| Hotels in Tunisia |
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 Map of the major tourist regions in Tunisia (c) TunisiePro 2009 The airport in Enfidha is expected to start operations by April 2010 and is scheduled to take over, step by step in the following years, most of the charter (tourism) traffic from Monastir and Tunis airports, which are supposed, in turn, to concentrate on regular flights. There are as well a couple of local airports which do not play any bigger role in regard to tourism: List of Airports in Tunisia |
Hotels in Tunisia The major tourist regions in Tunisia are located on the east coast and can be broken down into 3 groups: 1) Island of Djerba
with Zarzis 2) Region
Hammamet/Nabeul 3) Region
Sousse/Monastir/Mahdia There are 3 other tourist regions which play only a minor role in regard of their volume contribution. Two of them are located on the northern coast of Tunisia, west of Tunis: Bizerte and Tabarka. They are mostly served by the airport of Tunis, but sometimes by the airport in Tabarka. The third region is north of the capital Tunis: Gammarth. In addition, there are 3 major tourist excursion regions, which are usually served by bus for tours of 1-4 days: Two are located in the south in the border region of the Sahara, one is the region Matmata/Douz in the east and the other one is the region Tozeur in the west of Tunisia. The third is the capital city Tunis itself with the region of Carthage (the ancient Carthago). See for more information: Satellite Maps of the regions of Tunisia including hotels |
The hotels
offer a wide range of quality from No Star to 5 Star hotels. The
classification of the hotels is by national standards - on a world
standard, you have mostly to subtract 1-1.5 stars from the national
classification. However, the classification itself will not necessarily
give an indication of "quality", since quality can range from good to
bad even within a short time period and for the same hotel and can as
well depend on the time of the year (season).
The hotel landscape is dominated by a few companies of tunisian origin and/or joint ventures of tunisian and mostly european hotel companies (eg. RIU, Iberostar, Accor, Moevenpick, etc.). Most of the hotels are booked by travel agencies, individual reservation, or generally, Tunisia as a destination for individual travels, is, to say the least, quite underdeveloped. Having been marketed for many years as a "cheap" travel destination, most hotels depend nowadays on the travel agencies contingents and the service level (not only towards individual travellers) is low, which led in the recent years to a decline of western "class" tourists. The gap was filled with tourists from mostly Eastern European countries, which are often, but not always, put in the lower classified hotels. Tourism from Tunisia itself and the neighbouring north-african countries, Libya and Algeria, plays a role, but do not affect the hotels in general, since these tourists tend to stay in holiday apartments in and around the tourist regions or concentrate on hotels that are not preferred by the western travel agencies. |
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