Month: February 2025

Photo Credit FIPA Eddy Taieb, Chairman of Avialys, a French company specialising in information technology, cybersecurity, computing and telecommunications, paid a fact-finding visit to Tunisia on January 30 and 31, 2025, to look into the possibility of setting up a research and development centre dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity, as well as an AI laboratory in Tunisia, according to the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA Tunisia). Mr Taieb was received on January 31, 2025 by FIPA’s Director General, Jalel Tebib, at the agency’s headquarters. On this occasion, Mr…

TUI Group (International Tour Operator) has just opened, at the end of January 2025, its new “Tunisia Global Business Services” offices in Sousse, marking “an important step in the development of its activities in Tunisia”, reported the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency, FIPA-Tunisia. “This strategic project positions the city of Sousse as a key regional hub for TUI’s travel services, reinforcing, thus, Tunisia’s role in the group’s international network”. With the opening of its new offices in Sousse, TUI, the world leader in tourism and travel, confirms “its ambition to develop…

Hasdrubal Thalassa & Spa Yasmine Hammamet Tunisia has become the world’s second largest destination for seawater treatments, known as thalassotherapy, thanks to its Mediterranean coastline, natural thermal springs, mild weather and affordability. Historically, one of Tunisia’s hot spots for the therapy, which uses seawater and other marine resources, is Korbous, a coastal town on the Cap Bon peninsula. Thalassotherapy is an “ancestral heritage” for Tunisians, “since hydrotherapy has existed in Tunisia since antiquity, at the time of the Carthaginians and the Romans,” Shahnez Guizani, the head of the National Office…

Over 100 exhibitors and more than 150 speakers from 70 countries expected to participate President of the Tunisian-African Business Council, Anis Jaziri, confirmed that the 8th edition of the International Conference on Financing Investment and Trade in Africa (May 6-7, 2025) will be distinguished by all standards. // More than 100 exhibitors, more than 150 speakers, 30 sessions, workshops and parallel activities The session, which is held under the theme “Driving Africa’s Transformation,” is expected to be attended by more than 100 exhibitors and more than 100 representatives of international…

President of the Tunisian-African Business Council Anis Jaziri emphasised that logistics issues and exchange and financing laws are the biggest obstacles for Tunisian investors and businessmen to access the African market. // Logistics, exchange regulations, financing…the biggest obstacles Jaziri explained on Saturday at the opening of the regular plenary session of the Council that the absence of direct Tunisian airlines within African countries, unfortunately, disrupts the interests of Tunisians in the African market, compared to other airlines that have direct links to almost all African capitals. In contrast, Tunisair has…