American Tourism to France off 40%

The EUobserver writes: '"Let's fall in love again", appeals the French tourist site, Francetourism.com, somewhat wistfully as statistics show an unprecedented decline in the country's tourists.' The French have seen a fall off from American, German, and Asian travelers. The Asian decline is attributed to SARS. The French ministry of tourism apparently attributes the decline in German tourists to a "loss of fondness" an then there are the Americans. So France tries the heavy sell in America. Good luck.