Tourist entries  and revenues rise during first part of 2008

 Tunis , June 30, 2008 (TunisiaOnline)--Recent figures released by the ministry of tourism show that tourist entries have exceeded 2,6 million during the first semester 2008, thus representing an increase of 4,7%.

European tourists represent 56% of the entries, and total 1,4 million tourists.

French tourists still rank first with some 583, 7 thousand tourists followed by German, Italian and British visitors.

Tourists from the Maghreb have totalled more than a million, showing an increase of 8, 1%. Libyans occupy the first place with some 788, 16 entries.

The figures also show that tourist revenues have increased by 8, 4%, in comparison with the same period in 2007.

 

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50th anniversary of independence (1956-2006)



Website of Tunisia’s fiftieth anniversary of independence

50th anniversary of Tunisia’s code of Personal Status


US Library of Congress symposium celebrates Tunisia’s Code of Personal Status

-August 12, 2006- President Ben Ali reaffirms Tunisia’s commitment to the code of personal status, a pioneering legislation adopted in 1956, which has granted Tunisian women equal rights with men. The code has banned polygamy, forced marriages and repudiation.


-August 13, 2006- Elyssa’s peace emissaries set sail from Carthage

 

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