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Tokyo is the world’s most dynamic food city, even without the Michelin stars
DestinationsIn 2007, Michelin published its first-ever restaurant guide to Tokyo and awarded the city more stars than even Paris. Jean-Luc Naret, Michelin’s editorial director at the time, was emphatic: Tokyo, he said, was “by far the world’s capital of gastronomy,” a comment that seemed as much an indictment of Paris, and of France, as it [...]
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Airbus looks to dominate headlines at Paris air show with A350 rollout
TransportAirbus SAS engineers are working 13-hour days to get the company’s latest A350 plane off the ground in time to scoop the headlines at next month’s Paris air show. A flight around the year’s biggest aviation expo, starting June 17, would let Airbus steal the limelight from Boeing Co., which aims to use the event [...]
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Euro Disney expected to announce lower losses for first half of 2013
DestinationsEuro Disney, the theme park complex on the outskirts of Paris, is expected to announce reduced net losses for the first half of 2013 as a result of a €1.3bn (£1.1bn) debt refinancing deal with its 39.8% shareholder the Walt Disney Company. Since Euro Disney opened in 1992 it has made an annual loss 13 [...]
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Iconic Louvre pyramid painted for first time in controversial exhibit
DestinationsAn Italian artist decorated the Louvre museum’s glass pyramid Wednesday for the first time in the iconic monument’s history, in a protest against capitalism. The artwork, a huge three-looped infinity sign made of mirrors, faces due west onto France’s business district, La Defense. Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the world’s leading conceptual artists, covered one panel [...]
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British tourists snub French holidays in favor of Spain and Italy
DestinationsFrom Henry V to Peter Mayle, Britons have long been invading France with enthusiasm in order to claim a small corner of it for themselves. But figures published by the Office for National Statistics suggest that the nation’s love affair with the chateaux of the Dordogne and the patisseries of Paris may be on the [...]
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Legendary Paris hotel auctions off its contents prior to major renovation
DestinationsCrillon, the 100-year-old hotel that housed General Eisenhower after the Liberation of Paris, is auctioning off almost everything, from beds and curtains to 2,000 bottles of wine and doormen’s uniforms. The dressers, Baccarat coffee cups, mini bars, room service trolleys and lights fixtures from Crillon’s halls, 147 room, 44 suites are going up for sale [...]
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Tourists can blame pickpockets for closing down Paris’ Louvre Wednesday
DestinationsTourists caught no glimpse of the Mona Lisa, Winged Victory or Venus de Milo on Wednesday due to a one-day closure of the Louvre, as guards protested that pickpockets were rampant at the world’s most visited museum. Two hundred museum guards exercised their right to a work stoppage, forcing the museum to shut its doors [...]
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Video of the week: The Quiet City: Winter in Paris
DestinationsA languid and mesmerizing ode to the big city, “The Quiet City: Winter in Paris” is a stark and beautiful short film that takes us through a slow tour of the world’s most visited boulevards. Filmmaker Andrew Julian shot the film on a Blackmagic Cinema Camera during a recent trip to Paris. Watch this one full screen. Claire and I [...]
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Updated: City of Paris launches a tourism startup incubator
DigitalUpdated below: Officials in Paris have…launched a startup incubator program focused on “urban tourism”, named Welcome City Lab. The plan is to host 40 startups and open meeting space to organize conferences, demos and meetups. This will be the tenth official incubator in the City of Paris. The first founding partners are Aéroport de Paris and Sodexo [...]
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Air, rail travel comes to a halt in Europe as winter storm brews across continent
TransportFrankfurt airport suspended flights following heavy overnight snowfalls and Eurostar Group Ltd. ceased Channel Tunnel train services for the day as blizzards hit air, rail and road travel across swathes of northern Europe. About 300 flights to and from Europe’s third-busiest airport were canceled before owner Fraport AG stopped operations. Eurostar halted passenger-express services through [...]
