Tunisia welcomes more Chinese tourists

The first Chinese charter-flight tour group arrived in Tunisia on Tuesday, as the North African country looks to attract more visitors from the world's largest tourist market.

The tour route for the group of 165 covers Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, and was organized by China Youth Tourism Service, one of the biggest tour operators in China.

Song Chenxi, a tour group member who lives in Beijing, said she was impressed by the "half sea, half desert" aspect of her first trip to Tunisia in 2012, which prompted her to take her husband on a second visit to the North African country.