Only 10 000 people attending each day the castle, against 30 000 in normal times. The establishment has lost 45 million euros from the containment.
The attendance of Versailles “collapses” in the absence of foreign tourists, with only 10 000 visitors per day at this time, which is three times less than usual, announced Wednesday that Catherine Pégard, president of the public establishment of the château de Versailles.
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“By day, we are around 10 000, more during the weekend, less during the week, because our visitors are almost exclusively French. We saw little of foreigners, Germans, Dutch, some Italians,” said Catherine Pégard on the radio station RTL.
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45 million euros loss from the containment
usually, the castle is visited by 80% of the foreign home to 30 000 people per day during this period, she said. “Financially, we found not at all,” she lamented, adding that the institution has reopened to the public on June 6 had “lost $ 45 million” euros from the containment.
“It gives us a lot to reflect on what we need to be, what we must do, and that is our model which if I dare say, has collapsed”, she said, recalling that “throughout history, the closure of the castle happened only once, at the time of the declaration of the Second world war”.
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She, however, assured “not to make savings” on the staff, both for the approximately 1000 employees of the castle that for the 20 000 other people to “work around” of the site. The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, for its part, has seen its attendance divided by four in July, with 10 000 visitors per day, a level however, in line with the forecasts of its management.
