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PARIS (Reuters) - France plans to spend a million euros to lure back foreign tourists after its image was damaged by pictures of burning cars and angry youths shown on televisions around the world during recent riots.
The Tourism Ministry said on Thursday it will take out advertisements in newspapers and travel websites, with one showing a couple embracing next to the Eiffel Tower.
The campaign will particularly target potential visitors from United States, Japan, China, Australia and Russia who France estimates are most sensitive to pictures of the violence that flared up in many of France's suburbs in November.
"In terms of image, the impact was inevitably negative for France," the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said they had seen cancellations from Russia and Japan but said that Americans took more of a wait-and-see attitude toward their holidays.
Tourism accounted for 6.5 percent of gross domestic product in France last year and tourist expenditure totaled 95.8 billion euros, according to government figures.
The ministry said it will take out internet spots with the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle to win over the American market.
The rioting was blamed mostly on youths who feel excluded from mainstream society and who are frustrated by racism, harsh police treatment and high unemployment.
theHawk said:Come on all, lets book our next vaction in France!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051208...M3gelIB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Nothing to see here, Eiffel Tower is THAT way ===>
The ClayTaurus said:The countryside of france is quite beautiful, from what I've heard. If I could assure isolation from as many native french people as possible, I would definitely consider going.
theHawk said:Come on all, lets book our next vaction in France!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051208...M3gelIB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Nothing to see here, Eiffel Tower is THAT way ===>
nosarcasm said:you compare advertisement to propaganda.
they will definetly need more than 1mil euros...France has very little to offer...well except a few foxes who shave their armpit hair and use deodorant..
padisha emperor said:Well, If you have so many wrong ideas about France, admit that I give the ideas about US people in Europe on this board : fat, dumb, stupid, noisy, eating all the days watching TV, creepy....and the girls, when they're not fat, are sluts. (they can be both)
I think you'll disagree with this. And you will be right. Same thing for French.
France :
Were you already in FRance ? really very little to offer ? wow ! Are you drunk ? It's probably because we've so little to offer on our 500 000 km2 soil that we are the #1 country in the wolrd for tourism, and USA, with their 16 times greater soil, are behind France...
What I like in France, about the geography, is that there are many different panoramas : mountains (Alpes, Jura, Vosges, Pyrrénées.........), large plains, wide rivers.....and so many other things; In fact, in a quite small territory, there are awesome things.
And about the cultural aspects : so many monuments, castles, museum, nice place to visit......
when you drive in the France's campaign, there is always a castle, a trace from the past.
And about the riots :
international study about the most attractive cities : London is #1, Paris #2, just behind London. NY is #7.
So, the riots didn't scratch so much the feeling about Paris.
For you maybe, but for the largest part, you have bad feelings against France and French.
And like kids, when you don't like something, even for a wrong reason, you'll reject all from it, even if these things would be very good for you.
Visit France, you'ld not regret it.
Visit Paris, take at least the week, and after, travel trough the rest of the country :
Britanny, excellent, perfect food, nice places, good alcohols
Burgundy, awesome for wine and snails (taste it, you'll see, it's good in fact)
Alsace : a french-german culture, really nice, great food, white wine and beers.
Provence : the mediterranean side, with sun and pastis (local alcohol, great !), the food is also fantastic (I live in Aix, here).
In all the regions of France, there are specialities, very different things, and all are excellents. And you can't copare the food from Britanny with the one from Alsace, or Provence.
if you travel France, try to taste in each region the local food. It's a wonder, your mouth will be enlightened by these wonderful flavours
(Here I only spoke about the food side, bu of course there is also the cultural and sightseeing side, greater than anywhere)
rtwngAvngr said:Being french must be like being an Amway representative (node in the socially based promotion and distribution network that is the genius of multlevel marketing). Look at this sissified stooge, going on and on about picturesque views and s :ali:
Said1 said:Uhhh, bonjour. They weren't muslims. They were frenchmen, who also happened to be mulsims. No connection. No connection at all, mon dieu es te, du tabarnac!
rtwngAvngr said:They weren't muslim; they were poor. Everyone knows the two are mutually exclusive.
Said1 said:No. Everyone knows they were Frenchmen. Everything else is secondary and coincidental, es te. Get your head out of your patun!
I also like their term for ghetto - suburb, as if.
rtwngAvngr said:Exactly. The problem should just not be analyzed in any depth at all. That might lead to doubleplusungood conclusions.
Amway has ripped off millions of people for several decades, to the tune of 10s of billions of dollars.padisha emperor said:Well, If you have so many wrong ideas about France, admit that I give the ideas about US people in Europe on this board : fat, dumb, stupid, noisy, eating all the days watching TV, creepy....and the girls, when they're not fat, are sluts. (they can be both)
I think you'll disagree with this. And you will be right. Same thing for French.
France :
Were you already in FRance ? really very little to offer ? wow ! Are you drunk ? It's probably because we've so little to offer on our 500 000 km2 soil that we are the #1 country in the wolrd for tourism, and USA, with their 16 times greater soil, are behind France...
What I like in France, about the geography, is that there are many different panoramas : mountains (Alpes, Jura, Vosges, Pyrrénées.........), large plains, wide rivers.....and so many other things; In fact, in a quite small territory, there are awesome things.
And about the cultural aspects : so many monuments, castles, museum, nice place to visit......
when you drive in the France's campaign, there is always a castle, a trace from the past.
And about the riots :
international study about the most attractive cities : London is #1, Paris #2, just behind London. NY is #7.
So, the riots didn't scratch so much the feeling about Paris.
For you maybe, but for the largest part, you have bad feelings against France and French.
And like kids, when you don't like something, even for a wrong reason, you'll reject all from it, even if these things would be very good for you.
Visit France, you'ld not regret it.
Visit Paris, take at least the week, and after, travel trough the rest of the country :
Britanny, excellent, perfect food, nice places, good alcohols
Burgundy, awesome for wine and snails (taste it, you'll see, it's good in fact)
Alsace : a french-german culture, really nice, great food, white wine and beers.
Provence : the mediterranean side, with sun and pastis (local alcohol, great !), the food is also fantastic (I live in Aix, here).
In all the regions of France, there are specialities, very different things, and all are excellents. And you can't copare the food from Britanny with the one from Alsace, or Provence.
if you travel France, try to taste in each region the local food. It's a wonder, your mouth will be enlightened by these wonderful flavours
(Here I only spoke about the food side, bu of course there is also the cultural and sightseeing side, greater than anywhere)
Being french must be like being an Amway representative (node in the socially based promotion and distribution network that is the genius of multlevel marketing). Look at this sissified stooge, going on and on about picturesque views and stinky cheese while the muslims are burning it all down.
