LONDON: Tunisia wooed more tourists in the first quarter of this year, which saw a 17.4 percent increase in arrivals compared to the same period in 2018, according to Tunisian Ministry of Tourism data quoted by Asharq Al-Awsat.

The tourism sector saw an influx of up to 787.8 million dinars ($262.6 million) of hard currency revenues — an increase of 35.1 percent on last year, the newspaper reported.
Minister of Tourism Rene Trabelsi said"...

Afghanistan and Tunisia’s central banks are aiming to approach the financial markets with a Bitcoin (BTC) bond, Hong Kong-based news outlet Asia Times reported. The governors of the both nation’s central banks revealed the plan at the annual Spring Meetings held between April 8 and 14 between the World Bank Group’s Governing Boards and the International Monetary Fund in Washington.

A launching seminar for three new export consortia was organized on Thursday, April 18, in the presence of Omar Behi, Minister of Trade and Dr. Andreas Reinicke the German Ambassador to Tunisia and institutional stakeholders , export support agencies and private sector actors.

The creation of these consortia will foster the emergence"...

The net banking income of “Union bancaire pour le commerce et l’industrie” (UBCI) at the end of the first quarter of 2019 is 61.5 million dinars (MD), i.e. an increase of 14.67% compared to the end of March 2018.

Customer deposits show an increase of 4.77% compared to 31/03/2018, with an outstanding amount of 2,524"...

Pharmaceutical company UNIMED, owned by its founder Ridha Charfeddine, announced that it had achieved a turnover of 31.1 million dinars in the first quarter of 2019, against 13.9 million a year earlier, representing a growth of 124%.

This increase affected both the local market and the export market.

In fact, the local turnover rose 122% to 18.2 million dinars while exports"...

The leader in hygiene articles in Tunisia, the “Société d’Articles Hygiéniques”, better known as Lilas, published on Thursday, April 18, 2019 its activity indicators for the first quarter of the year.

They show a significant growth in the company’s revenues by 42% compared to the same quarter of 2018, increasing from 74.6 to 106.3 million dinars.

This"...