Talking Paris with the head of the tourism board

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Meet Corinne Menegaux, the managing director of the Paris tourism board (Paris je t’aime).

We discuss Paris, the legacy of the Olympic Games, and what's coming next. We also talk about her Paris, her job, and how she'd spend her last day in this city.

Find more about Paris je t'aime here: https://parisjetaime.com/eng/

Also mentioned in this episode:

The Earful Everywhere podcast (currently in Italy): https://theearfultower.com/2025/05/15/lets-explore-italy-with-the-earful-everywhere/
Our walking tours of Paris: http://www.theearfultower.com/tours

Music by Pres Maxson.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, Oliver G here from the Earful Tower podcast, and today's guest is Corrine Menigo,
0:07.7	who is the managing director of the Paris Tourism Office, Paris Jutem.
0:14.6	And I met her in her office to talk about the city of Paris, obviously, her relationship with it, the Olympic Games, and now that the
0:23.4	Olympic Games are one year on, what it all meant for the city of Paris going forward. So this is a
0:30.7	pretty fun chat. If you're a Paris fan, if you're thinking to come, this is a real insight
0:34.6	from the top, really. I mean, we talk about what her job is.
0:38.9	What does she do?
0:40.0	I mean, a typical tourism board in other cities probably works most to try and attract people to come.
0:46.4	Paris doesn't have to deal with that problem.
0:48.0	Everybody already loves Paris.
0:49.5	You're listening to the podcast.
0:51.3	So we talk about what a tourism board director does. We talk about a lot of the
0:55.4	usual stuff you hear on this podcast. If you're new around here, as I said, my name is Oliver
0:59.8	G. I've been doing this show for over eight years now with a new episode pretty much every Monday
1:07.1	where a special guest talks about Paris.
1:12.1	Sometimes France, sometimes the French language, but always a little bit of Paris.
1:16.9	So let's get into the episode, Corrine Menegault from the Paris-Jet-Term tourism board of the French capital.
1:24.3	And I'll be back at the end with some news and with some more from Paris.
1:29.1	Let's get into it.
1:36.5	Corrine, thank you for having me in your office.
1:38.7	Thank you, Oliver.
1:39.8	Happy to be there.
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