Tourism in the city of Sousse, Tunisia: evolution, crisis and regenerative development
Tourism in the city of Sousse, Tunisia: evolution, crisis and regenerative development

Summary/Abstract: Since the 1960s-1970s, mass seaside tourism has developed along the northern coastline of the city of Sousse. At the end of the 1970s, the inauguration of the integrated El Kantaoui tourist resort contributed to the structuring of a new playful centrality in relation to downtown Sousse. Successive crises, notably that linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, have influenced mass seaside tourism in Sousse, as in all classic areas of Tunisia (Hellal, 2021b). In addition to the development of real estate in place of derelict hotels, we are witnessing the regeneration of tourism activity through the emergence of new products: luxury urban tourism, health tourism, home tourism, etc. In this text, our aim is to show the mutations of the tourism sector in Sousse in relation to the urban, under the effect of the crisis. To carry out this research, we used statistics and fieldwork.

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