The arrangement of hotels, restaurants and points of sale market - France

The hotel interior design market in France refers to the economic activity involved in "arranging volumes and decorative elements in relation to one another" in hotel establishments . The agenceur d'intérieur is qualified to take charge of the design, coordination, manufacture, fitting and installation of a new space. The interior designer's trade is unique in that it responds to "on-demand" as well as "made-to-measure" requests. Working in partnership with the architect who designs the space and its layout, the interior designer provides technical solutions, fine-tunes the integration of lighting and fluids, suggests materials, proposes surface finishes and tests finishes. The interior designer brings together a wide range of different skills at every stage of a project: throughout the project, a fitter evolves and can be a project manager, a design office technician, a site supervisor, a manufacturing team, as well as an assembler and installer. All these professions can be brought in-house, or they can be outsourced .One of the market's growth drivers is the development of training in the trade: every year in France, an average of 500 people are trained in the shopfitting industry, which is still relatively low compared to market demand. Interior design companies are generally SMEs with 20-25 employees, and over the past 10 years, the sector has evolved considerably. Professionals are increasingly integrating new technologies such as 3D design, decision-support tools and digitization of production. On average, 40,000 interior design operations are carried out in France every year, covering leisure areas, retail outlets, offices, hospitals, public spaces, hotels, restaurants and even private homes. What's more, by 2023, the French furnishings market will be worth almost 21 billion euros, a market heavily impacted by rising raw material and energy prices in France.