France continues to attract tourists despite the terror attacks

In spite of the terror attacks on Paris, tourists continue to be attracted by France and the overall number of tourists visiting France in 2015 have gone up marginally as compared with the year before to reach an all-time high. AS per official Government figures, 84.5 million tourists visited continental France, an increase of 0.9 per cent from 2014 and this was a record of sorts.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 9 April 2016.

Immediately after the November 13 attacks in which 130 people died, there was a drop of 15 per cent in the numbers of foreign visitors who traveled to Paris in the months of November and December. Before that massacre, two shooters had stormed the office of a satirical newspaper in January and killed a dozen people. Statistically speaking, after a 1.8 per cent increase over the first three quarters, there was a 3.1 per cent drop at national level in the last quarter.
The largest increase was among tourists from Asia - their numbers grew by 22.7 per cent, with Chinese visitors surpassing 2 million. Similarly, the number of Americans also showed an increase by 15.2 per cent to 3.6 million in 2015. However, there was a 1.5 per cent drop in European visitors although the number of British tourists crossing the Channel went up 3.3 per cent.
The French foreign affairs minister has targeted 100 million foreign tourists every year in France from 2020.


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