{"id":264926,"date":"2019-12-20T18:21:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=264926"},"modified":"2019-12-20T18:58:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:58:38","slug":"tunisia-welcomed-over-9-million-tourists-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/tunisia-welcomed-over-9-million-tourists-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia welcomed over 9 million tourists in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis \u2013 Over 9 million tourists have visited Tunisia until December 20, 2019, the country\u2019s Tourism and Handicrafts minister Ren\u00e9 Trabelsi said. The sector\u2019s revenue exceeded DT 5,350 million (USD 1.88 billion), <em>Tunis Afrique Presse (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tap.info.tn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TAP<\/a>)<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_264918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264918\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/000_1GA26A.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-264918\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/000_1GA26A-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/000_1GA26A-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/000_1GA26A-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/000_1GA26A.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trabelsi said the country\u2019s security situation improved<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Total visitors will reach 9.5 million tourists by the 31<sup>st<\/sup> in accordance with the 9-million-tourist goal set for 2019. This represents an increase of about 1 million tourists compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/tourism-in-tunisia-had-its-best-year-in-a-decade\/\">2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trabelsi said that this figure was achieved thanks to the improvement of the country\u2019s security situation and the efforts of the ministry, in coordination with professionals, journalists and civil society activists.<\/p>\n<p>The country saw an increase in French, British, Italian, Russian, Algerian and Chinese tourists.<\/p>\n<p>The sector\u2019s earnings grew up by 36.6% from a year ago and are expected to reach DT 5.7 million (USD 2 billion) late this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-264916\">Norbert Scanella\/Only World\/Only France\/AFP<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-264918\">Fethi Belaid\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sector expects to end the year with a revenue of USD 2 billion, minister Ren\u00e9 Trabelsi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":264916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[13195,9692,6780,9556,36584],"class_list":{"0":"post-264926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-rene-trabelsi-en","9":"tag-tourism-en","10":"tag-travels","11":"tag-tunisia-en","12":"tag-viagens-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Sector expects to end the year with a revenue of USD 2 billion, minister Ren\u00e9 Trabelsi said.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}