The last armed attack against foreigners wounded eight in a bus load of Austrian tourists in Cairo on Dec. 27.
On 22 February 2008, two Austrian tourists were kidnapped in a military zone in the south of Tunisia, close to the border with Algeria.
It is assumed that the cache was financed by the kidnapping and ransom of two Austrian tourists, who were later freed in November 2008.
Meanwhile, thousands of Hungarian shoppers and Austrian tourists cross the newly opened frontier between the two neighboring countries every week.
Its capital, the only intact antique city in Central Europe, is just a day's drive away for millions of German and Austrian tourists.
The hotel has been tastefully renovated and is usually packed with Austrian and German tourists.
An Austrian tourist was reported killed and his wife seriously injured.
February 22: The Algerian militant group, al-Qaeda, kidnapped two Austrian tourists in Tunisia.
A Yemeni and an Austrian tourist died in the attack.
Austrian tourists regularly report having to insist to curious American hosts that there are no kangaroos in their native land.