Attacks, protests hit Paris tourism
1 Jun 2016 4:35 AM IST
Hotel bookings by Japanese visitors were down 56 per cent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2015, while Russians were down by 35 per cent, the city’s tourist board said.
Chinese tourists had been a major driver of growth last year – reaching a new record of 1.2 million – but their numbers had also dropped by 13.9 per cent. “The start of 2016 is still feeling the disastrous consequences of the attacks in 2015,” the tourism board said in a statement.
France is the world’s most visited country, but tourists have been scared off by the November attacks in the capital that left 130 people dead and the January 2015 killings at Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket.
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