法国：巴黎仍是最受欢迎的旅游城市
循序渐进原则Paris is once again the world's top tourist destination, France's regional tourism body has declared, a month after authorities angrily dismisd reports that London had overtaken the French capital as the world's most popular city.
法国地区旅游机构称，法国巴黎仍是世界最受欢迎的旅游城市。就在一个月前，有报告指伦敦已取代巴黎，成为世界观光之都，法国否认了这一观点。
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Despite some tough global economic conditions, it said 2013 was an "exceptional year" for tourism in Paris and the surrounding Ile-de-France region, with foreign visitors at "the highest level in 10 years".
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In all, some 32.3 million tourists flocked to the City of Lights, hotel figures suggest. Nearly 1
5.5 million of the were foreign visitors, reprenting an 8.2 percent increa from the previous year.
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The largest number of foreign tourists were Britons – some 2.1 million visitors – followed by Americans, Germans, Italians and Chine, who numbers shot up by almost 53 per cent to 881,000.
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电源管理模式The only black spot was a drop in Frenchclientele, some 7.5 per cent less than in 2012.
The figures came weeks after a row over which capital attracted the most tourists - London, or Paris.
Figures published in January showed the number of foreign visitors to London surged by almost 20 per cent last summer to a new record of 4.9 million between July and September.
"For the first time in history, the city [London] is on cour to welcome over 16 million overas visitors in one year," the British capital's tourism agency London &Partners said in a statement.
This led French right-wing daily Le Figaro to declare: "London dethrones Paris".
提手旁加Boris Johnson, London's mayor, weighed in.
"The incredible figures prove that London is without doubt the greatest city on the planet," he extolled.
月工资怎么算Anne Hidalgo, favourite to succeed Bertrand Delanoë, her fellow Socialist, as mayor of Paris in elections this month, then hit back at a "boastful" Mr Johnson, saying: "London aggressively lls itlf, often in a way that goes beyond the truth."
She said Paris beats London hands down in tourism, start-ups, shopping, safety and as a place to live with families.
Later she toned down her comments, saying: "Yes, the two cities are competitors – but if we also work together, we can be a global partnership to reckon with."
