Tunis – Tunisia welcomed 9.4 million tourists in 2019, up 13.6% from 2018, the Ministry of Tourism and Handicrafts reported this Friday (3). The information is from TAP news agency. On December 20, Tourism minister René Trabelsi had already announced that Tunisia had met the 9-million-tourist goal set for 2019.
According to TAP, the growth was driven by a 15.9% increase in the number of European tourists, which reached 2.8 million. And visitors from other Maghreb countries climbed by 15.5%, to 4.9 million.
The Arab Maghreb is made up by Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Libya and Mauritania. Algerians were the top visitors to the region, followed by Libyans. It’s worth recalling that for years, Libya has been plagued by a civil conflict, which causes a large people flow in the border between the two countries.
The industry’s revenue, as TAP reported this Friday, reached nearly DT 5.5 billion (USD 2 billion) through December 20, 2019, up 35.7% from 2018.
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
