Tourist homes: behind the dream ...

The Residence is still dreaming investors. Of the 150,000 investors account market, 85% are individuals. On paper, this investment of buying an apartment in a residence for rent to vacationers, is attractive.
First, it invests in stone benefiting from tax advantages: a tax on income through schemes of non-professional furnished accommodation (Leaseback) and device Censi-Bouvard reduction, as well as an exemption from VAT on the acquisition. Then, the individual does nothing to manage. The operator is responsible for finding tenants and pay back rents guaranteed by commercial lease.

With these arguments, developers and operators abound of projects. Les Menuires (Savoy) in Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) through Beauval (Loir-et-Cher), dozens of new homes are put on the market.

Not to mention Village Nature, the "biggest tourist resort project in Europe" is about to break ground a few miles from Disney, in the forests of Ferrieres and Crecy. Green walls, hanging gardens, geothermal ... the green luxury residence, which will be sold at full price - 5200 Euro / m2 - Pierre et Vacances Center Parcs (PVCP).

New wave of sunbeds

The beaches are they still condemned to decline the same recliner plastic accompanied by a striped mattress? In 1987, the precursor designer Marc Berthier addresses the issue by drawing a Pampelonne beach in Ramatuelle. Twenty years later, Matali Crasset invents the beach Hi Beach in Nice for which she imagines a playful and friendly furniture. Always inspired by the coast, it recurs in 2013 Bibliobeach, kiosk reading installed on a range of Istres.
A little further on, the boss of the private beach from Hyères Le Marais no longer supports the standardization of bathing places. "We settled on one of the last wild corners of the coast. So I wanted to enroll in our natural environment without upsetting," said David Pirone. So he appealed to a young designer, Antoine Boudin, to design a space "custom" made ​​in the region. The furniture is designed in Provence cane, which is found along the coast and rustling in nature, a few meters from the shore.

Let adrift

Far from the crowded beaches and roads congested, it is a gentle alternative to everyone - Holiday in against-foot, over water and open fields. Take a barge and sail to the rhythm locks, lapping and desires, it is a pleasure that many French metropolitan yet ignorant, wrongly considered that river tourism is too outdated, leaving foreign visitors (80% customer) all the happiness of this charming nautical leisure. Yet at the age of questioning mass consumption, of letting go and return to authentic, traveling across the country to 8 km / h in a small houseboat (no license required), c 'is right in tune with the times ...
France has 8,500 km of navigable waterways, is the largest network in Europe, and only about 1,600 boats (the figures are reversed in the UK), as saying that there is no crowd on the canals . To raise the profile of this type of resort, professional or charter operators, rental companies have come together, have invested in new vessels and comfortable, and offer thematic and personalized trails, without imposing marked trails. Because, as Ophelia Barrier Locaboat company emphasizes "the pleasure is also in the freedom of navigation at will."

Ibiza, entre paradis et enfer

You're barely off the plane, sleepy, lights off, the most famous French Earth you harpooned by the swimsuit, 

invites you to dance, hop! here, right now, in his nightclub airport named "F *** me I'm famous' - the translation is probably unnecessary - located between gates 12 and 13 and open round the clock. It is both surprising and tempting because on the poster, David Guetta has a Christ-look, eyes superhero bursting as two pellets of pure light. 

L'ÎLE "NUMBER ONE" ON THE SCALE coolness 

At this point, you still have options. If you have a project to swallow a whole colony of mushrooms or if you are in possession of one cubic meter of ecstasy that will allow you to take more than five minutes the sound shock, you have the right not to succumb to the preliminary modern idol to which the natives passing devote an inordinate worship. David Guetta, number one on the universal scale DJ, Emperor of Ibiza, the island number one on the global scale of coolness, the perfect world of techno endless and taboo. 

However, if you want to take your time to assess the reasonable distance that still separates you from the hell of the dance, you have to leave quietly in the countryside, dropping playa d'en Bossa beach concrete and neon located just outside the airport, between the track aircraft and the old town. Disciplinary camp night

In the UK, David Cameron at war against "tourism Family Allowances"

David Cameron does not want to be overtaken by the right. After a cabinet reshuffle in which he separated the most centrist of his ministers, the British prime minister announced Tuesday, July 29, a "hardening of the migration system." The occupant of 10 Downing Street has introduced a series of measures to fight against illegal immigration and reduce the access of European immigrants to social benefits. The goal is clear: "Give priority to the British," he wrote in an article published Tuesday in the Daily Telegraph, the big right-wing daily.

