page_title: Hotel barge
hierarchical_section_title: Hotel barge
caption_attribution_description: English: Prospérité Barge in Vandenesse-en-Auxois on Burgundy Canal. Château de Châteauneuf is on the hill in the background.
context_page_description: The hotel barge came into being following the decline in commercial and freight carrying on the canals of Europe. Many working barges have been converted into floating hotels of varying degrees of luxury. This trend began in the 1960s and has now grown into a network of hotel barges operating on the canals and rivers of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. The majority of hotel barges operate on the French waterways, where the national authority Voies Navigables de France estimates their economic importance at 60 million euros of local income, or roughly 5% of all waterway tourism business in France.
context_section_description: The hotel barge (fr. péniche hôtel) came into being following the decline in commercial and freight carrying on the canals of Europe. Many working barges have been converted into floating hotels of varying degrees of luxury. This trend began in the 1960s and has now grown into a network of hotel barges operating on the canals and rivers of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. The majority of hotel barges operate on the French waterways, where the national authority Voies Navigables de France estimates their economic importance at 60 million euros of local income, or roughly 5% of all waterway tourism business in France.
caption: Prospérité Barge in Vandenesse-en-Auxois on Burgundy Canal. Château de Châteauneuf is on the hill in the background.
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