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RULES OF THE GAME:TOURISMOPHOBIA

What are we talking about: Tourism!

A dream for most of us…

Everyone dreams of tourism

Yes everybody!

Dreams…

…versus Reality!

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Tourismophobia

Fear and aversion of inhabitants of some Europeancities against mass tourism

A blind rage

Damage grounds

Housing: rise of rentsbecause of Short termrentals

Mobility: traffic jam

Pollution of air, water and views : a liner is pollutingsuch as 1 million

cars

Tourism in Paris

• 1st World destination for tourists

• Goal in 2020: 100 m of tourists and 50 b €

• Paris 1st Airbnb city in the world

• Paris is the 17th worst European city concerning Air pollution

No tourismophobia in Paris…

• 35 million of tourists in Paris• Tourism is 12% of Parisian economy

But watchfulness

• Quality of welcome tourists• Financial and social issues for

the City Hall• Impacts on inhabitants’ life

New framework:The Town of Paris supported all regulations on short termrentals

Other French places

Bordeaux

South-West South-East

Solutions

• Mobility Efficient transport policy

• Housing Real urban policy and regulation of short term rentals (e.g. fair fiscality)

• QualityWelcoming Charter adopted by all tourism stakeholders

To go further

1. Need a commun thought to create a new tourism: sustainable and respectful

2. From promoting tourism to managing tourism

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