French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that non-EU visitors will pay a higher entrance fee to visit the Louvre, the world's most-visited museum, which is plagued by overcrowding and outdated facilities.

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce possibly hundreds of millions of euros in renovation work for the Louvre

The world-famous needs a massive injection of cash if it is to cope with visitor numbers, the museum's president has said