It is perhaps the size and imposing of the only conception and construction of a monument, which enlishes the visitor and make him an easy victim of all kinds of thieves and scammers. Because according to a study released Monday by the Bounce Luggage Management Company among TripAdvisor users, most travelers who have fallen victim to fraud in recent years have identified as a geographical location of the incident and the beautiful gardens of the Areos on the Seine.
“The negative advertisement, which is the result of the research, is a blow to the Eiffel Tower,” says the reporter of the Le Parisien newspaper, Flavian Ganiepen. Because of the more than 143,000 fascinating users of the TripAdvisor travel and restaurants who took part in the survey, 548 have linked their visit to the 312 -meter -high, iron tower with a negative experience of theft or other fraud.
It is noteworthy that the world’s Eiffel Tower is by far the monument in which most are recorded in foreign visitors, since in the next one is New York Square, the events are only 171, and in the third at risk, in the giant Mausoleum Taz. Mahal in India, the reports reported in the investigation are 123.
The crowding
However, if one calculates the ratio of attacks per visitors, the Eiffel Tower is not the most dangerous monument in the world. Most of the numerical attacks are recorded there, but this is because the number of tourists who visit the tower are much higher compared to other monuments around the world. With the criterion of the incidence of attacks per thousands of visitors, most attacks (0.86%) were recorded in the enclosed neighborhood of Intramuros in Manila, Philippines.
The forbidden city in Beijing (0.55%) and the famous Petra in Jordan (0.50%) are followed in second place. At the Eiffel Tower, which comes fourth in the ranking on the basis of thousands of visitors, they said they had fallen victim to fraud 0.38% of all survey participants.
The crowd facilitates the action of thieves and all sorts of scammers. “Due to its popularity and the cosmos of visitors, this Paris tourist attraction has the highest number of reports for individual fraud,” Bounce’s survey said, which states that most events are thefts of objects.
That is, one would say that the Eiffel Tower is the place of “work” that wallets prefer. However, there are many cases of organized “Papatzidis” groups, with chili and other security personnel who manage to face and escape the many police and municipal cameras.
However, police authorities in the city announced last November that thefts and frauds were significantly reduced in the city of light. They declined by about 44% in the period from 2023 to 2024, despite the cosmos of the Olympic Games last summer in Paris. The exploitation company of the Eiffel Tower (SETE) refused to comment on the data and give details of the reduction of crime, writes the “Parisien” reporter.
The crime
In any case, the French capital appears as the most precarious, according to a Bounce study. Due to the total number of tourists who visit it every year, Paris is emerging as the most dangerous city city in the world. Thus, 2,430 of the nearly 160,000 visitors to the French capital (1.52%), who participated in the Bounce survey, said they were victims of theft or cheating.
But again, if you take into account the total number of visitors received by cities in the world and the frequency of attacks, the Latvian capital, Riga, is the city with the highest crime. Thus, out of the 3,800 participants in the Bounce survey visited through TripAdvisor Riga, 2.53% reported that the victim of theft or cheating fell.
Others see, others are photographing
The Eiffel Tower is the leading attraction of the French capital in number of visitors, as anyone who goes to Paris (and not for the first time) is not thought of failing to pass through the Areos to admire or even climb his 1,665 -step stairs ( Okay, with 36.10 euros it can go up with the elevator to the top if it can wait for hours in a row).
And yet, Tour Eiffel is not the most photographed attraction in Paris! This showed a research conducted on the occasion of the last year’s Olympics and based on the photos posted on Instagram visitors of the city.
“The hashtags, the keywords that the internet users add to the photos and videos posted on social networks are a gold mine for statisticians,” Le Parisien writes. Thus, out of the 79,000 tourists who visit the French capital every day of the year, most post photos of the Sacré-Cœur church on top of Montmartre’s hill.
The second most photographed monument in Paris is the Arch of Triumphant and in third place in foreigners’ photographic preferences is the Ilissian Avenue, which also leads from the city center to Charles de Gaulle Square, which has the arch at the center.
The Eiffel Tower comes fourth in the photos or videos posted on Instagram by visitors to the city of Light, followed by the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret, the notre-dame cathedral, the Bastille Square, the Louvre Museum and also the Louvre Museum Parc des princes stadium.
Here are obviously supporters of the Paris Saint-Germain football team who visit the capital to watch a team of the team and not from visitors to “general tourist interests”, as the French newspaper notes. Not even from fans who flocked to the Olympics, you would add, as the central stage of the games was Stade de France in the suburb of Saint-Deni in Paris. Stade de France also has 80,000 seats, while the Parc des Princes has 48,000 seats.
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