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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, […]
The number of tourists visiting Morocco between January and August 2018 increased 8% to 8.7 million compared with the same period last year. International tourist arrivals rose 14% while Moroccans living abroad visiting their homeland rose 2%, the tourism ministry said in its latest statistics. Arrivals from main tourist emitting markets showed a 14% increase […]
Morocco officially opened an office to attract more Indian tourists as the North African Kingdom seeks to diversify its tourism emitting markets. “This office of the Moroccan tourism promotion agency will help us in planning various strategic promotional and awareness programs to tap the robust tourism sector in India”, Morocco’s Tourism Minister said in New […]
As more wealthy tourists flock to Morocco, Marrakesh is reinventing itself with luxury hotels and resorts to attract its share, wrote the New York Times in an article on the new attractions of Morocco’s main tourist hub. Marrakech with its centuries-old medina and distinctive charm is lately experiencing the building of a flurry of luxury […]
Some 5.15 million tourists visited Tunisia from January to August, posting a 17.5% increase compared to the same period in 2017. The Tunisian tourism ministry said that tourism revenues during the same period surged by 44%. The recovery of the tourist sector will help ease the country’s financial crisis after the 2015 Sousse terrorist attacks […]
In the first five months of 2018, more than 100,000 Chinese tourists visited Morocco, which lifted the visa on Chinese nationals in 2016. Last year, they were 120,000 Chinese tourists among nearly 11 million tourists who visited the North African kingdom where Chinese restaurants are mushrooming. At the China-Morocco Tourism Forum held in Casablanca in […]
Moroccan low-cost airline, Air Arabia, launched a direct air route between Agadir and Birmingham with the aim of attracting more British tourists to Morocco’s Atlantic tourist hub. The new air link will help boost tourist arrivals to Agadir, which, together with Marrakech, accounted for 60% of tourist nights spent in the Kingdom. Agadir-Birmingham flights are […]