Tunisia: Tourism receipts reach $425 million in Q1 2025
Tunisia's tourism receipts amounted to the equivalent of 1,347 million dinars, at the end of the first quarter of 2025, compared with 1,282 million dinars in the same period last year.
According to the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT), tourism receipts increased by 65 million dinars compared with the end of March 2024.
Expressed in dollars, tourism receipts for the first quarter of the current year amounted to 425 million dollars (average monthly exchange rate on the interbank market for the first three months of the year: 1 US dollar = 3.1620 dinars).
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