Chinese billionaire, Li Jinyuan, the chairman Tiens Group Company, has
taken 6,400 of his staff on a 4-day holiday to France which finished
with a world-record breaking human chain in Cote D'Azur. According to Mail Online,
Jinyuan, 57, (pictured right in white) booked up 140 hotels in Paris
where the group visited the Louvre and various cultural sites in one of
the world's most famous and revered cities.
The huge group of tourists then made their way to the glamorous Cote D'Azur, where they booked 4,760 rooms in 79 four-and five-star hotels in Cannes and Monaco. The 6,400 employees arranged themselves to spell out the phrase 'Tiens' dream is Nice in the Cote d'Azur', to celebrate 20 years of partnership between the Chinese company and the French region.
France is expected to be 33million Euros better off thanks to the all-expenses-paid staff trip.
The group were expected to spend 13million euros in Paris, home of the Eiffel Tower, the Arc De Triomph and The Louvre.
Nice was expected to be 20million better
off thanks to the visit - and many of the guests stayed in hotels
Cannes, where the famous film festival is to be held next week, and
Monaco, long known for being a playground of the rich and famous. Li Jinyuan, 57, is listed as a
billionaire on the Forbes rich list and took more than half of his staff
to the region to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the founding of
the company.