The Tunisian Federation of Travel and Tourism Agencies (FTAV) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) signed a memorandum of understanding in Tunis on Monday, September 12, 2022, to boost alternative tourism in Tunisia.
The memorandum is part of FTAV’s efforts to promote alternative tourism, which enables foreign tourists to take advantage of the benefits of “environment-friendly” ecological tourism, said Federation President Ahmed Ben Taïeb.
He also believes it is important to develop the financing mechanisms used in the alternative tourism sector, which has suffered a number of difficulties due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
For her part, USAID’s representative in Tunisia, Leila Calnan, emphasized that her agency, through this memorandum, would be working to reinforce FTAV’s efforts to promote the alternative tourism sector, all the more so as this sector constitutes a driving force for sustainable development.