Paris Tourism Office Releases Preliminary Olympic Report

Paris je t’aime, the city’s tourism bureau, released its preliminary report on Olympic Summer Games impact saying the United States was the leading international market during the competition.

The report says the United States had 230,000 tourists visit Paris during the Games, nearly double the second-leading country in Germany (130,000). The United Kingdom was third with 115,000 tourists and the global number of visitors in the Greater Paris metropolitan area during the Olympic Summer Games was estimated to be 11.2 million between tourists, residents and day-trippers.

The report said French visitors (tourists, day-trippers and residents) amounted to 85% of all visitors to the Olympic Games. Day-trippers, defined as people who came for one day, were mostly French from outside the Ile-de-France region and accounted for 27.7% of visitors in Greater Paris overall.

Paris je t’aime says day trips were up 9% in Villepinte around the Arena Paris Nord area which hosting boxing. The day-trip rate increased by 10% in Versailles, which hosted equestrian and modern pentathlon. In Saint-Denis, home of the Stade de France (rugby sevens and athletics) and Aquatic Centre (diving, artistic swimming and water polo), local day-trippers were up 40%.

The arrondissements most visited by foreign tourists were the 15^th, 8^th and 9^th.  The report says foreign overnight stays in Saint-Denis increased 205% vs 2023, having been a central area for many of the world’s media representatives. Hotel occupancy rates were up in all departments of the inner suburbs, by double-digits in most cases.