Let’s start with the proposal of the Troika, elections are to be held on June 23, 2013 and possibly July 7, 2013 for the second round of presidential elections. This implies a campaign at the end of school year, riding with the baccalaureate exams and the beginning of the tourist season. Opting for election dates at the beginning of tourist season is not a decision taken lightly especially for the currency that sector brings . Around the world, election years are bad for tourism. These dates will necessarily have a negative impact on the tourist season 2013.
The elections and the campaign preceding them happen in the best conditions or not, their conduct can only rekindle fears that feed the various forms of violence that we are witnessing in the country in recent weeks and months. If things go wrong or that incidents broke out here and there, “it will be tourists who will evaporate for months at the slightest spark,” said Akram, rug merchant in the city of Hammamet. Angry, the young man had enough of this situation which weakened his sector. “Whether they end with the elections and quickly. They are all the same … I would vote no if there’s one that will bring tourists … “.
While some complain that the current governance does little to bring tourists, others think that the elections in June and July will fill the summer.
Meanwhile, the image of Tunisia abroad and particularly on the European source markets is at half mast in particular because of slippages related to different events like the attack on the embassy of the United States, the rape of the young woman by police … the political violence that has settled in Tunisia does not reassure tour operators who may have to erase the destination next summer.
The question is that summer represents in Tunisia more than 2/3 of the turnover of Tunisian hotels.
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