Tunis/Tunisia — The Ministry of Tourism is engaged on the event of a technique aiming at elevating the contribution price of home tourism to about 50% of the entire arrivals, mentioned Minister of Tourism and Handicrafts, Mohamed Moez Belhassine.
Talking in the course of the Nationwide Discussion board on Home Tourism held on Wednesday below the slogan “Tounes Lik” (Tunisia is for you), Belhassine added that this occasion goals at discussing and exchanging concepts to outline a improvement technique for home tourism.
This technique might be carried out throughout the framework of cooperation with the “Go to Tunisia” programme and the assorted actors of the sector, he added.
Belhassine additionally careworn that the ministry and the Tunisian Nationwide Vacationer Workplace (ONTT) will proceed the promotion efforts in 2022, in coordination with the professionals and all of the stakeholders by the implementation of nationwide promotion campaigns for home tourism and the participation in all of the occasions.
He indicated that as a result of unfold of the COVID-19 pandemic on this planet and the sanitary restrictions within the journey between the cities and the vacationer websites, the variety of arrivals within the motels has fallen by 46%, to achieve 1.3 million arrivals (3 million in a single day stays), in opposition to roughly 2.5 million, in 2019.
The minister has recalled on this context the easing of restrictions in line with the evolution of the epidemiological scenario in 2021, to make sure the sustainability of the tourism sector, therefore a rise within the variety of arrivals of about 62% and the variety of in a single day stays in resort models of 49% to achieve about 4.6 million in a single day stays.
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He added that the share of home tourism, by way of in a single day stays, represents about 57%, in opposition to an annual common of 20%, which explains the essential function that home tourism has performed in limiting the repercussions of the pandemic.
For his half, President of the Shopper Defence Organisation, Ammar Dhaya, has emphasised the necessity to give extra curiosity to the Tunisian vacationer by specializing in high quality.
Dhaya careworn the necessity to take into account home tourism with no consideration for all Tunisians and to encourage Tunisians to eat native handicrafts to allow professionals to advertise their merchandise and be part of the nationwide financial dynamic.
For her half, President of the Tunisian Federation of the Lodge Business (FTH), Dorra Miled, has careworn that home tourism is without doubt one of the priorities of the FTH, given its important function within the revival of the sector and the contribution to improvement.
She careworn {that a} area research on home tourism and the event of vacationer providers in resort models has been carried out with a view to assure the advance of their high quality and their adaptation to the habits of Tunisians by way of meals, lodging circumstances, sports activities and cultural actions.
Milad indicated that the event of the providers offered shouldn’t be the only real accountability of the resort models, however moderately of all events, together with the municipalities, to boost the pure, cultural, civilisational and historic content material of Tunisia.
