Posted on 02/22/2017 8:00:52 AM PST by davikkm
Paris and the surrounding region lost 1.5 million tourists on 2016 as visitors, especially from the Far East, stay away due to ongoing terror fears. According to the Comité Regional du Tourisme, the Paris Ile-de-France region also lost 1.3 billion euros in tourist income, while the number of nights spent by foreign visitors in the regions hotels also fell by 10.8 per cent.
Some sights in particular have suffered deeply from the lack of tourists and cancellations by school groups, the committee says, including the Arc de triomphe which saw a 24 per cent drop in visitors.
The Louvre museum, which earlier this month was subject to an attack from a machete wielding man shouting Allahu Akbar, also saw a 13.3 per cent drop last year.
The fears have even hit Disneyland Paris, which saw a 9.5 per cent drop in foreign visitors.
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Is there any benefit to Islam, which offsets these losses of tourism???
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They haven’t cut your head off yet.
How long until the NEW EXHIBIT at the Eiffel Tower opens?? I here they are going to have Muslims throwing Gays off the Tower and sell tickets to watch.
This is very bad news for the French who depend on tourism for their living and what industry in France doesn’t?
Marine Le Pen will ride to the rescue.
Canada has been the recipient of more tourism recently because Americans and others are choosing not to go to Europe.
I saw recently that McGill has been named as one of the best universities in the world. It actually isn’t but people are declining to attend European universities. McGill sounds like a safe bet so everyone is applying
You can have decent people and culture or you can have islam. You can’t have both in one place.
Detroit is closer and smells better.
That is a reeeeeallllly conservative number! I wonder if its Euros or dollars?
Like POTUS says....Paris isn’t Paris, anymore.
So glad we made a trip there, a few years ago...before it got this bad :(
Au revoir cher ami!
Cracking down on TIN use for EITC benefits, asking them to return the ill gotten monies, could scare a ton of cheats out of the country as well.
DemocRATS just let the problems fester just as is Europe and made the problems much worse. Sad.
I’ve been wondering if tourism drops were going to be reported by the MSM. For Paris, England, Rome, Deutschland. Even Canada and Mexico. Actually, I may never leave the USA again.
I was in Paris in 2001 and my euro work counterparts wanted to go to dinner; I asked where I should meet them; they said NO, we’ll come get you, there are NO GO places in Paris and it’s not safe for an American woman.
Western Europe is lost
Paris politicians solution:
“Let us bring in more muslims ‘tourists’ oui oui”
To all countries welcoming Muslim refugees: DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!!!
PING!
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