Tour de France: a boon for tourism
The popular impact of the Tour de France continues unabated. Ten to 12 million spectators line the roadsides at each edition, 190 countries hosting the event for three weeks, and millions of euros in revenue for the stopover towns.
A passion for the roadsides, the month of July with the family, when vacation rhymes with the Tour de France . For twenty years, the David family has been screaming their lungs out, crisscrossing the country as the riders pass by. The first time Sylviane and Tintin, originally from Vichy (Allier), decided to follow the Grande Boucle, they fell into the pot. "The Tour is nothing but love, in every sense of the word," she said.
In 2025, their Tour de France will cover more than 2,000 km. A strict organization and a schedule to follow, but no matter, they wouldn't change their plan for the world. With the Tour de France and the arrival of thousands of French and foreign tourists, dozens of departments benefit. In a village east of Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), the peloton's passage has led to a revival, that of the reopening of a business especially for the occasion. The Tour de France is said to have an incomparable positive economic impact.
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