Tunisia
Mogods Trail Experiences
A community-based operator in Tunisia’s north-west built a trail season that runs beyond the summer — and pays nine guides from the villages it crosses.
- Grant awarded
- €18,000
Measured
What changed
- Visitors hosted
- 500+
- Guides trained and employed
- 9
- Villages on the route
- 4
- Months of season
- 7
The story
The Mogods range in north-west Tunisia has forest, coast and villages that see almost no visitors. What it did not have was anybody selling the walk between them.
An €18,000 grant funded waymarking, safety equipment, guide training and a booking site that takes an international card — the four things that separated an informal weekend walk from a business a European tour operator would list. Marketing focused on shoulder season, because a business that only earns in August is not a business.
The operator now works with four villages, employs nine trained guides and has taken more than 500 visitors along the trail, most of them outside the July–August peak. Guesthouses along the route take the beds.
The trail always existed. What we bought was the ability for somebody in Lyon to book it on a Tuesday.
Your turn
This started with an application
Every business here applied to an open window with the same forms and the same criteria you can read today.