1
00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,680
Speaker 1: Catherine Field. Morning to you. Good morning mine. I'm reading

2
00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:05,840
Speaker 1: a lot about these Olympics, and I'm looking at occupancy

3
00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,799
Speaker 1: rights here Paris hotels eighty percent, which is below the

4
00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,719
Speaker 1: ninety percent for London in twenty twelve, ninety four percent

5
00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,400
Speaker 1: for Rio de Janeiro in twenty sixteen. What's gone wrong?

6
00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,759
Speaker 2: Mike? If I could find a hotel owner to tell

7
00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,279
Speaker 2: me he's got eighty percent occupancy, my job would be

8
00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,760
Speaker 2: so much easier. I have not met one that has

9
00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:30,520
Speaker 2: that much occupancy. They are lucky if they're getting seventy percent, Really, Mike,

10
00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,400
Speaker 2: it's I say, you know, thinking back, I think last

11
00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,280
Speaker 2: year when they originally came up with these completely bizarre

12
00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,440
Speaker 2: prices of eight hundred euros a night for a room,

13
00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,200
Speaker 2: and that was sort of, you know, the minimum price.

14
00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,600
Speaker 2: They've essentially just pushed themselves out of the market, pushed

15
00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,320
Speaker 2: tourists away. I think the other thing, Mike is security

16
00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:55,280
Speaker 2: is so intense in Paris, so anyone who was thinking

17
00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,560
Speaker 2: of coming here would now say, no, you cannot get

18
00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,400
Speaker 2: within about a kilometer of the Eiffel Tower. And whilst

19
00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,640
Speaker 2: she's beautiful to look out from a distance, it's also

20
00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,559
Speaker 2: quite nice to go and sit and have a look

21
00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,040
Speaker 2: and walk and perhaps even to visit the Eiffel Tower.

22
00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,160
Speaker 2: So you've got you know, there's dreadful combination MIC of

23
00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:17,959
Speaker 2: incredibly expensive hotels. You've got you can't get anywhere in

24
00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,440
Speaker 2: the center of Paris, and it's almost for people who

25
00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,720
Speaker 2: are living there a bit like lockdown because you have

26
00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:24,559
Speaker 2: to have a special pass to be able to get home.

27
00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,679
Speaker 1: Is this because of one just purely the Olympics, or

28
00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,680
Speaker 1: is it a French interpretation of security for the Olympics,

29
00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,959
Speaker 1: or it's genuinely needed and accepted by everybody.

30
00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,520
Speaker 2: It's for the opening ceremony MIC, it really is. And

31
00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,280
Speaker 2: this all came into play on the eighteenth of July.

32
00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,319
Speaker 2: And let's not forget that the opening ceremony isn't until

33
00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:49,240
Speaker 2: the twenty sixth of July. They are absolutely besides themselves

34
00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,480
Speaker 2: in nerves. They say they've got that forty five thousand police,

35
00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:58,960
Speaker 2: security and troops ready for that day. It is really

36
00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,920
Speaker 2: that they want to go. Well, just a couple of

37
00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,880
Speaker 2: hours ago, is that the lyse Pallace where Manuel Macron

38
00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,440
Speaker 2: was there with the IOC head Thomas Back and he said,

39
00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,520
Speaker 2: you guys, we thought we were crazy when we started

40
00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,200
Speaker 2: this idea of having it on the Seine, but now

41
00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,000
Speaker 2: we're going to do it. We're going to do it well,

42
00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,800
Speaker 2: and that's what they want, Mike. They realized this is

43
00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,240
Speaker 2: the zillion dollar tourist spot and that more people are

44
00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,920
Speaker 2: going to watch it on TV because they're going to

45
00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,200
Speaker 2: see this amazing show. They're going to see the sin,

46
00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,320
Speaker 2: they're going to see everything on their TV screens. And

47
00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,240
Speaker 2: this they're thinking of not just for the Olympics, but

48
00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,680
Speaker 2: also to tell people around the world, Hey, come to Paris.

49
00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:39,920
Speaker 1: Okay, is anyone going to swim in the scene and like,

50
00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:41,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think called the Triathlona. This is

51
00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:43,760
Speaker 1: a living work that aret you.

52
00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,680
Speaker 2: They say it's going to be okay, of course we

53
00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,600
Speaker 2: had last week the mayor of Paris went for a

54
00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,440
Speaker 2: dip there and they say that they for some reason, Mike,

55
00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:54,960
Speaker 2: all of a sudden it's come very clean, and that

56
00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,400
Speaker 2: the two bugs that they test for in the water

57
00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:02,040
Speaker 2: at the lowest rate they've been for sever all months. However,

58
00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,359
Speaker 2: they have let us know that if it's not that clean,

59
00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,320
Speaker 2: then the particularly the marathon swimmers will move out to

60
00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,320
Speaker 2: the east of Paris into the man region, which is

61
00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,280
Speaker 2: where the kayak king and the canoeing area is and

62
00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,680
Speaker 2: they'll be able to do their marathon swims there. But

63
00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,480
Speaker 2: they're pretty hopeful still make even if that river is

64
00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,800
Speaker 2: running very fast and still looks very swollen, super.

65
00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,560
Speaker 1: Quick, because you know, I'm concerned. You got a government.

66
00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,079
Speaker 2: Oh good heaven snow, No good, heaven Snow. They're still

67
00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,120
Speaker 2: arguing about who they're going to put forward as the

68
00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,640
Speaker 2: Prime minister. But we do have a Speaker of the House.

69
00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,840
Speaker 2: And everyone thinks that was a rigged vote because the

70
00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,720
Speaker 2: former Speaker of the House, which is one of the

71
00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,680
Speaker 2: original Emmanuel Macron appointees, was elected back to the post.

72
00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,040
Speaker 1: Okay, you go, I just confirmed once again. I'm out

73
00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,200
Speaker 1: of time. So it's my old discipline, just that I

74
00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:53,840
Speaker 1: wasn't making this up. The surfing for the Olympics is

75
00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:54,960
Speaker 1: in Tahiti, isn't it.

76
00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,320
Speaker 2: Tahiti is part of the French get.

77
00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,320
Speaker 1: I get that. But if I'm a surfer, so I'm

78
00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,680
Speaker 1: stuck on a boat in the middle of nowhere, miles

79
00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,920
Speaker 1: thousands of miles away from the actual event, I mean

80
00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:07,800
Speaker 1: that's weird, isn't it.

81
00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,680
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. What they're saying is there's always

82
00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,760
Speaker 2: surfing events this time of year in Tahiti, they know

83
00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,279
Speaker 2: they're going to get the surf. However, there are people

84
00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,760
Speaker 2: down in the southwest of France who have a lot

85
00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,719
Speaker 2: of surfers down there. That's some great waves down and birds.

86
00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:24,560
Speaker 2: They say it should have been there.

87
00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, all right. Nice to catch up, Catherine, Go

88
00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,880
Speaker 1: and see you next Tuesday. Catherine Field out of France.

89
00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,360
Speaker 2: Person For more from the mic Asking Breakfast, listen live

90
00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,359
Speaker 2: to news talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or

91
00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,320
Speaker 2: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.