PARIS -- France is reaping a fat reward by tapping into the potentially massive Chinese tourism market under a special access provision extended to the European Union but not Canada.
Every day, thousands of Chinese tourists, who typically stay in two-star hotels in Paris's suburbs, come by the busloads into the heart of the world's most popular tourist destination to shop and take pictures of each other in front of landmarks like the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower.
