In France, museums have (almost) found their visitors
The Louvre Museum is one of the busiest and most visited by tourists from all over the world.
AFP - STEFANO RELLANDINI
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Everywhere in France, museums and monuments are reviving attendance.
The return of foreign tourists, with the exception of the Chinese, has a lot to do with it.
And even if these good figures are good news for the sector, the Louvre Museum, for example, does not want to return to the record of 10 million visitors in 2018.
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From the Covid pandemic, museums will have learned one thing, gauges and reservations on the internet allow a better experience for the visitor, which should be able to be extended when attendance is again at its zenith.
Small and large establishments are announcing very good figures for 2022.
In Paris, the Musée d'Orsay and the Orangerie have 4.2 million visitors, the Center Pompidou 3 million, the Louvre less than 8 million and the Center des Monuments Nationaux 10 million, the Arc de Triomphe and the Sainte Chapelle in head.
In the regions, a new local public, born of health restrictions, has enabled excellent museum attendance, with, for example, a record for the Château de Chambord, visited by one million people, two-thirds of whom are French.
We can be delighted with this good economic situation, which nevertheless hides a challenge, the management of mass tourism.
The return of tourists at the end of 2022 to Paris has created endless queues in front of museums, even full slots over several days at the Louvre.
Its president, Laurence des Cars, has moreover announced that she does not wish to reconnect with attendance records and that she will henceforth limit the number of visitors to 30,000 per day in order to ensure better visitor comfort, the great challenge for the years to come.
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