"Tourism is an industry that involves transporting people who would be better off at home, to places that would be better off without them." (Jean Mistler)

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This series was carried out in 2004 on emblematic places in the capital at a time when mass tourism was still mainly carried out in the North, before the countries making up the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) emerged on a massive scale.

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In 2015, the nature of tourism changed both in number and quality: more than 34 million people visited the French capital, the equivalent of more than one visitor per second. The world's leading tourist destination, Paris is penetrated by a top three of British, followed by Americans and now Chinese, whose number of visitors is increasing exponentially.

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Good news, it will soon no longer be necessary to go abroad to see the world as it comes to us.