Tourism in Nord-Pas-De-Calais: Evaluation and recommendations

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The Nord-Pas-de-Calais is located in the north of France (Appendix 2) and is bound by three borders, the Sea, a border with Belgium and a border with the French area Picardy (Appendix 3).

The surface of the territory is 12 414 km2 i.e. 2.3% of the French territory. Its littoral edge is important: 140 km. The area is located between the 50ème and the 51st parallel, i.e. the same latitude as Cracow, Prague, the north of China, Vancouver.

The regional climate does not present great originality. The Nord-Pas-De-Calais is subject to the same influences as the major part of France, but its more septentrional position makes time more unstable, explaining a weaker sunning, less than 1600 hours per year. The dangers related to the weather are not very frequent: glazes and snow seldom persist (18 days of snow on average) while nebulosity gene visibility 81 days per annum in Lille (against 28 in Calais). It is the wind, the last large influence on the regional climate, which is very often given the responsibility to sweep the sky, and this in all the directions.

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[...] But in 1982, the laws of decentralization increased the capacities of the French local communities appreciably. It was a new hope whose limits appeared quickly vis-a-vis with the disengagement of the State and the extent of the problems to be faced marked the beginning of an extraordinary series of great work which led to the introduction of the TGV North-Europe, Eurostar, Thalys and the Channel tunnel. At same time, the local dynamisms were structured to create the conditions of a controlled development. [...]

[...] Tourism in Nord-Pas-De-Calais Evaluation and recommandations SOMMAIRE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I. GEOGRAPHY AND DEMOGRAPHY 2. Demography 1. Geography II. DESTINATION 1. Attractions 2. Access 3. Amenities and Ancillary services 4. The community 5. [...]

[...] It is the wind, the last large influence on the regional climate, which is very often given the responsibility to sweep the sky, and this in all the directions Demography With a little less than four million inhabitants, Nord-pas-de-Calais is the third most populated area in France of the French population) and was for a long time, economically and demographically, one of the most dynamic of the Hexagon. In spite of the recent attenuation of this phenomenon, it remains one of the youngest areas: the birth rate borders 16,6% and less than 25 years accounting for 41% of the population. Nord-Pas-de-Calais has a density of 322,7 hab./km² in 2004. [...]

[...] These are the frontier areas like Picardy as well the people of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Area. - The priority markets They are "the large" absolutely fundamental markets for the economy of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. They are the Paris area (proximity and volume), Belgium, Luxembourg, England and Germany. - The markets of widening For the moment these markets are weak but represent a potential for tomorrow, in particular within the framework of an Eurorégionale approach: north of Italy, Scandinavia and other French area (west of France). [...]

[...] Thus, it appears necessary to develop sustainable tourism and to create a tourist offer of quality, optimizing the image and the notoriety of the natural reserves. Hydrotherapy The town of Saint Amand-les-Eaux has the only thermal spa in the north of Paris. This undeniable asset constitutes a potential of exceptional development. An ambitious policy of valorisation of the station and its image should support the establishment of new activities to develop loyalty of the existing customers and to collect new markets. [...]