Paris rolls out the red carpet at the palaces

In Paris, luxury hotels springing up like mushrooms after rain. The Peninsula is

the last in the list. The new luxury hotel welcomed its first guests, Friday, August 1, avenue Kléber. A jet of a champagne cork from the Champs-Elysées. Overall, after four years of titanic work, the new prestigious address in Paris offers 200 rooms including 45 suites spread over 31 000 square meters of the Belle Epoque former International Conference Centre architecture. An investment of nearly € 900 million out of the pocket of a partnership between Qatar Hospitality (80%), an investment fund of Qatar, Hong Kong and Shanghai Hospitality, owner of the Peninsula brand (20%). 

France is really the world's top tourist destination?

The France well ahead on tourist arrivals 

2013 are used to preliminary figures provided by the World Tourism Organization (unavailable for France)
These performances are from the Grand Paris, leading tourist destination in the world (47 million visitors) to London (35 million), but also by the Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA)

  Where in France benefit most from tourism? 

Maintaining an annual growth of 2% (in terms of realistic forecasts of the World Tourism Organization), the target of 100 million tourists set by the Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, should be achieved by 2022 . progress tourism should be based on the influx of increasingly massive Asian clientele. The Chinese still represent only 2% of tourists, but the figure was up by 23.4% year on year.

Untapped economic potential? 

If there is one figure that the Ministry of Economy is careful not to mention, is that the revenue generated by the influx of foreign tourists. With 20% more visitors, the French tourism generates three times less money than American tourism - which is explained by the demographic importance of the United States, where domestic tourism mechanically produces more revenue.

More worrisome to most comparable demographics, France gets just as much money as Spain, which receives far fewer tourists

In the northern districts of Marseille

From his window, one sees the huge mobile cranes of the port and the sea. Foot of the building built in the 1950s, old buildings and social housing the old slaughterhouse became the Second Chance School. Further down the hill, the city Campaign Leveque, who was long the longest bar in Europe HLM.

It is in this industrial setting and worker's district Cabucelle that Virginia Lombard opened his guest room: she offers for 40 euros a night and a breakfast in his modest F3. It is one of the few to live in collective housing, among the members of the cooperative population Hotel North who wants to promote tourism in the northern suburbs of Marseille.

This old Parisian joined this network two years ago, attracted by the idea of social tourism in these deprived areas. Since then, she has specialized in urban walks - 6 euros per person for three hours of walking. Part-time gardener, it shows the flora of trails that wind through the fortified towns and cities in his neighborhood. But especially to discover the industrial heritage of the countries of immigration, "another as Marseille's Old Port and the Good Mother," she said.

Studying the cities 

She tells the sugar industry, silos, soap, oil mills, the courées the trail and rare herbs, but especially popular cities and their inhabitants. "When you cross a group, I am recognized as one that is interested in cities," laughs this slender fiftieth anniversary. There is always curious who come to ask what they do or aggregate group to tell their stories. "These walks are also a human adventure: it allowed me to meet people in my neighborhood," still provides Virginia Lombard.

She accompanied them any kind of curious: Bordelais, Parisians or Belgians followers solidarity tourism, EDF employees sent by their works councils or "artists walkers" recommended by the French Federation of hiking. And many former. Those back to the neighborhood where they grew up and are just "émotionnés" when they review warehouses and alleys where they ran.

Homes bobos 

After a big boom due to the events of Marseille cultural capital, the pace has slowed visits. Virginia is improvised archivist photos and stories that came entrust. This January morning, she went to the archives to find traces of the houses Castor, this self-build movement born after the second world war that sowed many workers houses on hills above the port.

In his eyes, the B & B is an annex. It hosts monthly a couple in his decorated bohemian apartment. "No more, to stay in the fun," agrees that precarious living on 500 euros a month. On the site, the twenty proposed by the association rooms feature other promises: that the comfort of renovated country houses or villas with swimming pool, the charms of the garden a beekeeper or a former lighthouse ... "C 'Yes, there was a lot of sores but they are nice, "smiles the planter.

To change the image of neighborhoods 

While trying not to appear as the curious who cross the cities to tourists, she campaigned for more units are put to work at the heart of so many HLM on these heights. But until now subletting is prohibited in social housing. The association has contacted some donors to try to ease their rules. No answer yet. "It would make a small income residents of neighborhoods and allow to change their image," insists Virginia. She already has the name of the ride that would accompany this installation: "land of the cities."