Morocco and Tunisia Rebound as Top Summer Destinations for French Tourists

Bookings this summer for Tunisia are pouring in, despite the double attack carried out on Thursday, June 27, 2019, which killed a policeman, reports AFP. Instead of having an impact on these arrival prospects, this attack has very little influence on French tourists. For Jean-Pierre Mas, Representative of French Travel Agencies, tourists "are far from being targeted and Tunis is not a tourist city".

Ranked 4th in the top 10 (in volume) of medium-haul destinations, thus collecting a rate of 23% in one year, Tunisia remains a destination visited by the French, according to data from Seto, the Union of Tour Operators. Following it is Morocco, in fifth place, with a 2% increase, and Turkey, which is making a comeback, with a 59% increase.

With this interest that the French summer visitors have for these three Arab countries, Spain, Greece, Italy or Portugal are taking a hit from this tourist revival of these three destinations, recalls the French travel agency.

For this summer, for example, 31 million people, or one million more than last summer, i.e. 36% of the French, want to travel as early as July/August, AFP reports Didier Arino, Director of the Protourisme firm. Among them, 60% prefer holidays in the country, 30% choose abroad, "more than the last summer season which was already a record". As for the 10%, they are still undecided, according to the report, carried out this week, using the quota method.