The Eiffel Tower in Paris welcomed 6.3 million guests final yr, its administration firm stated Friday, greater than got here in 2019 earlier than the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last yr’s customer numbers — up eight % year-on-year — have been juiced by occasions to honor its designer Gustave Eiffel 100 years after his demise, the SETE working firm stated in an announcement.
The tower additionally added new choices similar to guided excursions and movie star chef-cooked meals in its luxurious restaurant.
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France’s “Iron Lady” boasted as much as seven million visits in 2014 and 6.2 million 5 years later.
It was closed throughout the nation’s first pandemic lockdown from March to June 2020 and once more from October 2020 to July 2021.
The largest contingent of Eiffel Tower guests, at 18.9 % of the full, got here from France, adopted by North Americans at 18 % — with 13.2 % coming from the United States alone.
Non-French Europeans accounted for 44 %, with the biggest numbers coming from Germany, Britain and Spain.
And final yr’s Rugby World Cup introduced elevated visits from international locations in Oceania, together with Australia and New Zealand.
Paris’s main museums, one other of the French capital’s prime points of interest, additionally returned to pre-Covid customer numbers and even set new data final yr.