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“Welcome to Seine-Saint-Denis”: the Olympic Games, a springboard for tourism?

2024-02-17T06:00:12.898Z

Highlights: Seine-Saint-Denis is one of the most popular tourist destinations in France. The Olympic Games could be a springboard for tourism in the department. Tourism office relocated within the Olympic village, new marketing strategies. The department's tourism chief: “Today, we are often a hotel for Paris. It’s good, it brings in tourist tax but not enough for our businesses, our restaurants…” Subscribe Already subscribed? To log in, go to the page you came from.


Card distributed to tourists, office relocated within the Olympic village, new marketing strategies... In the department where it is located


Happy holder of tickets to attend athletics events during the Olympic Games, Victor, 42, has already reserved two rooms with his girlfriend and a couple of friends in a hotel in Saint-Ouen, two stops from the Stade de France.

The Toulouse quartet planned, the day before D-Day, to “walk around Montmartre and see the atmosphere in Paris”.

Unimaginable, for them, to go sightseeing in Seine-Saint-Denis.

What if the global event could divert visitors from the usual circuits?

“Today, we are often

a hotel for Paris

,” says Emmanuel Blum, director of the Plaine Commune tourist office.

It’s good, it brings in tourist tax but it’s not enough for our businesses, our restaurants…”

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Source: leparis

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