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Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne: "The Quai d'Orsay teams are on the bridge morning, noon and evening"

2020-03-23T19:48:21.389Z


INTERVIEW - The Secretary of State for Tourism believes that everything is being done by the government so that the tourist industry, when it is stopped, can withstand the shock.


LE FIGARO. - How will the 70,000 French tourists still stranded abroad be able to return to France? How long will it take?

Jean-Baptiste LEMOYNE. - They were 130,000 at the start. Since Friday, 60,000 returns have been made. Currently, 173 countries have taken restrictive measures against France, 146 of which prohibit entry to the French. In countries where there is still regular traffic, even reduced, with Jean-Yves Le Drian and Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, we work with airlines to identify needs, establish flight plans while asking them to offer prices moderate. I salute the work carried out by Air France and its subsidiary Transavia. For Morocco, for example, 140 flights have enabled the return of more than 20,000 French tourists.

Read also: The puzzle of the repatriation of 70,000 French tourists stranded abroad

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