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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