Our French Ambition: The 2024 Olympic Games and the 2025 World Exhibition
Paris is the capital of France, but Paris has a universal dimension, because in Paris, everything is made for sharing: sharing our values, sharing our vision of the world, our heritage, sharing our way of life, our emotions, ideas and passions.
That is why French people definitely support Paris decision to be candidate for hosting two iconic events in the coming years: the Olympic and Paralympics Games in 2024, and the World Exhibition the year after. This is a great opportunity, for many reasons. The first reason is that France has launched its ambitious energy transition reform for a renewed sustainable country. These two projects will contribute to developing green, modern and sustainable infrastructure, in and around Paris, making sure that the investments needed for these two events to take place in the best conditions will benefit the capital, Parisians, the country as a whole and our foreign visitors.
The second reason is the push that these two events will give to the development of tourism. France is already the first destination for tourism in the world, having hosted 83M foreign visitors last year. Our country targets to host 100 M foreign visitors in 2020. But we want to do even more, as we like to promote the diversity, the dynamics and the beautifulness of our country. These two events will help a lot in achieving our goals.
The third reason is that hosting the 2024 Olympic and Paralympics Games and the 2025 World Exhibition is our way to stand up together against terrorism: terrorism cannot stop us from moving forward as we have always moved forward, defending our values, our love for sports and sharing our ambitions for the world. These two events are our new collective incentives to make France a Greater France.
