The Eiffel Towerone of the world’s largest tourist attractions, was closed on Wednesday for a staff strikeindicated the operator of the monument.
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 economic model) “overly ambitious and unsustainable” due to a “undervaluation of the monument works budgets” already one “overvaluation of income” based on a goal “7.4 million visitors”something never achieved until now.
The Eiffel Tower, the most famous monument in Paris, It received 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: Gestion
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