The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau was set up at the joint initiative of the Paris City Hall and the Paris Chamber of Commerce as a non-profit making association, ruled by the French law of July 1st 1901. It has three major roles:

Welcome, Information and Promotion of the capital

The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau represents the City of Paris as well as “département 75” (one of France's 95 metropolitan départements), which also means fulfilling the task of “Comité Départemental de Tourisme” (Departmental Tourist Board).

›› It advises on tourist structures, welcomes a high number of guests, in its capacity as European, if not world capital of tourism (Paris is host to more than 24 million visitors every year).

›› It represents the vital force of tourism in Paris for the different institutions and administrative committees concerned.

In the areas of tourism and leisure, as in business tourism, the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau works in close collaboration with tourist-trade professionals and institutions on joint ventures.

At public and professional trade exhibitions, in France and abroad, the role of the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau is to give prospective visitors a vivid image of their destination in the face of ever keener competition.

In the same way, the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau organises welcome visits for travel agents in order to suggest a more intense, even different programming of the capital.

Finally, welcome visits for journalists contribute to the promotion of products and to the image of PARIS as a destination.

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