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France's national tourism development and agency, Atout France, signed a sponsorship deal with the organizers of next year's UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament.

Paris Helpline, a turnkey, smartphone service, seeks to revolutionize the tourism experience.

Meliá Hotels International Opens the City’s Largest Four Star Hotel in Ten Years

The annual survey of foreign visitors and international tourism in France, produced by the Direction Générale des Entreprises and the Bank of France, confirms that France was the world’s leading tourist destination in 2014. With 83.7 million visitors, there was a slight 0.1% increase of arrivals in comparison with 2013.

Paris’ Pigalle district welcomed perhaps its most opulent hotel to date this winter, as the Belle Époque, Maison Souquet, opened its doors. The hotel, composed of 14 rooms and six junior suites, is lavishly decorated with aristocratic flare and situated in a former 20th Century private mansion, Maisons Closes.

On March 21, the highly-anticipated Joan of Arc History Museum will open to visitors in Rouen, France. The €10 million ($10.6m) project combines a state-of-the-art, immersive exhibition space with comprehensive historical content, transporting visitors back to Middle Ages and enabling them to explore the myth and legend of France’s national heroine

American Friends of Cité des Civilisations du Vin (AFCCV) has announced that on Thursday, April 30, 2015, it will host an elegant reception and fundraising event in the United Nation’s Delegates Dining Room in New York City.

Gone is the seedier Pigalle where visitors to the Paris quarter would have inevitably stumbled upon sex shops and risqué theatres. Today, the popular area of the ninth arrondissement is ushering in a new potpourri of concept bars, eateries, and boutique lodging options. But the arrival of refinement does not constitute a loss of character for the neighborhood. To that end, this March will see Grand Pigalle Hotel open its doors, creating an upgraded lodging option for well-heeled travelers to Paris’ South Pigalle, or what locals affectionately refer to as SoPi.