Several dozen Paris tour guides protested outside the Louvre museum

News24xx.com - Several dozen Paris tour guides protested outside the Louvre museum calling for more support from the government as the pandemic has greatly damaged the tourism sector.

Despite France’s announcement in May of measures worth 18bl euros ($19bl) to support the sector, tour guides such as Margot Schmitz said these funds were not reaching her category. "The government is turning a deaf ear," Schmitz told Reuters ahead of the protest. "We have no voice."

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The Louvre - which reopened on Monday for the first time in four months - said it was expecting 7,000 visitors on its first day, but after an initial flurry managers anticipate that numbers will only be a fifth of pre-outbreak levels.