Publications to download

Make Paris Easy

This company marketing brochure, published in French and English, presents the destination and the services provided by the Bureau for professionals: journalists, tour operators, corporate players, company events organisers and association congresses, Parisian professionals, etc. The brochure also sets out the missions of the Bureau and the products and services available.

Paris city map-guide 2009-2010

Full of practical information for discovering Paris and organizing your stay: a large map of the city and a metro map (on the paper version) and 16 sections with information on tourist information points, services, transport, accommodation, eating out, culture, going out, parks and gardens, shopping, business tourism ... not forgetting advice in the event of difficulties.
The map-guide is available in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean).

Paris For You! 2009-2010

A guide for discovering Paris district by district: 13 walks feature top sites - Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, Louvre, Champs-Elysées, Montmartre, Orsay, La Villette, etc. - and places to discover. Alternating with the walks, 12 thematic sections provide information on Parisian life: culture, shopping, gastronomy, artistic creation, nightlife, parks and gardens ... And for discovering the Paris metropolis, a page is now devoted to each of the three départements that border Paris (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne).
124 pages, English or French.

Good Food Guide 2009-2010

Parisian gastronomy in all its diversity! This bilingual guide presents a selection of restaurants and cafes listed according to their location and style: «gourmet dining», «classic French cooking», «brasseries and bistros», «inventive and trendy», «world cooking», «everyday food». The guide also presents cabarets, lunch and dinner cruises, racecourse restaurants, shops and tea rooms, cooking and wine classes, and some Parisian food markets.
124 pages, French-English

Paris Shopping Book 2009

The bilingual Paris shopping guide with more than 200 addresse of shops, concept stores, flagships, department stores and other designer haunts. Five «shopping itineraries» illustrate the latest trends. For each, the selection of shops is completed by a choice of 4 cultural sites and 6 restaurants, cafes or tea rooms. Also featured here, shopping arcades, discount designer stores, discount brand stores, etc.
96 pages, French-English

Accommodation in Paris 2009-2010

This practical bilingual mini-guide helps French and foreign visitors to organize their stay in Paris: it presents different types of accommodation, categories and labels; it explains how to book accommodation and gives a list of the booking centres that are members of the Visitors Bureau.
12 pages, French-English

Paris se visite 2009

This bilingual booklet lists interpreter-guides, lecturer-guides and companies specializing in cultural or thematic tours of Paris. On foot, by boat, by sightseeing coach, by bicycle, by air-balloon ... not forgetting ideas for discovering gastronomy, oenology, shopping, behind-the-scenes, etc.
24 pages, French-English.

Paris Committee Sales Handbook

The Paris Committees bring together tourism professionals who work alongside the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau to promote the Paris destination abroad. The Sales Handbook — published only in English — details the services offered and the contact details of each Committee partner.

For information, other promotional material now completes this range of publications:

Meeting in Paris – Se réunir à Paris business tourism guide

In its 2008-2009 edition, this (French/English) directory, updated every two years, details the products and services of 361 Parisian suppliers:
– congress and exhibition centres;
– hotels with meeting rooms;
– meetings spaces, receptions and events venues (museums, monuments and chateaux, boats, restaurants and cabarets);
– professional congress organisers and incoming agencies;
– specialist services (caterers, transport, entertainment, translation, etc.).

Consult the website convention.parisinfo.com in order to benefit from the Bureau’s expertise and network of contacts. The venue finder (a one-of-a-kind search engine) makes it possible to identify the ideal location and suppliers for organising an event.


Four timeless posters

The Bureau publishes a collection of four elegant posters of mythical and more offbeat images of Paris, for displaying in agencies, offices and on exhibition stands.

Also see
Paris, leading tourist destination
The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau, taking an active role in Parisian tourism
Paris in figures