July 15th, 2010 | 
Author: The French government have unveiled a new multi-lingual tourist website, to coincide with the country’s national holiday, Bastille Day.
Tourists from around the world will be able to use the website before embarking on their impending French holiday, to find out what is going on around the country.
France.fr is available in English, German, Italian, Spanish and of course French. The government hope the site will be used not only by tourists, but also by the country’s residents needing practical information on a range of elements of French life.
The website will promote the country to tourists and provide information to those wanting to know more about studying, working, living and starting a business in France.
The new project, which is being managed by the Prime Minister’s office, will see the website continue to grow in the coming months. The website is expected to contain around 12,000 links to other online resources, which may be found useful. These include links to the country’s weather forecast office, Meteo France and to tourist offices in the country.
The website has launched today, as part of the country’s fête nationale celebrations. The day remembers the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison in Paris in 1789 and celebrations symbolise the uprising of the county’s modern state.
However, France’s English newspaper The Connexion reports that the country’s celebrations will be more low-key this year than in the past. Although the traditional Champs-Elysees parade will go ahead as usual, many other events including Nicolas Sarkozy’s garden party have been cancelled, due to the economic crisis.
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