After an absence of eight years, Costa Favolosa cruise ship of “Costa Cruises” docked at La Goulette Port on Tuesday coming from Palermo (Italy), with 2350 tourists on board. Built in 2011, Costa Favolosa is one of the largest cruise ships in the Mediterranean and counts 1,508 cabins. It is 290 metres long and comprises 17 storeys. Founded in the 1940s, the Costa Cruises company is one of La Goulette Port’s oldest customers and has been operating trips to Tunisia since the 1980s. This resumption of activity by Costa Cruises to Tunisian ports is very important, Director General of La Goulette Shipping Cruise (GSC) Sami Debbiche told TAP. “This is the fruit of two years of negotiations with this company which suspended its trips to Tunisia following the Bardo Museum terrorist attack in March 2015,” he added. Two other cruises by the same company are scheduled for November 2023 and nine more for 2024, pending further intensive scheduling in the years ahead, “Tourists, accompanied by foreign journalists, will have the opportunity to visit the port’s tourist village, the surrounding tourist sites or the Bardo Museum,” he pointed out. The Costa Cruises had made over 100 trips to La Goulette Port by the end of 2010, with more than 250,000 tourists on board, accounting for 25% of the total number of visitors arriving at La Goulette on leisure cruises, he recalled.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse