Britain warns its citizens to travel to Tunisia

In its report on travel to areas threatened by terrorism on 24 April 2017, the British government confirmed that it has not changed its assessment of the level of the terrorist threat in Tunisia.
 
The British government warned of information published about travel to Tunisia calling on its citizens not to travel to it except in extreme cases. 

The government pointed out in the report on its website to three areas it considers dangerous and under the terrorist threat: the Cha'anbi Mountains National Park area (a designated military operations zone), the Tunisia-Algeria border crossing points at Ghardimaou, Hazoua and Sakiet Sidi Youssef, the militarised zone in the south, but not including, the towns of El Borma and Dhehiba within 5km of the Libya border area from north of Dhehiba up to but not including the Ras Ajdir border crossing.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advises all travelers to be cautious when traveling to Tunisia on their flight to Britain, noting that there is no direct travel to Britain except from the airports of Enfidah and Monastir, while direct travel is available for six days from Carthage International Airport.

The University of Tunisian travel agencies has spoken on more than one occasion about sufferings of the agencies and the tourism sector in general, especially in southern Tunisia, which was declared a red zone by foreign embassies. These sufferings led many travel agency owners were forced to lay off workers.

Terrorism not only affected investment, security and economy, but also affected the tourism sector. Concerns are growing over the border areas following the discovery of weapons stores in southern Tunisia and other things that have taken place there, which have led to the classification of southern Tunisia as a red zone in foreign embassies, making tourists reluctant to come to Tunisia.