors in the seven months to the end of July, according to national statistics bureau INE, 21 per cent ahead of the same period last year and just 0.8 per cent below 2019 levels.
西班牙国家统计局(INE)的数据显示，在截至7月底的7个月里，西班牙接待了4760万海外游客，比去年同期增长21%，仅比2019年水平低0.8%。