The Director-General of the Tunisian National Office of Tourism, Nizar Suleiman, revealed that more than two million foreign tourists came to Tunisia during the first half of this year, which represents an estimated increase of 104 percent compared to the same period last year.
Suleiman expected that the number of tourists coming to Tunisia during the current tourist season would reach more than 4.75 million tourists, an increase of more than 100 percent compared to 2021. However, these expectations are far from previous expectations that talked about receiving between 5 and 7 million tourists.
Financial revenues from the tourism sector increased by 54.2%, reaching about 1.234 billion Tunisian dinars (398 million dollars) during the first half of 2022, compared to 0.8 billion dinars in the same period last year.
The Tunisian tourist destination relies on European markets, which are traditional markets for Tunisia. Until the end of last June, Tunisian tourist facilities received more than 302,000 French tourists, about 57,000 German tourists and just over 29,000 tourists from the Czech market.
Source (Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, Edited)
