Eiffel Tower briefly closes after workers strike over female staff instructions

Paris’s Eiffel Tower remains a major focus of tourism, from luxury accommodations offering unobstructed views to unusual stories about visitors’ personal connections with the landmark. SO/ Paris, a luxury hotel in a repurposed 1960s government office building near the Marais and Île Saint-Louis, markets rooms with direct views of the tower and reflects growing interest in historically distinctive converted properties. Separately, Erika Eiffel, an American objectophile, held a commitment ceremony with the tower in 2007 and adopted its name, describing a longstanding emotional and romantic attachment to the monument. Another report says the Eiffel Tower briefly closed after workers struck over alleged instructions to remove female employees from their usual positions during a visit by a Hindu religious delegation, raising questions about gender equality and cultural accommodation in French public institutions.