Tunisia boosts tourist security and probes Libya link to Sousse gunman
- 9 years ago
Tunisia is deploying 1,000 more armed police to patrol tourist sites and hotels following Friday’s terrorist attack in Sousse, which killed 38 people, mostly British holidaymakers.
The atrocity is expected to cause serious damage to the country’s tourist industry, which expects to lose at least 460 million euros this year, or about a quarter of its estimated annual tourism earnings.
“The attack had a great impact on the economy, the losses will be large,” Tourism Minister Salma Loumi told reporters, giving a preliminary estimate from the Sousse attack.
The North African country earned 1.75 billion euros in revenues from tourism last year. The sector makes up seven percent of its gross domestic product.
Many Britons in particular have left the country or cancelled holidays since last week.
With tourism providing a major source of income and employment in Tunisia, the government is also looking at economic ways of aiding the industry, with plans to end a visitors’ tax and revi
The atrocity is expected to cause serious damage to the country’s tourist industry, which expects to lose at least 460 million euros this year, or about a quarter of its estimated annual tourism earnings.
“The attack had a great impact on the economy, the losses will be large,” Tourism Minister Salma Loumi told reporters, giving a preliminary estimate from the Sousse attack.
The North African country earned 1.75 billion euros in revenues from tourism last year. The sector makes up seven percent of its gross domestic product.
Many Britons in particular have left the country or cancelled holidays since last week.
With tourism providing a major source of income and employment in Tunisia, the government is also looking at economic ways of aiding the industry, with plans to end a visitors’ tax and revi