France the most visitors in 2013: 84.7 million tourists.

La France, pays du monde le plus visité en 2013

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Avec 84,7 millions de touristes étrangers en visite dans l’Hexagone l’année dernière, la France conserve sa place de première destination touristique au monde.

With 84.7 million foreign tourists visiting mainland France last year, France keeps her place as the first tourist destination in the world.

« Douce France » qui fait encore et toujours le bonheur des touristes : en 2013, 84,7 millions de visiteurs étrangers ont posé le pied dans l’Hexagone, avec une croissance des arrivées en hausse de 2 % par rapport à 2012. Un score qui fait de la France le pays le plus visité au monde, loin devant les Etats-Unis (69,8 millions de touristes), et l’Espagne (60,7 millions).

“Sweet France” is again the happiest for tourists: in 2013, 84.7 million foreign visitors put their feet on mainland France, with a growth in arrivals and a 2% rise compared to 2012. This makes France the most visited in the world, a long way in front of the USA (with 69.8 million tourists), and Spain (with 60.7 millions)

Dans leur étude annuelle publiée lundi, la Direction générale de la compétitivité, de l’industrie et des services (DGCIS) et la Banque de France indiquent que les Européens sont les premiers à visiter le pays (+1,2 %). « Ils contribuent ainsi pour moitié à la croissance des arrivées de touristes en France », rapporte le document. 13 millions d’Allemands (+6,5 %) et 12,6 millions de Britanniques (+3,4 %) se sont ainsi rendus en France l’an dernier. Et tandis que les clientèles belge, luxembourgeoise, italienne et espagnole se font moins nombreuses, les Irlandais, les Portugais et les Grecs font leur retour dans l’Hexagone. Plus surprenant, la présence des Espagnols et les Italiens, d’ordinaire importante, est en recul de respectivement 12 et 3 %. Des contre-performances liées, selon la DGCIS et la Banque de France, aux « difficultés économiques persistantes de ces deux pays dans lesquels le PIB a reculé en 2013, comme en 2012 ».

In their annual study, published on Monday, Director General of industry and services competitiveness (DGCIS) and the Banque de France indicate that Europeans are leading the trend (+1.2%). “They contribute in this way half of the growth of tourist arrivals to France” reported the published document. 13 million Germans (+6.5%) and 12.6 million Britons (+3.4%) came to France last year. The tendency shows the Belgians, Luxemburgers, Italians and Spanish are less numerous, while the Irish, Portuguese and Greeks are making their way back to mainland France. More surprising, the normally big presence of Spanish and Italians have fallen back by 12% and 3% respectively. These figures indicate, according to DGCIS and B de F, the difficult economic conditions that persist in these countries and their depressed GDP in 2013, likewise in 2012.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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