It comes in the week of the one year anniversary of the gunning down of 38 tourists – including 30 Britons – in Sousse by an Islamic extremist. Since the massacre Tunisia has been implementing security measures in a bid to encourage the UK Foreign Office to lift its travel advice.
Security is now included as a priority in hotel inspections and the country has been building a fence along its border with Libya to try to keep out Islamic militants.
This week Tunisia’s director general of security also announced that 72 additional police posts were being added in tourist zones, along with 1,500 more police officers.
More bad news for North Africa as Tunisia state of emergency remains
Destinations
Sophie Griffiths
22 June 2016
Tourism to North Africa was dealt a new blow this week as British Airways announced it was dropping its Sharm el Sheikh programme "indefinitely”, and Tunisia extended its state of emergency by another month.
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