Tunisia says revolt to boost tourism

Tunisia says revolt to boost tourism: "A popular revolt in Tunisia will benefit tourism in the long term, even though holidaymakers took fright in past weeks, the country’s ambassador to Spain said Wednesday.

'Tourists were a bit worried,' Ambassador Mohamed Ridha Kechrid conceded in an interview on the opening day of the five-day international tourism trade fair, Fitur, in Madrid.

'Now order has been re-established and from now on tourists can come back to Tunisia,' he said.

'There was a crisis of confidence, which is bad for everyone, for Tunisians, for foreign investors and of course for tourists,' he added.

But once democratic elections have been organized 'Tunisia will be even more beautiful, more credible... and this change will be beneficial for Tunisian tourism and for the economy.'

Tourism is Tunisia’s major foreign exchange earner, covering 60 percent of the trade deficit. It accounts for 6.5 percent of total economic output and gives work to 350,000 people in the country of 10 million.

Kechrid said Tunisian tourism should diversify."

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