A state of emergency operates in the country due to the high risk of terror attacks, but UK holidaymakers are ignoring the risks and getting cheap flights from France and Germany – where travel bans are not in place.
Flights to the capital Tunis are also still running from Heathrow for essential travel and rooms in four and five-star hotels can be booked online for as little as £35-a-night.
Holidaymakers who have made the trip are leaving glowing reviews of their Tunisian hotels on TripAdvisor.
A traveller from Gainsborough in Lincolnshire who has holidayed at the four-star Hotel Marahaba Beach – close to where Tunisian gunman Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 tourists –twice in the last year and rated security “first class”.
The beachside resort is offering rooms for as little as £36 a night in September.
She said: “It was great to be able to return again to Marhaba Beach hotel, in October 2016 and again in March 2017, after an absence of almost 16 months.” 
She continued: “I have had numerous holidays here over the past 18 years and am happy to say it has still retained its lovely welcoming atmosphere.
“The people are very friendly and security is first class – in all the years I have been visiting, three times each year, I have never felt safer in the hotel, and out, than I did this time.”
Another tourist from Halifax, West Yorkshire, made a trip to the nearby Hannibal Palace, a short drive from the scene of the 2015 attack.
Rooms at the hotel, which includes a nightclub, tennis courts and a wellness centre are being sold for as little as £23 a night for a twin room.
They said of their trip: “As a single traveller, I enjoyed my stay immensely end-Jan/early Feb 2017.
“Hotel was clean wherever I went, staff were attentive and the fantastic choice at breakfast and the indoor pool alone were worth the great rate I paid.”
A fellow Brit from Exeter stayed further up the coast at the Sentido Phenicia said that his return to the area felt like a homecoming.
He said: “Excellent welcome back by the whole of the Phenicia Team when I visited the end of March.
“Nothing had changed it was like coming home.
“The restaurant, reception and animation all provide a first-class service that has never been matched in any other destinations I have visited – I cannot wait to return soon.”
Many of the guests who had left reviews revealed that they were planning to visit again this year.
But the Foreign and Commonwealth Office still carries strongly-worded guidance against visiting Tunisia – which shares a border with ISIS stronghold Libya.
The FCO says: “A state of emergency is in effect in Tunisia, imposed after a suicide attack on a police bus on 24 November 2015.
“Terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in Tunisia. Security forces remain on a high state of alert in Tunis and other places.
“Since the terrorist attack in Sousse in June 2015, the Tunisian government has put in place additional security measures, but the intelligence and threat picture has developed considerably, including in neighbouring Libya.”
Tourists are also warned that their travel insurance may not be valid while the FCO continues to warn against travel to the country.
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