Tourism attendance up from “5 to 6%” in the early 2025 compared to 2023, the town hall greets “the Jo” effect “

A year after the party of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, the town hall is clearly noticing on tourism in the capital. A “festive tourism” that will have to be regulated to avoid over-tourism.

Tourist attendance has increased by “5 to 6%“At the beginning of 2025 compared to the same period of 2023, said on Saturday July 26 on Franceinfo Frédéric Hocquard, assistant at the town hall of Paris in charge of tourism and nightlife. He greets”The Jo effect“On tourism in the capital.”Since 2025“, After the 2024 Olympic Games period,”We have a fairly regular increase in the arrival of tourists in Paris“,”We see this summer“.

Frédéric Hocquard Sougne “Festive tourism“who appeared”From the Olympic Games“,”night tourism, which we did not“.”The Olympic Games were a party, the opening ceremony showed everything that was capable of doing the French music scene.“The elected official notes the appearance of a”Festive tourism in Parisian night clubs and nightclubs“. Among the tourists who choose Paris as a destination, the deputy to the mayor of Paris notes a”very strong accentuation of Europeans and North Americans“. It evokes an increase in”15 to 18%”of North Americans“compared to before the period of the Olympics, with also”Many Europeans“Coming from Germany, Belgium or England.

But this increase “Don’t go without a problem“, tempers Frédéric Hocquard. It will be necessary”regulate the tourist pressure there will be on the city“. The deputy mayor of Paris estimates about”35 million tourists“Who are currently coming to Paris every year.”I am not sure that we can go to 40 or 45 million tourists per year, without behind, we having, from the point of view of the population, some tensions and over-tourism“According to him, the marsh, the Montmartre Butte, the Champs Elysées, the Eiffel Tower and the Mars field are the neighborhoods have the strongest tourism.

“”Our subject now will be how we regulate the effects of boom in tourism that we had“, Adds Frédéric Hocquard. He does not want Paris”Finish like Barcelona or Amsterdam where there were negative reactions from the inhabitants because there were too many tourists“.”This is our big issue.“It is not a question”that you no longer need tourists“, more “that you have to regulate tourism“. Frédéric Hocquard wants to work on the questions of the “Tourist Cars“”on those concerning “Airbnb“And on a”better distribution of tourist flow on the metropolis“, in order to “Better distribute the load “.