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Asian visitors boost French tourism

A surge in visitors from Asia helped France retain its crown as the most-visited country in the world in 2018, new figures show.

The 7.4% rise in tourists from Asia swelled visitor numbers to 89.4million – a 3.3% increase on 2017 – generating revenue of €56.2billion

Visitors from India alone jumped 16%, while Japanese tourist numbers rose 11%, despite negative end-of-year international headlines sparked by the gilets jaunes.

The protest movement has been blamed in part for a 5.6% drop in hotel stays in the first two months of this year.

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