Tunisia expected to receive 8 mln visitors in 2018

Tunisia is expected to receive 8 million tourists in 2018, said President of Tunisian Association of Travel Agents (FTAV) Jaber Ben Atouch on Monday. According to Atouch, the prediction is based on indicators such as reservation rate and return of European tourists. “This successful summer season started since April, with the confirmation of 650,000 French tourists, an increase of 200 percent compared with the same period of last year,” said Atouch. Tunisia is also prepared to welcome more than 900,000 Russian tourists, “a rising market for Tunisia since 2011,” assured…

Tunisia Slams Italian Vice PM for Remark It Sends ‘Convicts’ to EU

Amid a rising wave of anti-immigrant sentiment in Italy and as hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers from North Africa and the Middle East have landed in the country in recent years, controversial comments about migrants made by Italy’s new Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini have prompted strong criticism from Tunisia. During a local campaign stop in Sicily on Monday, Salvini, who is also a deputy prime minister in the new coalition government sworn in on Friday, said that even though Tunisia was a free and democratic country without “wars, epidemics, famines or pestilence,”…

Sousse: more than one million tourists expected

More than 1.2 million tourists are expected in the tourist area of ​​Sousse-El Kantaoui during the summer season with an increase in the number of overnight stays to 5 million, according to estimates of the regional tourism commission. From the beginning of the year until May 20, tourism indicators have improved with a rise in arrivals (37.1%). Indeed, 32,979 tourists visited the region and spent, in total, 13,763 overnight stays, up 47.5% over the same period last year. Tourism activity in the region saw a gradual return of traditional markets,…