Destination Algeria highlighted at 38th World Tourism Exhibition in Paris

The National Office of Tourism (ONT) and the Algerian National Tourism Company (ONAT), Algeria’s leading tour operator are participating since Friday at the 38th edition of the World Tourism Exhibition in the French capital. "Through its participation in the four-day event, ONAT aims at highlighting three main tourism products for different types of customers," ONAT Director General Selatnia Mohamed Cherif told APS. "We aim at developing a tourism strategy for the nationals settled abroad, promoting the tourism of memory, especially as many French pieds-noirs wish to visit Algeria, and encouraging adventure," he explained. Algeria’s participation in the world tourism show is an opportunity to meet again its former partners and forge new business relations. For his part, ONT Director General Rachid Chelloufi said that the area reserved for Algeria at the exhibition (60 square metres) "is insufficient given the great interest showed the visitors to the destination Algeria.