The Eiffel Towerone of the largest tourist attractions in the world, remained closed this Wednesday, December 27, due to a staff strike, indicated the monument operator.
The strike, called on the centenary of the death of engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s builder, is a protest against “the current management,” according to a statement from the CGT union.
The tower operator, SETE, is “going straight to the wall,” he added, warning of “an (economic) model that is too ambitious and unsustainable.”
The union denounces an “excessively ambitious and unsustainable” economic model due to an “undervaluation of the budgets for the monument’s works” and an “overvaluation of income” based on a goal “of 7.4 million visitors”, something never achieved until now.
The Eiffel Towerthe most famous monument in Paris, will receive 5.9 million visitors in 2022, the highest number since 2019. Built in 1889, For the World’s Fair in Paris, the Eiffel Tower quickly became the symbol of the French capital.
Its builder, the engineer Gustave Eiffel, was born on December 15, 1832 in Dijon and died on December 27, 1923, in Paris, at the age of 91.
Source: Larepublica
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