A HOTEL where British tourists were massacred in an ISIS attack two years ago has reopened.

The owner of the former Imperial Marhaba hotel in the Mediterranean resort of Sousse said the beachfront property had been given an overhaul with "a view to the future" and to remove its association with the horrifying terror attack.

Zohra Driss told The Associated Press that the hotel was renamed Kantaoui Bay to erase "the painful memory of the drama" of June 26, 2015.

On that day the hotel at Port El Kanaoui was hosting 565 guests when Seifeddine Rezgui launched an attack on people on the beach.

He used a Kalashnikov assault rifle he had concealed in a beach umbrella to fire at tourists.

The terror killer said he would not kill Tunisians or Muslims – so locals formed a human wall to protect tourists.

He then entered the hotel, gunning down tourists who crossed his path.

He also used grenades during his cowardly rampage.

The attacker had spoken to his father on a mobile, which was then thrown into the sea before he began to fire.

In total 38 people were killed, 30 of them British.

It was the second attack that year targeting tourists in Tunisia, and the country's tourism industry has yet to recover.

Rezgui was a 23-year-old electrical engineering student.

He was studying at the University of Kairouan, in northwest Tunisia. He had a girlfriend, drank alcohol and was a local break-dancing star.

It is thought he may have been high on cocaine during the attack.

He is believed to have been radicalised over issues such as the Libyan Civil War and Western inaction against the Assad government.

He was killed during the attack by police.

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