Tunisia’s revenue from tourism, the country’s main foreign currency earner, rose 9.1%o 1.8 billion dinars ($1.4 billion) for January-August from the same period last year, official figures showed on Wednesday.
Some 4.411 million holidaymakers visited the North African country in the period, up 3.7% from a year earlier.
Tourism revenue grew to 2.8 billion dinars last year, on record tourist arrivals of 6.5 million, from 2.5 billion in 2005.
The government expects tourism revenue of more than $3 billion for the whole of 2007, about 8.6 percent more than last year.
Tourism is the North African country’s key foreign currency earner and the biggest employer after the labour-extensive agriculture sector.
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