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 French-at-a-touch.com

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                       An English Language Internet Directory
French-at-a-touch.com is a proprietary 'Internet Directory' for everything French.  It provides geographical, historical, economic, tourist [with maps] and weather information about, and links to, the French speaking countries of Algeria, Belgium [la Wallonie], Canada [Québec], France, the Ivory Coast, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco, Senegal, Switzerland [la Suisse Romande], Tunisia and Zaire.   

Currently, our information about France is the most complete.  Our coverage includes an outline history of France and detailed historical information about major French cities, its 95 départements, its 22 regions and its overseas territories [Outre-Mer]. 

The Directory's Categories
For each of the French regions, we have constructed a comprehensive categorized directory of business, amusement and governmental web sites that covers our visitors’ interests from A to Z.  A sampling of just SOME of the alphabetically categorized topics includes:  'Amusement Parks', 'Architectural/Historical Sites', 'Basic Travel', 'Businesses', 'Chateaux', 'Print & Broadcast Media', 'French Schools', a myriad of 'Gourmet' topics, 'French Language Schools', 'French Courses & Exercises', 'Lodging [Apartments, B&Bs, Chateaux, Hostels and Hotels]', 'Maps', 'Museums', 'Real Estate', 'Restaurants', 'Travel to France', 'Tourist Information', 'Transportation Sources' and 'Zoos'. 

The Audience
By joining with French-at-a-touch, you have the potential of reaching a world of English speaking people who are interested in the French language and the French speaking countries.  You will also reach a vast audience of bilingual readers.  A high percentage of French speaking Europeans [from Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Monaco and Switzerland] read and/or speak English.  In North America, there are 9 million people in Québec and another 1.9 million in the United States [as of the 1990 US census] who are French Speakers and who read, write and speak both languages.  Add to these almost 11 million, the tens of millions of North Americans who have studied French in high school and college [see: French, the Most Practical Foreign Language, by Richard Shryock, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]. 

But, North America is not alone in the love of the French language, its culture and its civilization.  French is a popular second language throughout the English speaking world.  Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, South Africa and India have huge enrollments in high school and college French classes.  In Holland, Sweden and Denmark, where virtually the whole of the urban population also speaks English, there are also millions that have pursued the study of French. 

The French government claims that France is the most popular tourist destination in the world. In 2000, 75.6 million tourists visited France; by contrast, the US hosted 52.7 million foreign tourists in 2000.  According to the US Census, the French were the US's 5th greatest source of tourists.  Foreign tourists spent 215 billion French francs [32.78 billion euros, 30 billion dollars] in France in 2000. 

Foreigners visiting Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco, Morocco and Tunisia were also in the tens of millions.  Of these, over 90 million travelers, considerably more than one third were from countries where English is either the primary or a very strong secondary language.  French hotel reservation statistics indicate that 21% of all tourist, visiting France were British while 13% were American.

French-at-a-touch has visitors from all of the above mentioned countries who are searching for travel information, gourmet products, French language courses, etc.  For the most part, these are people that want to enjoy a touch of a francophone experience, be it in a French speaking country or at home.  They are interested in French fashions, champagne, foie gras, and the charm of travel in a French speaking country.  These Francophiles constitute a large, virtually untapped market that French-at-a-touch has access to.

Using French-at-a-touch
French-at-a-touch.com facilitates access to this market through its fast, efficient, informative and user friendly design.  In facilitating this access, we have built a reputation for quality content.  We have also eliminated the hassle of visitors having to go through dozens of pages, fighting splashy ads, cutesy animations and irritating 'pop-up' ads, hoping to find their subject matter.  Whether our visitors are planning a business trip, a vacation or attendance at a French language school, they quickly and effortlessly find the information and links they are looking for. 

At French-at-a-touch.com, we have done everything to provide a pleasant experience for our visitors.  This has been done with a view towards their return visits.  We have even employed advanced internet technology to prevent unscrupulous sites from holding visitors, from our site, captive and forcing them to deactivate their browsers in order to escape their clutches. 

A Quality Web Site
Many major American universities have linked to French-at-a-touch, as have universities in the U.K. and other countries.  And, pages in French-at-a-touch.com have been ‘quality ranked’ by search engines, confirming the fact that the site is packed with superior content.  

Since French-at-a-touch.com is perceived as a quality site, we have been able to build a following, among our visitors, that is translated into over 1,750,000 hits per month; and growing daily.

To maintain a high level of excellence, we are looking for honest, capable partners and advertisers that market quality products that are backed by dependable service.  We do not accept adult, 'pop-up' or animated advertising. 

Our Advertising Programs & Site Partner Rates
We invite you to review http://www.french-at-a-touch.com and to join this new and innovative French web directory.  Production information is outlined on the Production Specifications page. For more information concerning our advertising programs, please click on Advertising, Page Sponsorship Advertising, Button Advertising, and Site Partner Rates.