Paris Tourism Has Recovered From 2015 Attacks, Officials Say
The restaurant’s clientele — about half of whom are international tourists — fell by 70 percent in the weeks after the November 2015 attacks.
Then the American and Chinese tourists came back — their numbers in December were up 30 percent and 40 percent from December 2014.
At the Plaza Athénée, a historic luxury hotel, the average occupancy rate in January was around 70 percent, which François Delahaye, the hotel’s general director, called "very good." "Slowly
but surely, if no major incidents arrive, business will take off again," Mr. Delahaye said.
The French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies reported this week
that visitor numbers at the end of 2016 equaled those from the end of 2014, suggesting that France would maintain its status as the world’s most-visited country.
The French government, which allocated 10 million euros to promote France as a tourist destination in 2016,
and the office of Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who has worked to make the city center greener and more pedestrian-friendly, focused on luring back tourists.
By MILAN SCHREUERAPRIL 14, 2017
PARIS — Tourism in Paris, which plunged after a series of terrorist attacks in 2015, has recovered strongly, according to new national data.