Tourism: One year after the Olympic Games, is Paris shining?

On Pont de Sully, in the 4th arrondissement, tourists and joggers pass each other without much thought. The Olympic atmosphere is reflected in the occasional "Paris 2024" logo left here and there. Tourists encountered near the Seine, the queen of the inaugural show orchestrated by Thomas Jolly , do not recognize themselves in the picture painted by official communications. That of tourism driven by the Olympic effect. "No, the Games didn't influence our decision to come," explains a Canadian family, who came to spend ten days in the capital. Another attempt, the same indifference. Fred and Estelle, a couple who traveled from Metz to take their daughter to catch a train at Montparnasse station, are mainly taking advantage of the stopover to see Notre-Dame.

Along the Seine, the guides are still refreshing visitors' memories. "It was on the façade of the Conciergerie that Marie-Antoinette was depicted with her head severed in front of some fifty monarchs during the Paris 2024 opening ceremony," one of them crisply reminds a group of Spanish tourists. At the reception desk, Manel, a security guard