A booking website for your holiday home in the Gers
A département of holiday homes, a long season and British guests: what to know to let directly in the Gers, with the sources.
- TourismTourisme Gers
- Tourist taxCollected by your intercommunality: the whole département has been covered since 2023.
- Gîtes de FranceRelais des Gîtes de France du Gers
- CheckedOn the official sources, on 13 October 2026
Letting in the Gers
The Gers is a département of furnished lets. At the end of 2025, according to the departmental tourism board's key figures, furnished lets and gîtes make up 37% of its 30,600 commercial beds and overtake campsites (36%) for the first time. B&Bs account for 8%, hotels for 7%.
The season is long: 34% of nights are in July and August, and 68% from April to September. Guests are 71% French, first from Haute-Garonne, Gironde and Paris; among foreign guests, the British remain by far the most numerous, ahead of the Spanish and the Dutch. Festivals run through the year, from Jazz in Marciac to Bandas y Peñas in Condom, CIRCA in Auch or the Fleurance astronomy festival. Three spa towns, Castéra-Verduzan, Barbotan-les-Thermes and Lectoure, welcomed 12,900 spa guests in 2025, and two routes to Santiago cross the département: the Le Puy way (GR 65) and the Arles way (GR 653).
The tourist tax in the Gers
Since 2023, every intercommunality and urban community in the Gers collects the tourist tax: you declare it to yours, whichever commune you are in. The departmental tourism board announced the 10% departmental surcharge for 1 January 2025, and the Grand Armagnac filing platform applies it; it also mentions a 34% regional surcharge.
The rhythm varies from one territory to the next. In Grand Auch Cœur de Gascogne, you declare and pay every quarter, for instance before 30 April for January to March. In the Grand Armagnac, you declare every month, before the 15th, the nights of the previous month, and pay every quarter. Booking platforms count there as "third-party collectors": they pay over the tax on the nights they sell, a third of the total in 2023 according to the board.
Your direct bookings have no third-party collector: you declare them. Your website works out the tax on each booking and adds it up, so the figure to enter on your intercommunality's platform is already there.
Who can help you
The Destination Gers departmental tourism board, in Auch, has a professional area: labels, support for new projects, and a page on classifying furnished lets. Classification is voluntary, you apply online to Atout France, and the board lists who can help you: Clévacances Gers et Landes, the Gîtes de France relay, and the Armagnac & d'Artagnan and Cœur Sud-Ouest tourist offices.
The Gers Gîtes de France relay is listed, with its contact details, on the board's classification page. A labelled holiday home can have its own website as well: calendars sync through an iCal link when the relay provides one, and your contract with the relay is worth checking.
What a booking website changes here
Nearly one night in three is foreign, the British first. Your website has its English version, and the guest e-mails, confirmation, arrival and review request, go out in English to those who booked in English.
With a season that runs from April to September, the shoulder months count. Seasonal rates and length-of-stay discounts are set in your area; and for a holiday home on a route to Santiago, the minimum stay can be one night.
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Sources
- Tourisme Gers, key figures 2025
- Tourisme Gers, tourist-tax analysis 2023
- Tourisme Gers, classifying a property
- Grand Auch Cœur de Gascogne, tourist tax
- Grand Armagnac, tourist tax
- Tourisme Gers, the routes to Santiago
Information read on 13 October 2026 on the official pages cited. Decisions, rates and addresses change: check with your commune or intercommunality before declaring. Spotted a mistake? Write to us and we will correct it.