Britain is now the second biggest tourism market for Tunisia, with the potential to be the first within a number of years, the Tunisian minister for tourism said last night. Speaking in London, Jamal Gamra said: “Last year we had 330,000 British tourists visiting our country. This year we are aiming to bring more than 350,000 tourists. We are on a very positive tract.” Gamra said the country’s overall target was to reach seven million tourists “from all over the world” – not bad for a country that has a population of just over 10 million, and just over two years ago was seeing the first revolution of the Arab Spring. “We lost 2.5 million tourists during the year of the Arab Spring,” Gamra admitted, “but we recovered two thirds of that. Before the revolution we had seven million tourists exactly. Last year we had around six million, and we’re now aiming to reach the figures of 2010. “We want to progress to increase by one million tourists each year. We want 10 million tourists by 2016.”
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:42:22 +0000
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