Tunisian Tourism Minister Habib Ammar explained that Tunisia's fortunes remain in place to save the tourist season this year after the health authorities announced a plan to provide anti-Coronavirus vaccines, indicating that the epidemic had created new tourism alternatives.
He also considered that "the pandemic has a major impact on global tourism, not just Tunisia, as the losses of international tourism revenues amounted to about 730 billion dollars, and the number of tourists in the world has decreased by more than 70%, which are almost the same numbers recorded in Tunisia and in most tourist destinations." During the year 2020 we witnessed a sharp decline in tourism indicators, due to the outbreak of Corona in the world, and we recorded a decrease in the number of arrivals by 78% and revenues decreased by 64.5% as well as the percentage of tourist nights spent by visitors decreased by 80%, but in every crisis there is an opportunity for reform and development, and this what we seek to achieve by rebuilding a new pattern of Tunisian tourism."
Ammar stressed that "despite the Corona pandemic, the confidence of foreign and Tunisian investors in the tourism sector is still there. In 2020, we recorded a record of investment intentions in the sector, reaching one billion dinars (750 million dollars), which is twice as much as the investment intentions recorded in 2019, which affirms the importance of the tourism sector in promoting development, generating projects and creating jobs, and it also reflects the good image of Tunisia abroad, which has encouraged many major and international brands to establish tourist resorts in Tunisia.
Source (Al-Araby Al-Jadeed Newspaper, Edited)
