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Tourism and development

Development plans designed to sustain the development of Tunisian tourism have considered both new tendencies in terms of trends and requirements as well as the development and conservation of the human and natural environments. This considers the adequacy between already set or planned urbanization projects and the natural environment. Said plans were supported by a wide range of infrastructures designed to balance and rationalize regional development, in order to ensure the best possible balance between all various factors and the economic productivity and sustainability.
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The tourism territorial organization is based on the following general objectives :

Adoption of beds distribution criteria considering the necessity of not increasing excessive density values.

Concern not to fill the coastal band through an excessive development

Avoid congestion of areas and saturation of the country’s physical resources, and consequently the degradation of the natural and tourist environments hence jeopardize long term development opportunities.

Development plans refer to territorial management and are the result of a series of scaled and timely interventions aiming at ensuring balance between tourism products and possible demand levels. Interventions are based on criteria for the development and conservation of the natural and human environment, as well as on the organization of tourism activities according to standards regulating the use of areas. Besides, they must fulfill technological criteria while ensuring their economic profitability.

Today, our development model depends on the location and size of rooming structures, and also covers the definition of all additional facilities and installations (Golf courses, Marinas, entertainment centers), and infrastructures according to various types of requests (foreign or domestic tourism, winter or summer programs, etc..)

This has required a policy that goes beyond the passive operation of natural possibilities to adopt a development program directly integrated in the general development process of tourism areas.

Development plans now aim at using the whole coastal band designed for the tourism industry , while integrating other economic and social activities, thereby breaking with the current development linear model focusing on a very narrow band located along the beach and reserved for tourists.

 
Last Update 29/09/2011