{"id":93151,"date":"2014-06-21T14:43:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T10:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=93151"},"modified":"2014-06-21T14:43:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T10:43:35","slug":"shock-horreur-finance-minister-tells-cash-strapped-and-perennially-rude-french-to-be-nice-to-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=93151","title":{"rendered":"Shock horreur: Finance minister tells cash-strapped (and perennially rude) French to be NICE to tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/france-paris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93148\" alt=\"france-paris\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/france-paris.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/france-paris.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/france-paris-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/france-paris-445x300.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>France wants to boost tourism to 100million visitors a year and has told locals to be friendlier and more hospitable to foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>The nation needs to shake off its reputation for being unfriendly and learn to be more hospitable, commerce minister Fleur Pellerin said at a national tourism conference in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>France is the world&#8217;s most visited country, attracting 83 million tourists in 2012, but the government had now fixed a target of 100 million tourists by 2015, Mr Fabius said.<br \/>\nThe nationwide tourist action plan comes after repeated international\u00a0 surveys have found that the French capital is one of the world&#8217;s most hostile places for foreign visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Last year after the Paris Tourist Board issued a &#8216;politeness manual&#8217; to service industry workers in bid to change the city&#8217;s reputation for being the rudest place on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Paris attempted a similar campaign three years earlier, hiring &#8216;smile ambassadors&#8217; to be friendly to visitors at the city&#8217;s main attractions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; France wants to boost tourism to 100million visitors a year and has told locals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":93148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[11459,11460,3451],"class_list":["post-93151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-finance-minister","tag-french","tag-tourists","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}