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Meat withdrawn from French supermarkets over E.Coli risk
Lidl and Super U among stores selling potentially impacted ground beef
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Ryanair becomes most popular carrier at Toulouse airport
Several low-cost carriers are targeting the French city with route expansions
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New reports of Britons missing flights due to EES delays
Queues of several hours reported in Spain prior to full EES rollout
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.
