This will include hotels, with the two ministries setting out security requirements that the hotels will be obliged to put in place.

These will be implemented in collaboration with international specialists, including experts from Germany.

It comes after Abdellatif Hamam, director general of the Ministry of Tourism and Handicrafts, told TTG at WTM London that Tunisia was working with European countries – including the UK – as well as the US, to boost its security. Hamam said security had been placed top of the agenda and was now included as a priority in hotel inspections, which he said were carried out regularly by the country’s 168 hotel inspectors.

Meanwhile, the British government announced this month that its embassy in Tunis is funding a UK company to establish “strategic planning units” within the Interior Ministry to support security strategic planning in Tunisia.

The project, which first started in October 2014, has seen staff complete a one-year training course, and is designed to aid the ministry in tackling security threats and terrorism in the country.