Hammamet is a city located on the south-eastern coast of the course Bon at 60 kilometers at the south of Tunis.
Attached to the governorship of Nabeul, it constitutes a municipality of 63.116 inhabitants (a number which quadruples in summer)
and extends on a surface from 3600 hectares. It forms with the agglomeration of Nabeul a bipolar conurbation of 185.000 inhabitants.
It is often presented like a seaside resort, one of principal of Tunisia. The recent development of the marina of Yasmine Hammamet
reinforces the importance of tourist industry in the local economy. Indeed, famous since half of the XXe century,
the city offers to the tourists long beaches along the gulf bearing its name.