Normandy on D-Day, 70 years later

Each year, during the D-Day landings commemoration, the France region of Normandy sees tourism increase by as much as 20 to 30 percent.

Normandy is already France's richest region, welcoming as many as eight million visitors from June to September of each year, but now, during the one-week 70th anniversary of D-Day, tourists passionate about history are expected to pour in the region.

The region is the place where, in 1944, on June 6, approximately 160,000 Allied troops filled the beaches, skies and hills of Normandy in what would become the battle that would mark the beginning of the end for German troops.

70 years later, fewer and fewer survivors re-visit the site of so many fierce battles, where more than 3,000 of their comrades have given their lives.

The scene of Normandy on D-Day, 2014, is different, though. The hotels, restaurants, cafes and streets are now packed with tourists awaiting the over 400 events the region's officials have planned for them.