Tunisia fights for comeback tourism

- Tunisia hopes the travel advice from Netherlands to visit the North African country if that is necessary to get off the table, at least in part. Tourism Minister Salma Elloumi Rekik made Wednesday during a visit to The Hague know here in an interview with Minister Bert Koenders (Foreign Affairs) to do her best for.

Since three terrorist attacks the country opschrikten last year, tourism from the Netherlands to Tunisia fell by more than 66 percent compared with a year earlier. A disaster for the country, which has at least 7 per cent of gross national income from tourism. A million people earn their living in tourism. The absence of tourists locks 170 hotels forced the doors. The number of flights fell by 80 percent in the third quarter from Dutch airports to Tunisia.

According to Minister Elloumi Rekik have already taken so many security measures, in consultation also with the European Union, which travel to the country again.,, We allow travel agencies on the spot to see what we have done. '' The one bright spot is that large hotel organizations such as Accor and Hilton to invest again and new hotels will open from next year, the minister said.