Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder, Tuesday the 12th of March.

I've been lucky enough to be in Paris, surely the most adorable city in the world.

Very interested in your views on that.

But specifically, the venue, of course, for the Olympic Games and the Paralympics taking place this summer.

I wanted to find out what is the impact going to be on tourists both before and during the Games.

So I've been to see Corinne Medigo.

She is the Director-General of Paris Jietem, the Tourism Office for the City.

Before the Games, I would say it's Paris as usual.

So everything is open, we're working, and that's probably a good opportunity to see Paris from another side also, because we are working hard for preparing the games.

So I would say games are more an accelerator for changes for us.

So that's a good opportunity.

And I would say during the games, of course,

this is the way of enhancing all the changes

that we've made in Paris for probably a more sustainable tourism,

better hospitality, if we can, ever better.

And everything about the cycling lanes,

the sand, which you can

swim in after the games. Can we talk about during the games itself? I would say transportation

will be a challenge, but most, not globally, because it's not a problem of having all the

people going everywhere, but it's more probably

a way of dealing with the peak attendance for some competitions, for example, because everyone

is going to one place at one moment, but for the other and the global territory, not so

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