Million fewer tourists visit Tunisia this year after Islamist attacks

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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - The number of foreign tourists in Tunisia dropped by 20 percent to four million in the first eight months of the year after two Islamist attacks that killed dozens of Western visitors, the tourism minister said on Monday. Tunisia, for which foreign tourism is an important contributor to gross domestic product, has been under a state of emergency since the attacks. Thirty-eight people were killed by a gunman at a hotel in Sousse on the Mediterranean coast in June, three months after 21 tourists were killed by gunmen attacking the Bardo National Museum in the capital Tunis.

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