{"id":55937,"date":"2016-12-15T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/tunisia-tourism-revenue-down-7\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:26:51","slug":"tunisia-tourism-revenue-down-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/tunisia-tourism-revenue-down-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia tourism revenue down 7%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Tunisia saw TND 2 billion (USD 860 million) in tourist revenue from January to October this year, down 7.1% from the same months in 2015, its Ministry of Tourism has reported. The information was released by news agency <em>Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>TAP<\/em> said the drop in revenue came in spite of higher tourist influx and an increase in overnight stays. The country welcomed 4,810,760 foreign tourists through October, up 3.4% from the comparable year-ago period. <\/p>\n<p>Guest nights amounted to 16,422,968, a 10% increase year-on-year. <\/p>\n<p>Tourism is a major source of revenue for Tunisia, but the industry&rsquo;s performance has been subpar since 2011, when a popular uprising overthrew then-president Zine Abdine Ben Ali, during the so-called Arab Spring. <\/p>\n<p>The situation deteriorated further last year, with terrorist attacks at Tunis&rsquo; Bardo Museum and on the coastal town of Sousse, which claimed dozens of lives, mostly tourists&rsquo;. <\/p>\n<p>According to <em>TAP<\/em>, the Ministry of Tourism said a tourism restructuring plan will be put in place, including professional training initiatives, quality control and diversification of tourist products. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-188119\">Fethi Belaid\/AFP 08\/05\/2015<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The industry grossed USD 860 million from January to October this year, despite an increase in both tourist and guest numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":188119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism"},"wps_subtitle":"The industry grossed USD 860 million from January to October this year, despite an increase in both tourist and guest numbers.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55937","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=55937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}