Paris gets safer for tourists from Asia

Robberies of Chinese and Japanese tourists in Paris decreased significantly in the first nine months of this year, the police in Paris said on Wednesday.

"Robberies committed against Chinese tourists have dropped 25 percent in the first nine months this year, illustrating the decline in this type of crime even though the number of visitors from China has increased by 50 percent for the last three years," the police department said.

Last year, for the first time, Chinese nationals surpassed Japanese as the largest group of Asian tourists visiting Paris. About 880,000 Chinese tourists visited Paris last year, almost double the figure from the previous year, according to the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau.