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Tourism is currently contributing about 6.25% to Côte d’Ivoire’s GDP thanks to the current tourism infrastructure and investments, Ivorian Minister of Tourism, Siandou Fofana said. According to the minister, the government is now focusing on the strategy “Sublime Côte d’Ivoire” whose implementation, “will list the country among the Top 5 African tourism destinations by 2025.” […]
Travel and tourism remained one of the key growth drivers of Africa’s economy, contributing 8.5% of the GDP in 2018, equivalent to $194.2 billion. According to the 2019 Jumia Hospitality Report Africa, this growth record placed the continent as the second-fastest growing tourism region in the world, with a growth rate of 5.6% after Asia […]
Morocco is set on diversifying its tourist emitting markets with the signing with Chinese tour operator, C Trip, of an agreement that could bring 500,000 tourists annually. The North African country has attracted 12.3 million tourists in 2018 making it the largest African tourism market as it has become the 30th most visited country […]
More than 5.4 million tourists visited Morocco in the first semester of 2019, a 6.6 pc increase compared to the same period last year, according to data released by the Tourism Observatory. The Italians top the list of inbound foreign tourists, representing 12 pc of the overall travelers who visited the North African country during […]
Tunisia’s tourism minister has been named the best tourism minister of the Mediterranean region on the back of the vibrant revival of the North African country’s tourism sector after the industry was nearly knocked down by series of terrorism attacks in 2015. René Trabelsi received the honor from Rossanna Roda, the President of Asigitalia, the […]
Tunisian tourism has scored a 17.4 percent in the number of arrivals in the first quarter of the year, while yearly revenues of the sector have jumped by 35.1 percent from last year’s proceedings. The figures were reported by London-based Asharq Al-Awsat daily, which quoted tourism minister Rene Trabelsi. The increase generated $262.6 million in […]
King Mohammed VI received this Monday, at the Royal Palace in Rabat, Dounia Ben Abbas Tâarji, who was appointed last week President of the Executive Board of the Hassan II Fund for Economic and Social Development. Although the official news agency MAP, which reported the news, did not give any details about the content of […]
Morocco closed 2018 with a record number of 12.3 million tourists visiting the country, that is an 8.3% rise compared with 2017, the tourism ministry said. Tourism revenues rose to 73.15 billion dirhams in 2018, from 69.7 billion dirhams in 2017, making the sector one of the main sources of hard currency for Morocco. With […]
Negotiations are underway for the launch of a direct air route between Morocco and China by the end of 2019, head of Morocco’s tourism promotion office ONMT said. The new link will depart either from Morocco’s economic hub Casablanca or from Marrakech, the Kingdom’s tourism hub towards either Beijing or Shanghai, the ONMT chief said. […]
New data issued by Which?Travel has listed Morocco in the top ten safest countries worldwide, before France or the United States. The ranking, which assesses crime rates, terrorism threats, risk of natural disasters, and health issues in 20 countries, revealed Morocco as a destination as safe as Australia, Canada and japan and safer than Jordan, […]