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Δευτέρα 30 Ιουλίου 2012

Tunisia Tourism Revenues up 36% in Q1


Hammamet by tomsweeneytravels.blogspot.com   

Tunisia's tourism revenues jumped 36 percent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011.
Tourism receipts reached 1.15 billion dinars (around 575 million euros) during the first three months of this year, Tourism Minister Elyes Fakhfakhannounced.
The number of overnight stays during this period surged by 74 percent to 11 million. But they still remained 20 percent lower than in the first quarter of 2010.
Meanwhile, revenues were down 13 to 15 percent compared with the first quarter of 2010 according to Habib Ammar, the Director of Tunisia's National Tourism Office, ONTT
The latest figures confirm the recovery of Tunisia'stourism industry, after official data released in April indicated a rise in tourist arrivals in the first quarter of 52.8 percent.
The number of tourists visiting Tunisia in the first six months of 2012 was also up, by 41 percent compared with the first half of last year, to 2.4 million, and the minister said expectations for the summer were satisfactory.
Reservation rates for July are forecast at 85 percent, falling to 68 percent in August and 60 percent in September.
The French contribute by the far the most to Tunisia's tourism industry, accounting for 8.7 million overnight stays in 2010, followed by the Germans with 5.3 million overnight stays, according to the ONTT.
Tourism represents seven percent of Tunisia's GDP, employing 400,000 people directly or indirectly, but the sector foundered in the wake of the mass uprising that toppled the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
The number of tourists visiting Tunisia that year fell to 4.8 million in 2011, compared with nearly seven million in 2010, while revenues were down by 33 percent.
The ministry hopes to see annual tourist arrivals topping the pre-uprising levels in 2013.
Source: agencies