ABSTRACT
The Le Marais district is one of Paris' most dynamic tourist areas. Tourists were one of the last populations to arrive in Le Marais, but today, tourism characteristics, visitor numbers and impact play a crucial role in the district's urban morphology. Le Marais has also inspired the most academic works in France on residential gentrification and to a lesser extent, on commercial gentrification. This chapter links Le Marais' tourisimification to its heritagization and to commercial and residential gentrification. It explores the relationship between super-gentrification and tourism. The chapter also introduces the concept of hyper-tourismification which is a second stage of tourism development characterized by an extremely sophisticated and high-end tourism product. Le Marais is a 'new' district built in seventeenth century on Left Bank of River Seine. The private mansions eventually fell into disrepair and in the mid-nineteenth century, small industrial businesses moved into the space, occupying the yards and gardens and contributing to the densification of the urban blocs.
