Tuesday, August 22, 2017

[Globalist] Yahoo: Paris revels in tourism surge, but cautious after Barcelona - Maybe Paris street Afro shantytowns are a big draw! --tma





PARIS (Reuters) - Paris is on track to welcome more tourists this year than ever before after a bumper first half, a senior official said, though some would-be visitors might think again after the Barcelona attack.
The Paris region registered 16.4 million arrivals in the six months to June, its tourist board said on Tuesday.
That was the most in any first half of the year since current records began in 2008, confirming a strong recovery from a lull that followed Islamist attacks in the French capital in November 2015 that killed 130 people. ...