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...

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,...

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and desires, it is a pleasure that many French metropolitan yet ignorant, wrongly considered that river tourism is too outdated, leaving foreign visitors (80% customer) all the happiness of this charming...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...