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Paris dreams of responsible and local tourism

2021-07-01T22:47:06.234Z


The City wants to attract more French people. However, tourists from faraway countries are the biggest spenders.


More local and responsible tourism. While Paris has been deprived of foreign visitors for more than a year because of the Covid-19, the town hall wants to take advantage of this crisis to

“lay the foundations”

of a new tourism:

“sustainable, eco-responsible and local tourism, more oriented towards Parisians, Ile-de-France residents and nationals, or favoring longer stays ”

. This Thursday, the Paris city hall presented the work of the first sustainable tourism conference, launched in March with the Office of Tourism and Congress. While a large number of professionals - hoteliers, traders, restaurateurs - live thanks to international tourists, the City's ambitions are nevertheless creating a cold sweat.

“If Paris is no longer an international tourist city, it is the death of tourism in the capital,

reacts Philippe Villin, owner-operator of the Libertel hotel group.

There is no possible local tourism model.

A Parisian cannot be a tourist in his city, not

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Source: lefigaro

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