Tunisia

Bulgaria could be one of the countries benefitting from the deflection of the tourist stream away from Tunisia, according to a Reuters report, as quoted by South China Morning Post.

European destinations such as Spain, Bulgaria and even Greece could become preferred destinations for tourists looking for relatively low-cost all-inclusive packages.

Fearing for their safety in Tunisia after a gunman killed dozens of tourists, sun-seeking Europeans are switching to destinations such as Spain, Bulgaria or even Greece for holidays this year.

Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebi declared a state of emergency in Tunisia, a week after the terrorist attack at a resort in Sousse that killed 39 foreign tourists – thirty from the UK. The state of emergency allows the government to have more flexibility and the army and police have more authority.

This week?s domestic data released extinguished hopes that the economy was on a recovery path, while other developments once again highlighted global economic risks that could affect Turkey.

Tunisian authorities have arrested 12 people they suspect are linked to the Sousse beach hotel attack on foreign tourists, and are hunting for two men who trained in a Libyan jihadist camp with the Sousse attacker, an official said. 

Data from Serbian travel agencies show that despite the latest terrorist attack in Tunisia and the ongoing crisis in Greece, Serbian tourists still wish to spend their vacations at both destinations.

This column on Nov. 14, 2012, described Turkey?s border with Syria as the most dangerous frontier in the world, underlining the risks for the Turkish army at that time, while urging the Turkish government over provocative attempts aiming to drag it into its southern neighbor?s civil war.

Israel deported Tunisian ex-president Moncef Marzouki and European parliament member Ana Miranda on June 30 after they took part in a flotilla seeking to defy its Gaza blockade, an official said.

Tunisia expects to lose at least $515 million this year, or about a quarter of its estimated annual tourism earnings, following the June 26 attack on a beach hotel that killed 39 people, mostly British holidaymakers. 

Prime Minister David Cameron warned June 29 that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants based in Syria and Iraq were planning specific attacks against Britain and posed an existential threat to the West.