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Tourism rebounded in Tunisia with 8.8 million visitors in 2023, up 49.3% year-on-year, surpassing the record set in 2019.
Ayman Rahmani, director of studies and international cooperation at the National Tourism Office, said, “Our goal was to recover 80% of the tourism flows recorded in 2019,” the reference year of the last decade.
Rahmani noted that as of December 10, 2023, “Tunisia exceeded this target” by receiving 8.8 million visitors compared to 8.7 million during the same period in 2019.
Rahmani stressed that “if we maintain the same pattern by the end of 2023, we will reach 9.6 million visitors.”
Revenues amounted to 6.7 billion dinars (about 2 billion euros) as of December 10, 2023.
Algerians (2.7 million) topped the list of visitors to Tunisia, followed by Libyans (2.1 million) and the French (974,000 tourists), according to the Tunisian official.