Tunisia sees tourist numbers rebound decade after attack

Ten years after a beach attack that killed 30 Britons and delivered a crippling blow to Tunisia’s tourism industry, European holidaymakers are finally returning in what authorities hope will be record-breaking numbers.

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In June 2015, a Tunisian university student slipped a rifle out of a beach umbrella and opened fire on vacationers outside a hotel in Sousse, about 140 kilometres (90 miles) south of the capital.

The shooting, claimed by the Daesh group, left 38 people dead, most of them British, just months after another attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis killed 21 foreign visitors.

The violence sent a shockwave through Tunisia’s tourism industry, devastating one of the country's most important sources of jobs and foreign currency.