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Regional Violence Causes French to Rethink Trips to Tunisia

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Tunisia lost about a third of its French tourist bookings to cancelation shortly after the beheading last month of a French traveler by Islamist militants in neighboring Algeria, the country's tourism minister said on Monday. Increased political unrest and militant violence in North Africa since the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011 have hit tourism in a region known mainly for its fine Mediterranean beaches and long popular with French travelers. “Within three days we saw 30 percent...

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