“The cumulative debts, for 35 years, of tourist units, increase to 4 billions, of which 58% of bank interests”, indicated the first vice-president of the Tunisian Federation of tourist restaurants (FTRT), Fouad Bouslama .
The vice-president of the Tunisian Hotel Federation (FTH), Hichem Idriss, for his part, denied the accusations of embezzlement abroad by hoteliers “, specifying that the majority of the owners of establishments tourists are “patriots”. “The embezzlement abroad has become impossible with the new measures of the FATF,” he said.
In a statement to “JDD Tunisia”, the deputy Noomane El Euch Previously indicated that “the governor of the Central Bank had asked where the tourist funds were located, which testifies to a problem of” embezzlement “of funds abroad . For example, travel agencies save or keep some of their money abroad. Therefore, the Central Bank’s Financial Analysis Committee needs to make more effort in relation to travel agencies and hotel establishments ”
