Publications to download

Paris For You! 2011-2012

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 "Grand Paris", a page is 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 2011-2012

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

Visiting Paris 2011-2012

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.
28 pages, French-English.

Paris city map-guide 2011-2012

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 Shopping Book 2012

The bilingual Paris shopping guide with more than 250 addresses of shops, concept stores, flagships, department stores and other designer haunts. Six “shopping itineraries” illustrate the latest trends. For each, the selection of shops is completed by a choice of cultural sites and restaurants, cafes or tea rooms. Also featured: shopping arcades, discount designer stores, discount brand stores etc.
98 pages, French-English

Paris Committee Sales Manual 2012

The Paris Committees bring together tourism professionals who work alongside the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau to promote the Paris destination abroad. The Sales Manual — published only in English — details the services offered and the contact details of each of the 71 Committee partners.

Incoming agencies 2011-2012

This booklet lists incoming agencies that are members of the Bureau and promotes their activities and specific qualities in order to facilitate the work of French and foreign tourism professionals in their approach to Paris as a destination. Incoming travel agencies have a perfect knowledge of the French capital but also of the particularities of the markets they work on, as well as an expertise and resources that enable them to organize all types of events for individuals and/or groups.
40 pages, French-English.

Paris, an accessible city

This practical mini-guide helps French and foreign disabled visitors in the organization of their trip and throughout their stay in Paris. It describes where to find information on adapted tourism services for disabled people (museums, monuments, accommodation, recreational and cultural activities etc.) as well as the essential services and facilities for organizing a successful adapted stay (transport, medical services etc.). So that everyone can enjoy Paris.

Tourism in Paris - key figures 2010

It presents the tourism data of the previous year, organized by theme: transportation, accommodation, hotel performance, leisure and culture, tourist expenditure, business tourism, etc.
36 pages, French-English.

For your information, other material completes this range of publications:

We 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.

Accommodation in Paris 2011

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.
14 pages, French-English.