Southern Tunisia ranks fifth on the list of the top 10 tourist destinations in the world for the year 2024 in the annual rankings of the famous travel and tourism guide Rotar.
The guide ranked among the top ten destinations in the world: Normandy, Slovenia, the Dominica Republic, Montreal, southern Tunisia, Finland, Bolivia, the Gulf of Morbihan, central Vietnam and Thailand.
The southern region of Tunisia is considered a distinguished tourist destination with its palm oases, waterfalls, expansive desert sands, Berber villages with houses carved into rocks, Star Wars movie decorations, and other landmarks and natural areas that made southern Tunisia, nicknamed the Gate of the Desert, a mosaic of natural landscapes attractive to tourists.
The classification prepared by the most famous international tourism guides concerned with tourist destinations did justice to Tunisia, hoping that it would reflect positively on tourism activity in the country in general and in the southern region in particular.
In the past year, Tunisia worked to create alternative destinations for tourists outside the summer and beach tourism season and succeeded in turning towards the desert and oases in the south to diversify the tourism offer with alternative tourist destinations to the traditional destinations associated with the coasts.
It appreciated the diverse nature in the country between deserts, oases and mountains, which contributed to improving the tourism image of the southern governorates.
Tourists like to visit the Chott el-Jrid and the areas of Gurmassa and Matmata, spend time inside the Berber village carved into the mountain, enjoy the picturesque natural scenery at the palm oases and waterfalls, as well as enjoy trips within the Nafzawa deserts and discover the Sidi Zahir mountain range extending between the governorates of Gabes, Medenine and Tataouine.
Tourism in southern Tunisia witnesses a revival in the fall and winter months, when temperatures are moderate and desert tourism activities witness their peak, in addition to the richness of the cultural and heritage stock of the cities of the south, such as the Berber caves of Matmata dug into the mountains and the Chott el-Jerid with changing colors, the largest salt lake on the African continent.
Tunisian tourism in general regained its momentum by the end of 2023, recording 8.8 million tourists, exceeding its last record in 2019 before the outbreak of the Coronavirus epidemic.
