The Tunisian Ministry of Tourism said that around 2.9 million tourists visited the country by the end of May, registering an increase of 3.3 percent compared to the same period in 2019, and no less than 89 percent compared to 2022.
Experts in the tourism sector expected that Tunisian tourism would regain its position despite the relative negative impact of the criminal attack that targeted the Ghriba Synagogue on the island of Djerba (southeastern Tunisia), which is one of the favorite destinations for a large number of French and German tourists.
In this regard, Fouad Bouslama, a Tunisian expert in tourism, said that more than nine million tourists were expected to visit Tunisia during the current season. This number is equivalent to the record results seen in 2019.
During a meeting held earlier this month in the coastal town of Nabeul, professionals in the sector, along with the director of the Tunisian Office of Tourism, and the president and general manager of Tunisair, unanimously agreed that all indicators herald a promising tourist season. They expressed the possibility of exceeding the recorded numbers in the 2019 season, the reference year for the recovery of tourism in the country.
In this context, Nizar Suleiman, Director General of the Tunisian Tourism Office, said that about 2.9 million tourists visited Tunisia during the first five months of this year, stressing that the financial revenues were estimated at 1.423 billion Tunisian dinars (about $473 million), an increase of about 60 percent compared to the previous season, and by 2.4 compared to 2019.
