Situated in northwest Tunisia close to the Algerian border, Tabarka was supposed to be Tunisia's flagship resort on the north coast.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, the Tunisian government plowed millions of pounds into creating a purpose-built holiday town with its own international airport. Although it is quite popular in the peak summer months with Continental visitors, it has still to win favor with the British market and is completely dead in autumn and winter. Its future may lie in promoting itself as a diving destination. It offers some of the most exciting dive sites in the Mediterranean including Tunnels Reef - an extraordinary complex of caves, caverns and gullies.