History

In June 2004, TAV airports submitted the pre-qualifying documents for the international offer announced by the Tunisian government to construct the airport. In July 2004, seven companies, including TAV airports, were prequalified to participate in the tender. In May 2007, the Tunisian Ministry of Transport announced TAV airports as the best bidder and the BOT concession Agreement was signed with the related state authorities with approximately 500 million Euros were invested. During the same year, TAV Tunisie S.A has been established and in July 2007 it started the construction of the projected Enfidha Hammamet International Airport. After a record period time (823 days), Enfidha Airport was completed and started its operations in December 2009.  

The passenger capacity of Enfidha-Hammamet International Airport currently stands at 7 million passengers per year, with plans to gradually expand this to 22 million through strategic investments. This development aims to position Enfidha as one of the leading aviation hubs in Africa.

In 2019, considered the reference year before the COVID-19 pandemic, the airport handled 1.453 million passengers. However, due to the global health crisis, traffic dropped sharply to just 0.1 million in 2021. A strong recovery began in 2023, with passenger numbers reaching 0.8 million. The upward trend continued into 2024, which marked a significant rebound, recording 1.3 million passengers, nearly returning to pre-pandemic levels.

Realized as a greenfield investment covering a terminal building complete with its open car park, a runway, apron and taxi ways, Enfidha-Hammamet Airport has all infrastructure works in place to allow the operations to be carried out safely at international standards.

The installation of a tri-generation system enabled the airport to provide its own power generation. After adhering to Airport Council International (ACI) Africa in 2012, expertise and know how at the African Continent level paved the way for Enfidha Hammamet airport towards better achievements in terms of efficiency in operations with respect to international measures of environment protection.  It started in 2013, when Enfidha-Hammamet airport distinguished itself as the first airport in the African continent to receive level (1) “Mapping” of carbon accreditation. Then, in 2014, it further assured its position as a leading environment-friendly airport at local and continental levels by earning level (2) “Reduction”. Moreover, it continued to climb higher to level (3) “Optimization” In 2021 and level 3+ “Neutrality” in 2023. Recently, in April 2024 Enfidha-Hammamet airport received the Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) level 4 “Transformation".