Day: August 15, 2017

Tunisia: Derbal expects economy to growth between 3 and 3.5% in 2018

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Prime Minister’s adviser in charge of tax reform Faisal Derbal told ExpressFm he expected growth to stand at 2.2% this year and between 3 and 3.5% in the next year. He also assured that it is necessary to support companies in good standing with the tax authorities, while revealing that there will be a real hunt for fraudsters at the same time as the establishment of a line of financing for the restructuring of companies and encouraging exporting enterprises. Derbal also said that there will be a package of tax…

Two years after Sousse attack, British tourists return to Tunisia

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Alistair Burt, the British minister of state for the Middle East and North Africa, announced July 26 that his country is no longer advising its citizens against flying to Tunisia, including the capital and most resorts. In June 2015, Britain warned its nationals against traveling to Tunisia following the terrorist attack on a beach resort in Sousse, east of Tunis. British travel companies resumed their flights to Tunisia July 28. On June 26, 2015, Tunisian national and Islamic State member Seifeddine Rezgui attacked a hotel on the beach in Sousse, killing…

‘Now this dream comes true’

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Four foreign students made their maiden voyage into Dickinson this past weekend as they embark on an expedition unlike anything they’ve yet to experience. Rija Nazir, Maryam Zahid and Arslan Khowaja, of Pakistan, and Geritt Koelling, of Germany, are four of the 11 students who were selected through various foreign exchange student programs to attend Dickinson State University during the fall. Other countries participating in the foreign exchange student program come from South Korea, Japan and Tunisia. Each entering the United States for the very first time, some students rode…

The Risk from Britain

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Political unrest on the eastern Mediterranean hasn’t dented German tour operators’ profits. But Brexit has, writes Handelsblatt’s companies and markets editor Christoph Schlautmann. Anyone booking a vacation to Spain, Greece or Croatia this summer was in for a shock. Much beach accommodation had sold out, and what was left seemed to cost 50 percent more than last year. The law of supply and demand became starkly apparent. In fact, there was a plentiful supply of places to stay – just not areas where tourists felt safe. In the first half of 2017,…