Year: 2018

business Tourists return to Tunisia in record numbers since 2015 attacks

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Tourist numbers to Tunisia will hit a record high this year, fully reversing the damage inflicted on the sector by attacks on holidaymakers in 2015, the tourism minister said on Wednesday. After three years of shunning Tunisia in the wake of a gun attack on a beach in Sousse that killed 39 tourists and one at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis that killed 21, major European tour operators have started to return. “We aim to receive 8 million tourists this year with strong booking rates from European customers and…

Some 331.807 MD in 2017/2018 season for date exports

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The revenue of date exports for 2017/2018 stands at 331.807 million dinars (MD) thus reaching record up 22%  compared to  last season (271.727MD). The dates exported jumped by 6% since early this season (October 1, 2017) reaching 54,519 thousand tonnes February 21, 2018, against 51,391 thousand tonnes, the Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries Ministry said. In the same period, organic dates export reached 6,876 tonnes against 5,263 tonnes in the same period of last season, a leap of 30.6%. This record increase is due to the rise in the quantities…

Corruption Perceptions Index 2017: Tunisia tops Maghreb countries

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Tunisia was ranked 74th out of 180 countries with a score of 42 points, by the new Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2017. It only gained one point over the year the latest (41 points in 2016 and 42 in 2017), according to the new Transparency International report, which revealed, this year, that more than two thirds of countries score less than 50, with an average score of 43. Tunisia is leading the Maghreb countries, with Morocco ranked in 81st place (40 points), Algeria in 112th place (33 points), Mauritania…

UN pays tribute to Tunisia’s contributions to its peacekeeping operations

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The United Nations has expressed gratitude and appreciation to Tunisia for its ongoing contributions to UN peacekeeping operations,  TAP reports. “For more than fifty years, Tunisia has been a steadfast partner to the United Nations peace-keeping. We are grateful for the services and the contributions of Tunisian peacekeepers,” Jean-Pierre Lacroix, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations was quoted as saying by a UN Information Centre (UNIC) statement released Wednesday. On the occasion, the United Nations produced a collection of posters paying tribute to the women and men of the Tunisian…

Tunisia, archaeological marathon in Carthage

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The fourth edition of the Carthage Race will be held on Sunday, February 25, between Carthage and Sidi Bou Said, along with  events scheduled throughout Tunisia, according to the Carthage Race website.  During the race,  runners will compete near important and well-known historic sites namely Carthage, Byrsa, Sidi Bou Said, Marsa, the cisterns of La Malga, the Acropolium and Roman theater, the source reports. According to a  statement of the National office of Tunisian Tourism an Ultra Trail that will be held on September 29-30. The Ultra Mirage El Djerid…

Riyeda entrepreneurship fair opens in Tunis

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Over 8,000 people are expected at the two-day entrepreneurship fair, Riyeda, which opened Wednesday in Tunis TAP reports. Representatives of public and private financing and support structures, young graduates with innovative ideas, job seekers, Tunisian and foreign experts as well as entrepreneurs are taking part in the fifth edition of this fair. Financing structures and event sponsors representatives  emphasised the need to strengthen the culture of entrepreneurship in order to create a generation of young entrepreneurs able to establish businesses and generate jobs. Winners of the Startup Tunisia Award were unveiled…

EBRD and FAO support sustainable olive oil production in Tunisia

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Phoenician travellers first introduced the olive tree to what is nowadays Tunisia. Its cultivation is said to have been refined here, before trees were taken northwards and westwards, into the heartlands of the Roman Empire. Tunisia is well established as a major exporter of olive oil, alongside Italy and Spain – and the country’s producers increasingly see the benefits of producing high quality extra virgin olive oil. This is helping them to become more competitive, while Tunisian oil is also being recognised more widely at home and abroad, according to…

Tunisia welcomes first Chinese charterd-flight tourist group

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The first Chinese chartered-flight tourist group arrived in Tunisia on Tuesday, as the North African country expects to attract more people from the world’s biggest tourist market. The trip route of the 165-tourist group, organized by China Youth Tourism Service (CYTS), one of the biggest tour operators in China, covers Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria. Song Chenxi, a tourist group member who works in Beijing, said she was impressed by the “half sea and half flame” of Tunisia when she first travelled to the country in 2012. This is why she…

Violence in Tunisian stadiums: The nightmare

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The scourge of endemic violence erupting every week in Tunisian football fields becomes more and more worrying and painful for all. Some footages showed us the growing of violence and its multiple forms inside and outside stadiums between youth groups, sometimes between fans of the same team, or through attacking security forces in many sport games, even their team were winners, or sometimes violence fueled by players and supervisors of sports clubs themselves. Unfortunately, this terrible phenomenon created a frightening and a dire situation in our stadiums which damaged the reputation…

Tunisia to host EBRD’s Regional Investment Summit, November 2019

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President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Suma Chakrabarti announced, after his meeting sith President Bej Caid Essebsi in Tunis, that EBRD’s next Regional Investment Summit will be held in Tunisia in November 2019, The cooperation with Tunisia is symbolic and important for the EBRD which supports Tunisia’s economy, said Chakrabarti. According to Chakrabarti, the EBRD will continue to support Tunisian economic and financial policy by financing a series of projects launched in the interior regions of the country and supporting Tunisian small and medium-sized enterprises by…