Official Tunisia.com Blog

We finished our second major exhibition in a month at the weekend and this time it was the Meditour exhibition in Yasmine Hammamet which was located in the excellent Medina complex.

The exhibition was a conference for tourism in the Med and also was an opportunity for Tunisia to host VIPs from around the region and show them what we have to offer.

We had a smaller stand this time near the entrance of the exhibition and we got to meet various vips including ministers and also the Director of the Mallorcan chamber of commerce who ironically new my granddad who lives there what a small world!

Me shaking hands with the Minister with AK (Hajers father) and Ramzi.

The minister thanked us for making the website and said how much he liked it which was nice, however i reminded him how much more we we have to do to get it looking as it should.

The conference itself was interesting with the subject being what was happing to tourism in the med with some key points.

• Economic problems in Europe will have an effect.



• Tourism is changing with people wanting to build their own holidays and also explore more.



• Customers want to have more relaxation in the form of beauty treatments etc



• Customers want more options such as fishing hiking etc



• Customers increasingly like the flexibility of renting apartments over hotels



• Tunisia has massive incoming investment from the gulf

I was happy as i left as i thought tunisia.com is key to some of those points as we try and provide a platform via our directories and travel guides to try and provide information to visitors in excess of what they would find in other places and with this information in mind we will work harder still to make the site better.

Hotel Zodiac

For the three days we where at the exhibition we stayed at the four star hotel zodiac in Hammamet yasmine as the gave us a good deal for the stay and also it is very close to the Medina complex.

The Zodiac is a small hotel in a secondary position behind the beach hotels and small still than the Yasmine Marina Palace hotel which I have previously stayed at.

The hotel is unassuming from the front and in among the massive hotels of the area you could be forgiven for missing it.

I have said before that I love small hotels and thankfully the zodiac provided us with the perfect base for the exhibition when you enter the hotel you are met with a warm welcome and this extends to the animation team who even though noticed we where no business (and thus no fun) all said hello in fact all staff where friendly and concerned that we where having a good time which is very important and the easiest thing in the world.

We went for Half board and as we arrived in the evening we went right to the restaurant which is and nice relaxed with a bright and clean dinging room. The food was good without being excellent with the exception of the fish which everyone (aside from fish hater me) loved.

We then walked through the halls to the room which where all very clean and spacious though some elements where a little tiered such as old rugs etc which though very clean where showing a bit of age.

The rooms also where very clean and of a good size with a nice view of the pool and balcony however again showing age a little bit but nice at the price.

The pool areas of the hotel where well maintained and provided a good size indoor and outdoor poll and a small pool in which Sara had her first swim ever!

• Nice small hotel in hammamet



• Good value given we negotiated 40TD pppn HB



• Very clean and airy



• Very nice staff and other customers seemed to enjoy the activities

If you get a good deal I recommend the Zodiac as a nice simple hotel walking distance from everything in central Yasmine. It does the simple things well and provides a friendly atmosphere for your stay.