Official Tunisia.com Blog

We are every so happy having completed the first day of MIT exhibition in Tunis.

We debuted our new stand new website and ourselves to our potential advertisers at this which is the largest annual tourism show in Tunisia.

We where fortunate to have the time to speak to the director of the show Afif Kchouk who is a very nice man who told us of his ambitions to make the show next year even bigger and better moving it from its current location to the even larger exhibition centre in Kram which will make the show the premier tourism event in Africa.

We arrived on the Wednesday before the show to get started and in true fashion we where putting the finishing touches to the stand literally 5 minutes before the Minister of tourism arrived for his tour of the show. Thankfully all was up in time and we had avery busy show with folks from all over Tunisia coming to see us and tell us about their businesses and also people coming to ask us questions about the website and myself and Hajer. What shocked me was how new we where to everyone and that not many people inside of Tunisia had heard of us which thankfully the MIT show was the first step to addressing this issue.

After 3 busy days the show came to a close yesterday and we headed home to Bizerte very happy not only had we met lots of exciting contacts we had raised the profile of the website, met the minister of tourism (photo to come soon) and Ramzi was on television discussing the website which made his mum so happy.

I will try and get video and photos of all the bits so you can see them and will add them to this post as an when I get them.

I was also fortunate enough to meet up with Essem from the forum who came with her other half to see us at our stand which made me very happy as i love the chance to thank forum members face to face.

I also had the chance to thank Essem for what must be one of the nicest things done by a forum member when she travelled to Tabarka to photograph the grave of another forum members grandfather who lost his life during the second world war in Tunisia. Things like this make me so happy and make it all worth while, Essem and her other half are starting a property consultancy www.aplaceintunisia.com an endeavor in which I wish them all the success in the world.

Kris