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Tunisia's tourism industry set to suffer in wake of deadly hotel attack

2015-06-28 1 Dailymotion

The killing of 39 people at a beach hotel in Tunisia could spell disaster for the country’s already struggling economy. <br /><br /> Tunisia’s tourism minister has described the attack in Sousse, claimed by the self-proclaimed Islamic State group, as a “catastrophe.”<br /><br /> Authorities have vowed to tighten security, but that may not be enough to bring back the crowds of foreign holidaymakers anytime soon. <br /><br /> “The tourism sector in Tunisia has been killed, it’s dead now. Our economy is very bad, how we are going to live?” asked one Tunisian in Sousse.<br /><br /> “We depend on the tourists, there are around four thousand people from Sousse working in this sector.”<br /><br /> Tunisia’s tourism industry was already reeling from the Bardo museum massacre in Tunis, which happened earlier this year. Gunmen killed 21 foreign visitors. <br /><br /> Euronews reporter Mohammed Shaikhibrahim, who is in Sousse, said: “This area is known as a jewel of the Tunisian coast. It’s a favourite with tourists. But now the visitors have gone. All th

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