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INNOVATING TO MAKE YOU PREFER PARIS
INNOVATING TO CARRY YOU FURTHER
INNOVATING TO RECONCILE GROWTH AND RESPONSIBILITY
PARIS IS WORTH A STOPOVER
Aéroports de Paris’ operates in an exceptional geographical location, at the heart of an attractive, rich and varied territory. This is its number one strength. EXCEPTIONALLY RICH AND VARIED Paris, including the surrounding Île-de-France region, is the world’s leading tourist destination for both leisure and business travellers, with more than 40 million visitors every year and an unparalleled cultural heritage. France’s leading economic region, Île-de-France is also one of Europe’s most important economic centres, and the most diversified, with companies in the agri-food, aeronautical, automotive, cosmetics, financial, pharmaceutical, biotech, 3D animation, digital services and other sectors. It has the highest concentration of corporate locations in the world after Tokyo, and is a top-tier European research and innovation centre, with high-tech clusters and 100,000 researchers. The three airports – Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly and Paris-Le Bourget – already host more than 1,000 companies and will be home to many more tomorrow when the Greater Paris Express metro comes into service and the CDG Express rail link connects Paris-Charles de Gaulle with central Paris in 20 minutes. EXCEPTIONAL LOCATION Twenty-five million people live within a 200km radius of the Paris airports. The majority of Western European cities are less than a two-hour flight away from the Paris airports. Aéroports de Paris thus covers an extensive business and leisure market, particularly in the point-to-point sector, and a significant connecting flights market. Nearly one in four passengers, or almost 22 million in 2014, is in transit. They are all potential customers for the shops, bars and restaurants whose service offering is oriented around “Paris, capital of design”.
An exceptional opportunity for economic diversification
Insight— with Élisabeth Le Masson, environment and territorial
relations division “THE GREATER ROISSY-LE BOURGET AND GREATER ORLY AIRPORT DOMAINS, STIMULATED BY THE PRESENCE OF THE AIRPORTS AND THE WORLDWIDE EMERGENCE OF A CONNECTED ECONOMY, ARE AMONG THE MOST ATTRACTIVE IN THE GREATER PARIS REGION. THEY OFFER AN EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION AND JOB CREATION FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS. TO STRENGTHEN AND PROMOTE THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF GREATER ROISSY, ALL PARTICIPANTS HAVE COME TOGETHER TO FORM THE HUBSTART PARIS REGION® ALLIANCE, WITH AÉROPORTS DE PARIS AS FOUNDING MEMBER.”
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