Boss treats 6,400 employees to French holiday

Is Li Jinyuan the world’s best boss? The billionaire owner of multinational giant Tiens Group whisked 6,400 of his employees away for a French vacation at a personal cost of £24million.

To celebrate the company’s 20^th anniversary, the 24^th richest person in China booked 140 hotels in Paris for over half of his 12,000 workers, who visited all the sites, including a trip to Cote d’Azur, where they ended the trip by taking a part in a world record attempt to create the longest ever ‘human-made phrase’: ‘Tiens’ dream is Nice in the Cote d’Azur’.

Tourism accounts for seven per cent of France’s GDP and in 2013 84.7million foreign tourists visited the country, making it the most popular destination in the world.