Shortage Of Hotel Rooms In Tunisia

As it was forecasted by the travel market experts, air traffic volume to Tunisia is reducing. Thus, this season travel market offers 3,100 seats per week comparing to 3,500 seats last year. For example, Natalia Margolina, the Head of the Tunisia Department of ISC travel group, commented as follows: ‘at the moment there is an excess of flights to the destination, moreover, the sales depth has reduced. However, it is a typical tendency for the end of June and the beginning of July. The demand will grow in the middle of July’. Nevertheless, Galina Gorshkova, Genneral Director Deputy of charter Flight department of CAPITAL TOUR, said: ‘at the moment the air traffic is in balance. And we are not experiencing problems with the demand’. Meanwhile, the majority of Russian tours operating companies face the problem of the shortage of hotel rooms in Tunisia. ‘many hotel rooms are on stop sale at the moment. Before, the shortage of hotel rooms in Tunisia was a problem of August and September – the peak of the season’, said Margolina. Russian travel market players explain the tendency by a high tourist flow to Tunisia from the Western Europe. Thus, Margolina emphasized: ‘Tunisian hoteliers give preference to western partners. There are situations, when Tunisian hoteliers adopt changes within the signed contracts with their Russian partners and reduce quotas for hotel rooms’.