{"id":386931,"date":"2025-08-31T09:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386931\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:50:17","slug":"chinese-tourists-love-affair-with-paris-deepens-as-visits-surge-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386931\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tourists\u2019 love affair with Paris deepens as visits surge 15%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Many Chinese tourists arriving in Paris in recent weeks have been surprised by the same thing: the quiet. August is the traditional holiday month in France, when most Parisians flee the capital for sunny beaches in the south or exotic destinations abroad.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe French have all left, some neighbourhoods have barely any people,\u201d one user wrote on the Chinese social platform RedNote. Others posted photos of deserted boulevards near Parc Monceau and the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay.<\/p>\n<p>But that has not stopped Chinese travellers from <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3321240\/europe-expecting-wave-chinese-tourists-should-it-thank-donald-trump?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">flocking to Paris<\/a> in ever greater numbers this summer, as local tourism authorities predicted a 15 per cent year-on-year increase for June, July and August.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Of the top 10 sources of visitors to the French capital, the jump in visits from China was surpassed only by Canada, which saw a 31 per cent surge compared with 2024, according to data published by Choose Paris Region, the area\u2019s official international outreach agency, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">About 100,000 Chinese nationals are expected to tour Paris and the surrounding \u00cele-de-France region, where top attractions such as the Palace of Versailles and Disneyland Paris are located, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The double-digit increase is all the more impressive given that Paris hosted the Olympic Games in the summer of 2024, which <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/other-sport\/article\/3272449\/olympics-fever-drives-surge-chinese-japanese-south-korean-visitors-paris?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">triggered a strong rebound<\/a> in Chinese tourism following a plummet in visits during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Chinese tourists arriving in Paris in recent weeks have been surprised by the same thing: the quiet.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[9643,78925,943,1395,83585,134133,19762,134137,2000,299,36,34982,41943,134135,59243,134136,19438,85524,134138,1411,134134,70149,332,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-386931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-americans","9":"tag-august","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-chinese-foreign-minister-wang-yi","13":"tag-choose-paris-region","14":"tag-disneyland-paris","15":"tag-emiratis","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-france","19":"tag-french","20":"tag-galeries-lafayette","21":"tag-ile-de-france","22":"tag-july","23":"tag-musee-dorsay","24":"tag-olympic-games","25":"tag-palace-of-versailles","26":"tag-parc-monceau","27":"tag-paris","28":"tag-parisians","29":"tag-rednote","30":"tag-russia","31":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115122760897954242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}