Skip to main content

Tourist numbers in Paris doing well for the first sx months of 2018




Le Parisien newspaper reports the tourist numbers in Paris for the first six months of this year. It reports that there were 700,000 more tourists for the first six months of 2018 than there were for the same period in 2017, which is an increase of 4.1%. So far, for the first 6 months of 2018, there has been 17.1 million tourists in total in Paris.

On Monday, the Ile-de-France region (Paris) delivered its tourist numbers. The Château de Versailles (Versailles Palace – The Sun King Palace) had an "absolute record" for tourist numbers, said the Regional Committee of Tourism spokesperson Valérie Pécresse. 

"After the tragedy of the Bataclan at the end of 2015, one million tourists were lost in 2016," said Valérie Pécresse. The strategy to recover tourist numbers has paid off, because the Tourism Committee confirms a sustainable recovery of tourism activity in Paris. Foreigners are indeed back. 

The market share of international tourists increased by 9.2% during the first six months of 2018, while local French travellers to Paris decreased by 0.3%. 

The Eiffel Tower tourist numbers for the first six months of 2018 have not yet been announced. However, the Louvre is in first place for museums and monuments visited. The Louvre visitors amounted to 4,760,000 for the first six months of 2018 compared with 4,068,000 in 2017, which is an increase of 17%. The Château de Versailles is second with 3,708,418 visitors, representing an increase of 0.3%. In third place is the city of Sciences and Industry in Paris (in the 19th arrondisement), with 1,174,317 visitors, although it is an decrease of 4.6% on 2017 numbers. 

Valérie Pécresse announced that the Tourism Committee will continue its efforts to attract more tourists to Paris, building on the themes of hospitality, transport and security. 

Will there be a record of 50 million visitors to Paris by the end of the year? Paris is now waiting for an historic first at the end of the year – surpassing the 50 million visitors mark, which has never been achieved before. 

"The figures are showing very good results for an exceptional year," says Eric Jeunemaitre, president of the Regional Tourism Committee, who sees further growth rates with the 2018 Golf Ryder Cup in September, the Rugby World Cup 2023 and the Olympics in Paris in 2024.




MARTINA NICOLLSis an international aid and development consultant, and the authorof:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom(2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pir-E-Kamil - The Perfect Mentor by Umera Ahmed: book review

The Perfect Mentor pbuh  (2011) is set in Lahore and Islamabad in Pakistan. The novel commences with Imama Mubeen in medical university. She wants to be an eye specialist. Her parents have arranged for her to marry her first cousin Asjad. Salar Sikander, her neighbour, is 18 years old with an IQ of 150+ and a photographic memory. He has long hair tied in a ponytail. He imbibes alcohol, treats women disrespectfully and is generally a “weird chap” and a rude, belligerent teenager. In the past three years he has tried to commit suicide three times. He tries again. Imama and her brother, Waseem, answer the servant’s call to help Salar. They stop the bleeding from his wrist and save his life. Imama and Asjad have been engaged for three years, because she wants to finish her studies first. Imama is really delaying her marriage to Asjad because she loves Jalal Ansar. She proposes to him and he says yes. But he knows his parents won’t agree, nor will Imama’s parents. That
1 comment
Read more

Flaws in the Glass, a self-portrait by Patrick White: book review

The manuscript, Flaws in the Glass (1981), is Patrick Victor Martindale White’s autobiography. White, born in 1912 in England, migrated to Sydney, Australia, when he was six months old. For three years, at the age of 20, he studied French and German literature at King’s College at the University of Cambridge in England. Throughout his life, he published 12 novels. In 1957 he won the inaugural Miles Franklin Literary Award for Voss, published in 1956. In 1961, Riders in the Chariot became a best-seller, winning the Miles Franklin Literary Award. In 1973, he was the first Australian author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Eye of the Storm, despite many critics describing his works as ‘un-Australian’ and himself as ‘Australia’s most unreadable novelist.’ In 1979, The Twyborn Affair was short-listed for the Booker Prize, but he withdrew it from the competition to give younger writers the opportunity to win the award. His autobiography, Flaws in the Glass
Post a Comment
Read more

The Beggars' Strike by Aminata Sow Fall: book review

The Beggar’sStrike (1979 in French and 1981 in English) is set in an unstated country in West Africa in a city known only as The Capital. Undoubtedly, Senegalese author Sow Fall writes of her own experiences. It was also encapsulated in the 2000 film, Battu , directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko from Mali. Mour Ndiaye is the Director of the Department of Public Health and Hygiene, with the opportunity of a distinguished and coveted promotion to Vice-President of the Republic. Tourism has declined and the government blames the local beggars in The Capital. Ndiaye must rid the streets of beggars, according to a decree from the Minister. Ndiaye instructs his department to carry out weekly raids. One of the raids leads to the death of lame beggar, Madiabel, who ran into an oncoming vehicle as he tried to escape, leaving two wives and eight children. Soon after, another raid resulted in the death of the old well-loved, comic beggar Papa Gorgui Diop. Enough is enou
8 comments
Read more