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American tourists: 2008 or the black year

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Published on 03/12/08 - Updated on 17/03/22

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Transatlantic economic crisis, unfavorable euro-dollar exchange rate, fuel surcharges at their highest… American tourists have deserted France this year. The result was a loss of earnings for the French tourism sector that was fortunately compensated by the arrival of new tourism clientele. A recovery on this key market is nonetheless hoped for in the year 2009.

“The desire for Paris is still alive,” assures Paul Roll, director of the Office of Tourism and Congress of Paris (OTCP). But this year fewer Americans have been wandering the streets of Montmartre and Saint-Germain des Près, to visit our museums and shop in the luxury and souvenirs boutiques in...

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