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"The French tourist officials make sure to monetize the Louvre for all they can." The access to the Louvre (permanent collection) is free for : everyone under

by Rasco 10y ago

"The French tourist officials make sure to monetize the Louvre for all they can." The access to the Louvre (permanent collection) is free for : everyone under 18 years old whatever the nationality, every resident of the European Economic Area (31 countries) under 25 years old, everyone under 26 years old whatever the nationality the Friday from 6 p.m. to 9:45 p.m., everyone the first sunday of each month between october and march and on july 14th, other specific groups of people, And it is 15€ for everyone else for a day. Not what I would call particularly excessive. http://www.louvre.fr/en/hours-admission/admission http://www.louvre.fr/en/hours-admission/admission The Louvre still relies mainly on public subvention (102 M€ in 2015) tickets bring ~65M€, private subventions ~12M€. But yes it surely brings people and has a good impact on the local economy.

luispedrocoelho 10y ago
The benefits to French GDP are not mainly from the tickets, but from the tourism-related revenue (hotel stays, restaurants, flights, &c). The official Paris tourist office has a picture of the Louvre on the top of its front page. Let me put it this way: if I say that google monetizes its search engine as much as it can, I don't mean it charges you to search.
- Rasco 10y ago
  "The benefits to French GDP are not mainly from the tickets, but from the tourism-related revenue (hotel stays, restaurants, flights, &c)." yes, you can infer that from the last sentence in my previous comment, but still, they do not monetize it as much as they can because they could have decided not to make the entrance free for the youngsters and they would make more money even if the number of young visitors decreases. The difference with the google search engine is if you are not willing to pay and so do not use the search engine then google won't make money at all from you whereas few people will decide no to go to Paris just because the Louvre entrance is not free.

by Rasco 10y ago

luispedrocoelho 10y ago

The benefits to French GDP are not mainly from the tickets, but from the tourism-related revenue (hotel stays, restaurants, flights, &c). The official Paris tourist office has a picture of the Louvre on the top of its front page. Let me put it this way: if I say that google monetizes its search engine as much as it can, I don't mean it charges you to search.

Rasco 10y ago
"The benefits to French GDP are not mainly from the tickets, but from the tourism-related revenue (hotel stays, restaurants, flights, &c)." yes, you can infer that from the last sentence in my previous comment, but still, they do not monetize it as much as they can because they could have decided not to make the entrance free for the youngsters and they would make more money even if the number of young visitors decreases. The difference with the google search engine is if you are not willing to pay and so do not use the search engine then google won't make money at all from you whereas few people will decide no to go to Paris just because the Louvre entrance is not free.