Tunisia: Tourism Receipts up 64%

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According to a press release published by the BCT and relayed by TAP

The Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) announced on Friday that cumulative tourist receipts exceeded 1 billion dinars during the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 64% compared to the same period last year.

This is what emerges from a press release published by the BCT and relayed by the Tunis-Afrique Presse agency (TAP/official).

Regarding cumulative labor income, they were around 1.9 billion dinars, against 1.7 billion dinars, at the end of March 2022. As for external debt services, indicates the same source, an increase of 23% was observed, reaching 2.4 billion dinars, during the first three months of the current year. While ”net assets in foreign currency went from 22.7 billion dinars, or 122 days of imports, at the beginning of April 2022, to nearly 22.1 billion dinars, or the equivalent of 95 days of imports ”.

Still according to TAP, the overall volume of refinancing recorded an increase of 46.8%, with 16.5 billion dinars, as of March 7, 2023.