Twenty-three people died in Wednesday's attack on the museum, including at least 18 foreign tourists and two gunmen, the Associated Press reported. About 50 people were injured. Tunisian security officials arrested nine people in connection with the attack, for which the militant Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday.
Tunisia's tourism industry -- which employs 472,000 people and makes up 15.2 percent of the country's GDP, according to the Guardian -- had been seeing improvement since taking a hit after the start of the Arab Spring in 2011. Now many fear that tourists will remain home in the wake of the attack.
"That's it for Tunisia, that's it for tourism," one museum guide told French newspaper Libération following the attacks.
But tourists refuse to be cowed by the attacks. People from all over the world are pledging, by selfie, to visit Tunisia this summer, tagging their pictures with #JeSuisBardo and #SelfiesTunisie.
Of course, as the BBC notes, posting a picture on Instagram is not the same as booking flights. But it's a start.
See some of the images, below:
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/20/tunisia-tourism-pledge_n_6909422.html?utm_hp_ref=travel&ir=Travel and provided by entertainment-movie-news.com
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