The awkward truth about tourists in Paris

As Parisians slowly return from their long summer breaks, locals are beginning to do what they do best: complaining. Montmartre, one of Paris’s most visited neighbourhoods, has become the centre of a growing backlash against overtourism. ‘Behind the postcard: locals mistreated by the Mayor’, reads one banner in English. Another declares: ‘Montmartre residents resisting’. The neighbourhood around Sacré-Cœur, once Paris’s bohemian hilltop village, says it’s had enough.

Tourists aren’t destroying Paris, they’re underwriting it. If Montmartre wants to see what life looks like without so-called ‘Disneyfication’, it should try a weekend without tourist euros

With 11 million visitors a year, more than the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre has become the prime example of what locals call the ‘Disneyficat