Accessibility in Paris

Paris is a city with incomparable culture and heritage, both traditional and modern.
However, this often imposes constraints or major difficulties for accessibility, with access points that are complicated or restrictive for disabled people.

Of note are the efforts for greater accessibility made by the Paris City Council in terms of accommodation, transport, roads, access to culture and other leisure activities … Nevertheless, major constraints remain.

In the same way, since 1997, the Secretary of State for Tourism has undertaken to raise the awareness of tourism professionals and to mobilize them in order to make holidays more accessible to disabled people.


In 2001, a voluntary initiative was undertaken on a national level, to provide labels relative to the four types of disability: physical, visual, hearing, mental. The Tourisme & Handicap label seeks to give reliable information to clients with specific requirements, on the accessibility of tourist sites and facilities.

Independently of this label, the recent law of 11 February 2005 and its different decrees seeks a generalized accessibility, regardless of the type of disability: physical, sensorial, mental. In particular, the regulations fix the measures destined to make new or already existing Establishments Receiving the Public (ERP) and Installations Open to the Public (IOP) accessible to disabled people.