With Bullet Holes, Empty Beaches Tunisian Tourism Outlook Bleak

Tunisian shopkeeper Aghmi Bubaker doesn't need to be told that he is experiencing the worst threat yet to his 40-year career in tourism - the bullet hole in his battered green Mercedes Benz is a daily reminder. Last Friday when a gunman attacked the Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse in the name of Islamist militancy, Bubaker rushed dozens of vacationers into his store until the shooting - in which 39 foreign tourists were killed - was over. Now, looking at his car and bullet holes...

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