Day: March 13, 2018

One Tech Business Solutions and its CISCO partner at heart of digitalization

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One Tech Business Solutions (OTBS), Tunisian leader in IS integration, and its strategic partner CISCO presented, last Friday at a meeting with the press, the new technological trends in the digital and security field. The event provided the opportunity to highlight the close collaboration and efforts of One Tech Business Solutions to provide its customers with a quality support to meet all of their challenges in digitalization and security of their information systems. Digitalization had become the standard to be reached by the rise of new technologies and the democratization…

News Analysis: Tunisia attracts big hotel operators

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Tunisia’s tourism industry experienced several difficult years following a 2015 terror attack in which a gunman killed 38 people in Sousse — which followed a previous attack in March 2015 on a museum. STR reported it led to “significant” declines in RevPAR, which worsened after the Sousse attack that June, resulting in a 51.7% RevPAR drop for Q3 2015. With a number of new openings on the horizon and tourism metrics on the rise, Tunisia offers a blend of modernity and tradition in North Africa. However, in the three years…

Week in Review: Questions in Tunisia, and Switzerland returns stolen funds

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Tunisia’s transition is certainly chaotic, but it is also lively and resilient, as JusticeInfo.net showed this week. This country, last bastion of the Arab Spring, is questioning the future of its transitional justice processes, notably its Truth and Dignity Commission. “A few months from the end of the Commission’s work in December 2018, the question of what happens afterwards is recurrent”, writes JusticeInfo’s correspondent in Tunis Olfa Belhassine. With 60,000 victims’ cases registered at the Commission, the questions are many. What kind of transitional justice will there be in the period after the Truth…

IEMed – EuroMeSCo initiative on EU-Tunisia Relations

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A reflection on the future of EU-Tunisia relations is unfolding with the objective to adopt “partnership priorities” for 2018/2020 but also to think a longer-term perspective, Institut Europeu de Mediterrania (IEMed) said in its website. The IEMed and the Euro-Mediterranean Research, Dialogue, Advocacy (EuroMeSCo)  proposed to accompany this process with a “track II” initiative that will first materialise in the presentation of a study jointly drafted by four EU and 4 Tunisian experts, as it is reported in the website. The study will be presented in Brussels ahead of the EU-Tunisia…

Thomas Cook Launches Holidays and Flights to Tunisia from Belfast

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Thomas Cook has launched summer 2019 holidays, which includes packages and flights to Tunisia from Belfast  Following the change in FCO travel advice to Tunisia and reflecting customer demand, Thomas Cook resumed its operations to Tunisia for UK customers in February. The holiday company has since increased regional departures, with Thomas Cook Airlines operating a weekly flight from Belfast to Enfidha from May 1 until October 23 for summer 2019. Tunisia is ideal for customers looking for culture, great weather and an affordable holiday. A flight time of three and…