HOSPITALITY AND FOOD SERVICE Companies in France
Approximately 1,307,452 real businesses classified under Accommodation and Food Service Activities in France, with officer, shareholder and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Approximately 1,307,452 real businesses operate in the Accommodation and Food Service Activities sector across France. The hotel's name on the sign and the company that owns the building are usually not the same entity — and neither of those is necessarily the one running day-to-day operations. Hospitality routinely separates the property owner from the brand licensor from the operating manager, across hotels, resorts, restaurants, and catering. Verifying who owns a given hotel means picking which of those three questions you are actually asking.
80 companies in this sector are indexed on Zavia so far, part of a continually growing dataset.
Beneficial-ownership and registration rules for Accommodation and Food Service Activities companies in France follow the same national framework as every other sector there.
Full France beneficial ownership overviewTop Accommodation and Food Service Activities Companies in France
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts for SIC Code I in France, as of the last reconciliation.
Section I is 4% of the France register by entity count and its 10th largest sector — see all sectors.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you
Accommodation and Food Service is dominated by small, single-site entities in France, and a meaningful share of what defines a venue’s legal ability to operate sits outside the company register. Serving alcohol requires one of several distinct licences — a Licence III for beer, wine, and other fermented drinks, or a Licence IV for the full range including spirits — obtained separately from company formation and tied to a permit d’exploitation, a 10-year qualification earned through mandatory training.
Hotels add a second, voluntary layer: the 1-to-5-star classification run by Atout France, France’s tourism-development agency, assessed against a published set of facility and service criteria. Neither the alcohol licence nor the star rating is visible in a standard company filing, so verifying what an accommodation or food-service venue is actually authorised to do — serve spirits, advertise as a 4-star hotel — means checking those separate registers, not just confirming the company exists.
France Accommodation and Food Service Activities, by the register
Charts render from live counts. Modules are suppressed where coverage is too thin to be meaningful.
Entities by sub-sector
SIC division level, live from official registries.
Active vs. inactive
Section I entities currently on the register as active, vs. struck off or dormant.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file, Section I, France. 26,436 entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Who uses France accommodation and food service activities ownership data
The three checks this sector's data is most often run for.
Alcohol-licence verification
Serving alcohol in France requires a specific licence — a Licence III for beer, wine and similar, or a Licence IV for all spirits — plus a 10-year permit d’exploitation showing the operator completed mandatory training; a food or accommodation venue can be a validly registered company and still not be authorised to serve what it advertises.
Hotel classification verification
France’s 1-to-5-star hotel classification, run by Atout France, is voluntary and separate from company registration — confirming a hotel’s advertised star rating means checking the classification register, not the commercial one.
Seasonal and high-turnover workforce exposure
Accommodation and food service has one of the highest shares of small, single-site entities and seasonal staffing in the French economy, which shapes how lenders and counterparties assess operational and payroll-compliance risk in the sector.
Sub-sectors within Accommodation and Food Service Activities
SIC divisions inside this section, each with its own France company directory.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many Accommodation and Food Service Activities companies are registered in France?
Approximately 1,307,452 real businesses operate under Accommodation and Food Service Activities in France.
What does the Accommodation and Food Service Activities sector include in France?
The hotel's name on the sign and the company that owns the building are usually not the same entity — and neither of those is necessarily the one running day-to-day operations. Hospitality routinely separates the property owner from the brand licensor from the operating manager, across hotels, resorts, restaurants, and catering. Verifying who owns a given hotel means picking which of those three questions you are actually asking.
How is company ownership disclosed for Accommodation and Food Service Activities companies in France?
The same national framework applies here as for every other sector in France — there is no sector-specific beneficial-ownership regime for Accommodation and Food Service Activities.
Can I see all industries present in France?
Yes — the France company directory lists every industry with recorded companies for that jurisdiction, alongside the full beneficial-ownership overview for France.
Can I see Accommodation and Food Service Activities companies in other countries?
Yes — the Accommodation and Food Service Activities sector directory lists every country with recorded Accommodation and Food Service Activities companies on Zavia.
Can Zavia monitor changes to Accommodation and Food Service Activities companies in France over time?
A directory listing is a snapshot, not a live feed. Zavia's monitoring API tracks changes to registered shareholders, officers, and group structure for Accommodation and Food Service Activities companies in France going forward, flagging updates as they are filed instead of requiring a manual recheck.
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