Paris Tourism Has Recovered From 2015 Attacks, Officials Say<br />The restaurant’s clientele — about half of whom are international tourists — fell by 70 percent in the weeks after the November 2015 attacks.<br />Then the American and Chinese tourists came back — their numbers in December were up 30 percent and 40 percent from December 2014.<br />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<br />but surely, if no major incidents arrive, business will take off again," Mr. Delahaye said.<br />The French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies reported this week<br />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.<br />The French government, which allocated 10 million euros to promote France as a tourist destination in 2016,<br />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.<br />By MILAN SCHREUERAPRIL 14, 2017<br />PARIS — Tourism in Paris, which plunged after a series of terrorist attacks in 2015, has recovered strongly, according to new national data.
