River tourism in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region represented in 2018 - just before the global pandemic linked to COVID - 417 pleasure boats rented i.e 30% of the national supply. These are 29,520 passengers who sailed on the canals and rivers of the region that year, a clientele still predominantly foreign from Germany, Switzerland, Great-Britain or the Netherlands even if the French attendance increased by 22%.