After the kidnappings of tourists last year in the Tunisian desert, and the current hostage situation in Mali, what effect do you believe these actions have on local and regional economies? What can be done to protect the tourism industry from any fallout?
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Tourism stuck between the reluctance of investors and the specter of terrorism (Comments: 0)
By: Mohamed Yehdih Ould Baba Ahmed
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Hostage-taking: An epiphenomenon? (Comments: 0)
By: Mohamed Bergaoui
In recent years, tourism has become a problem area. If epidemics and other pandemics were the main evils of a time almost gone, terrorism is now the main handicap for… more
Wherever terrorism lands, tourism leaves (Comments: 1)
By: Mahmoud Belhimer
Wherever terrorism lands, tourism leaves. This rule applies to the Arab Maghreb, and all countries where terrorist attacks happen, for example: Indonesia (the Bali bombings that caused 202 deaths in… more
Cooperation is the solution for the states of the region against terrorism (Comments: 0)
By: Iqbal Al Gharbi
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commentsacharif moulay abdellah bouskraoui About over 3 years ago
We must encourage tourism, and we must also show zero tolerance while dealing with any terrorist act. The Maghreb countries are expected to create a common anti-terrorism unit, and a close collaboration between different information services to surround the terrorists… Here I see that the support of Europe’s information services and the support of America as well, may be of great help, either directly by satellite, given their developed eavesdropping and detection programs, which continuously control the movements of troops and traffickers in the southern Sahara region…
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