Enfidha-Hammamet airport celebrates its 10th anniversary
Operated by TAV Tunisie, a subsidiary of TAV Airports, a member of Groupe ADP, Enfidha-Hammamet airport constitutes a successful example of the Public-Private Partnership in Tunisia and one of the largest foreign direct investments in the country. It offers a world class services to Tunisia’s visitors and contributes to the promotion of the Tunisian destination.
Enfidha Hammamet international airport celebrated its 10th anniversary in a ceremony held at the airport and attended by the Minister of Tourism and Handicrafts and interim Minister of Transport, high officials of both ministries as well national and local related authorities and airport’s employees and stakeholders.
Operated by TAV Tunisie, a subsidiary of TAV Airports, a member of Groupe ADP, Enfidha Hammamet international airport offers a strategic and convenient entry point for Tunisia’s visitors, at the favor of its ideal location at a crossroad of the country’s major cities and main touristic resorts. It constitutes a successful example of the Public-Private Partnership in Tunisia and one of the largest foreign direct investments in the country with equity contribution and participation of major international financial institutions, in particular the Word Bank through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the African Development Bank.
On the occasion Guclu Batkin, President Director General of TAV Tunisie, said: “We are happy to celebrate today the 10th anniversary of Enfidha- Hammamet airport. This happy occasion gives us the opportunity to look back on the history of our venture and to project ourselves into the future to perceive all that Enfidha Airport can bring to Tunisia’s Tourism and Transport sectors in the decades to come.
In 2007, TAV Airports came to Tunisia with a huge investment at a time where the global economy was going through a severe financial crisis and all international investors were delaying their projects. We were confident in Tunisia's socio-economic prospects and in the ingenuity of the Tunisian people. We are now delighted to realize that we successfully met the challenge and our celebration today cannot be passed without acknowledging all who helped and contributed across the past decade to make this wonderful airport such a pivotal asset for Tunisia.
Mr. Batkin also stated that ever since it received the first passenger aircraft on 4 December 2009, Enfidha Hammamet airport continues to make big strides towards efficiently playing the role it was constructed for; that is offering a world class service to Tunisia’s visitors and contributing to the promotion of the Tunisian destination. During the course, it also distinguished itself as the first environment friendly airport in Tunisia by qualifying to the Carbon accreditation of the ACI (level 3 in 2019) as well as to the ISO accreditation for airport operations and customer satisfaction. We are resolved to keep on this pace of distinction and to project our airport to an even more valuable position within Tunisia’s air transportation infrastructure’’.
During the first ten months of 2019, Enfidha-Hammamet airport handled 7408 air traffic movements operated by 50 airline companies. It served 1.433,303 passengers from 146 airports in 23 countries.
About TAV Airports
TAV Airports provides integrated services in all areas of airport operations, with a global footprint in 28 countries. A member of Groupe ADP, TAV Airports is part of the largest airport management platform globally.
The company operates 14 airports worldwide, Ankara Esenboga, Izmir Adnan Menderes, Gazipasa Alanya, Milas Bodrum and Antalya Airports in Turkey as well as Tbilisi and Batumi Airports in Georgia, Monastir and Enfidha-Hamammet Airports in Tunisia, Skopje and Ohrid Airports in Macedonia, Medinah Airport in Saudi Arabia, Riga Airport in Latvia and Zagreb Airport in Croatia. TAV Airports provided services to one million flights and more than 150 million passengers in 2018.