– The company marketing brochure Make Paris Easy
– The Paris Committee Sales Handbook
– The Paris for You! guidebook
– The Paris city map guide
– Business tourism guide Meeting in Paris – Se réunir à Paris
– The Paris Gourmand Good Food Guide
– Five timeless posters
– An original promotional film
– The Paris Hébergements Accommodation Guide

These public and professional publications are supplemented and updated each year. With their original and elegant graphic design, they transmit a warm and vibrant image of the City of Paris.

Publications to download

Make Paris Easy

This company marketing brochure, published in French and English, presents the destination and the services provided by the Bureau for professionals: journalists, tour operators, corporate players, company events organisers and association congresses, Parisian professionals, etc. The brochure also sets out the missions of the Bureau and the products and services available.

Paris Committee Sales Handbook

The Paris Committees bring together tourism professionals who work alongside the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau to promote the Paris destination abroad. The Sales Handbook — published only in English — details the services offered and the contact details of each Committee partner.

Paris for You! 2008-2009

This 136-page guidebook, published in English and French, suggests 13 walks that will take you on a discovery tour of the city, its different neighbourhoods, at the pace of life of their inhabitants (mythical Paris, trendy Paris, undiscovered Paris, etc.). And whatever you may feel like doing – seeing a show, shopping, relaxing, etc. -, you will get the most out of the French capital with the 12 thematic sections that alternate with the walks. Click on the corresponding link to download the walks or tips that interest you.

Paris city map guide 2008-2009

As a complement to Paris for you!, the Paris city map guide is a useful resource for discovering the capital. It is available in ten languages: French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. It includes a detailed map of the city as well as a metro map, plus 16 sections of practical information. Only these information sections — Tourist Information, Services, Health and Safety, Transport, Culture, Accommodation, Restaurants, Business Tourism, Walking, Entertainment and Shopping — are available to download. This resource is an essential reference for a successful stay in Paris.

Paris Gourmand Good Food Guide 2008-2009

This 124-page, bilingual French/English, guide is devoted to gastronomy – a renowned aspect of Parisian life. The Paris Gourmand Good Food Guide lists all the members of the PCVB in the gastronomy sector.
In the first section, restaurants are classified by type of cooking (“gourmet dining”, “classic and regional fare”, “fooding trends”, “culinary world tour”, “everyday food”). A second section presents places and companies which combine tourism and gastronomy: cabarets, boats, caterers, stores and tearooms, catering schools, etc.

In its 2008-2009 edition, this (French/English) directory, updated every two years, details the products and services of 361 Parisian suppliers:
– congress and exhibition centres;
– hotels with meeting rooms;
– meetings spaces, receptions and events venues (museums, monuments and chateaux, boats, restaurants and cabarets);
– professional congress organisers and incoming agencies;
– specialist services (caterers, transport, entertainment, translation, etc.).

Consult the website convention.parisinfo.com in order to benefit from the Bureau’s expertise and network of contacts. The venue finder (a one-of-a-kind search engine) makes it possible to identify the ideal location and suppliers for organising an event.


Five timeless posters

The Bureau publishes a collection of five elegant posters of mythical and more offbeat images of Paris, for displaying in agencies, offices and on exhibition stands.



An original promotional film

An innovative take on the French capital, featuring dreamlike soft-focus images. This 5-minute film, made for the PCVB by the artist Nataliya Lyakh, is used during trade shows, conventions, promotional events etc.



Paris Hébergements Accommodation Guide 2008-2009

This 316-page, bilingual French/English, accommodation guide lists some 1,500 approved and classified establishments in Paris and Ile-de-France, members of the PCVB. The establishments are listed by type:
– hotels,
– apartment hotels,
– reservation centres,
– bed and breakfasts,
– youth accommodation,
– campsites and open-air accommodation,
– furnished accommodation rentals.
Tourism professionals will find addresses and contact numbers for each of the establishments together with prices.
New: in addition to Tourism & Handicap labelled establishments, the 2008 guide also lists establishments that are committed to fulfilling environmental and ecological criteria through the ISO 14001 international specification for environmental management, the Haute Qualité Environmentale or HQE (High Quality Environmental standard), the Green Key, and Ecolabel

Also see
Paris, leading tourist destination
The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau, taking an active role in Parisian tourism
Paris in figures