Half Million of Algerian tourists to visit Tunisia before September

Border check points in Tebessa, Taref and Souk Ahras (eastern Algeria) noticed a massive presence of Algerian tourists, since the first day of Eid al-Fitr.

A source from Customs told Echorouk that the number of passengers will not be less than half a million Algerians added to some expatriates who were unable to obtain tickets to return to France, so they resorted to Tunisia, which provides a lot of air and sea trips, and at much lower prices than what is available in Algeria.

The total length of some queus in the centers of Oum Toboul and Layoune in Kala (eastern Algeria) reached a hundred meters, which made various centers bracing and relive every crew worker who entered in the annual holiday, in addition to the services of the border police, and even the Tunisian side which insisted by order of the government on the success of the tourist season thanks to what the Tunisian press called ” The human flood of Algerian tourists who fled to Tunisia for quality and not for quantity, as Tunisians think that the Algerian tourist is the appropriate for the advancement of tourism due to the crisis suffocating the European countries, especially after Tunisia becomes the first direction for Italians, Czechs and Russians, who pay the price of accommodation and feeding in the tourist agencies of their countries, and do not hardly ever spend 10 euros during an entire week.