Tunisia - Aeroflot Airlines, the largest Russian airline, will resume its flights to Tunisia from May 30, 2023, the company announced in a statement published on its official website.

These new regular flights will be operated from Moscow on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays to Enfidha-Hammamet International Airport (Tunisia), it added.

"Flights to the famous Mediterranean resort will be operated three times a week by Airbus A330 wide-body aircraft," the company said.

Tunisia attracts travellers every year with its developed tourist infrastructure and the tourist season lasts until the end of October, the same source said.

At the end of February 2022, Moscow announced the closure of its airspace to flights from 36 countries, in response to the ban imposed on flights operated by Russian carriers or registered in the country by European countries.

Aeroflot Airlines had suspended all international flights except those to the Belarusian capital Minsk since March 8, 2022, due to the Russian-Ukrainian war and the circumstances that prevented its flights from becoming operational.

The Russian market remains important as it favours a certain balance in terms of the seasonality of tourist activity, especially as it is a market less vulnerable to crises, according to the academic and expert in the tourism sector, Moez Kacem.

Kacem recalled that the Russian market has monopolised, in 2019, about 21% of overnight stays in hotels before suffering the repercussions of the war with Ukraine.

This market, he added, records a significant demand for the Tunisian destination and could support the resumption of the regular rhythm of the tourist trade.

In 2019, Tunisia welcomed more than 630 thousand Russian tourists, according to the Ministry of Tourism and Handicrafts. In 2020 and 2021, the number of tourists regressed due to the health crisis. In fact, only 90 thousand Russian tourists visited Tunisia during this period.

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