St Pancras International offers a faster alternative when travelling to France, avoiding London's busy airports.
National Parks
7 million visitors a year come to see France's listed national parks that appeal to all kinds of people. The country has 9 in total, and they are all protected under a similar act to the U.K (“Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty”):
Cévennes National Park
Guadeloupe National Park
Guiana Amazonian Park
Mercantour National Park
Port-Cros National Park
Pyrenees National Park
Reunion National Park
Vanoise National Park
Theme Parks
There are approximately 100 amusement parks in France, such as:
The Bioscope environmental theme park, Alsace
Ecomusée d'Alsace, near Colmar, France's largest open-air museum
Eurodisney, Marne la Vallée, Paris
France Miniature, at Elancourt, west of Paris (replicas of France's major monuments)
The Futuroscope park, near Poitiers
Nigloland theme park, near Troyes, southern Champagne.
Parc Astérix, near Paris
Puy du Fou, historical theme park, Vendée
Sigean African safari park and nature reserve Languedoc.