MADRID — Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid says his country needs jobs to counter the ****** of ****** ******* like the two this year that targeted tourists, but his nation’s important tourism sector won’t fully recover for another two to three years.
Tourism receipts are down 21% since 2010, while arrivals are down 31% and global nights down 43%.
Essid tells The Associated Press in an interview that the unemployment rate in Tunisia is the biggest risk factor for future *******.
Essid spoke Tuesday ahead of his appearance at an international conference on extremism by the Madrid Club group of former global leaders and heads of state.
An ****** in March on the Bardo Museum ****** 21 people. In June, 38 **** in an ****** at a resort in Sousse.
Most of those ****** in the ******* were tourists.
Figures from the Ministry of Tourism and Handicrafts from January to September, 2015 show the following:
| Parameters | 2010 | 2014 | 2015 | Gap in % 2015/2014 |
Gap in % 2015/2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tourist receipts in MDT | 2.643,0 | 2.745,3 | 1.873,6 | -31,8 | -21 |
| Global nights | 29.114.117 |  24.244.820 |
14.006.524 | -42,2 | -42,9 |
| Arrivals to the borders | 6.187.444 | 5.780.034 | 4.262.149 | -26,3 | -31.1 |
Source : Direction of Studies
