Following our top French cities for hotel markets, Hospitality On's editorial team invites you to a detailed look at each city on the list. Each focus will provide an opportunity to draw a portrait of the destination: analysis of figures, major projects in progress... These texts will also be invitations to reflect on the challenges facing each destination. In second place: Grand Paris.
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#1 Paris
Ane now....Le Grand Paris !
Note on Methodology and problems:
The Grand Paris metropolitan area makes its debut in 2018 in the geographical frameworks set out by the MKG Consulting / OK_destination Observatory for their analyses: this explains the absence of figures for previous years. Moreover, this problem of delimitation chosen for the analysis is transversal to all considerations about this large urban area: Paris and all the surrounding municipalities? Metropolis of Greater Paris, i.e. intermunicipality? Ile-de-France region? Or, think of a rural/urban opposition, taking into account the entire continuous urban fabric that forms the centre of the Île-d- France?
In short: It is not easy to know "what we are talking about" when referring to Grand Paris. It was therefore necessary to make choices: the figures and their analyses speak of Grand Paris as the metropolis of Grand Paris. That is to say, the 131 municipalities that have come together under the Grand Paris Metropolitan Inter-municipality. However, the more detailed analysis, after the figures, will take place in a broader context including almost the entire Île de France. Especially in reference to some key places or some major projects in progress: Europa City in the Gonesse triangle, Disneyland, etc. So be aware: tables and analysis do not have exactly the same geographical referent.
And this gap is, in itself, revealing. It is akin to doing an article on Paris, and another on a larger area. Because while Paris is increasingly thought of, especially at the level of public power, as Le Grand Paris, reality offers much more diverse representations: moving beyond the ring road remains complicated, Grand Paris is precisely so large that it is made up...
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