Tunisia turning towards the Chinese outbound tourism market

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On 29th August 2018
china outbound tourism, COTRI Weekly, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt, Tunisia

On yet another trip, your humble editor visited yet two more UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Tunis, which features the Medina (old city) and the ruins of Carthage, which ruled the Mediterranean Sea before losing to the Roman Empire in the three Punic Wars most of Western readers will dimly remember from history lessons in school. […]

Attractive Visa Policies and Cooler Weather Help Bring Chinese Tourists to Africa

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On 22nd August 2017
Addis Ababa, Africa, Air Leisure, Aswan, Changsha, Chengdu, ctrip, Egypt, Ethiopian Airlines, eVisas, kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco, Tanzania, Tunisia, visa-free arrival policy, visa-on-arrival

Numerous African destinations are seeing a boom in Chinese tourists as relaxed visa policies and the desire to escape Chinese weather are helping to drive arrival numbers. Morocco has notably seen a 500 percent year-on-year increase in Chinese arrivals this summer, after the introduction of a visa-free arrival policy for Chinese nationals last year helped […]