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Morocco was reckoned Tuesday in Madrid Best Tourism Destination by Spanish La Razon Awards for the efforts and progress made by the Kingdom to develop its beautiful and attractive geographic landscape and cultural and historic heritage. La Razon Awards is an initiative of the Spanish daily La Razon, which reckons each year local and international […]
The People’s Assembly, Algeria’s lower house of parliament, adopted the 37 amendments of the bill on the promotion of investment and limited the controversial and strongly criticized 49:51 investment rule to “strategic sectors” only. The amendments were proposed by the committee of economic, development, industry, trade and planning affairs of the Assembly. The minister of […]
The number of Russian tourists’ arrival in Egypt has dropped by 23.9% in 2015 compared with 2014 figures. “A total of 2.4 million Russian tourists visited Egypt in 2015, down from 3.1 million in 2014,” an official from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism indicated Friday. “The sharp decrease is a direct fallout of the downing […]
King Mohammed VI chaired, on Monday in Dakhla, the launch of several development programs worth nearly $3 billion that will be carried out in the Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab and Guelmim-Oued Noun regions. These outstanding projects are part of the global development model designed for the region and that was announced by the King from the Sahara […]
Tunisian Tourism authorities have announced injection of around 24 billion euros in 2016 to boost the tourism industry which has been seriously hit by two major terrorist attacks leading to an acute slump in the number of international arrivals, reports say. Abdellatif Hmam, Head of the Tunisian Tourism Authority made the announcement on Saturday during […]
Morocco’s Minister of Tourism Lahcen Haddad Saturday picked up World Travel Award in recognition to the kingdom’s massive and promotional campaigns to attract international holidaymakers to the most peaceful North African country. “Honored to have received tonight #worldtravelawards 2015 Outstanding Contribution to Travel & Tourism Industry Award,”Haddad wrote on his twitter account after winning the […]
A group of Algerian businessmen settled in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has formed a think tank in Dubai in an attempt to promote Algeria as a business destination and propose a roadmap to lift the country out of the current economic turmoil. Members of the think tank are seeking to seduce UAE investors as […]
President Beji Caid Essebsi has stated that he is interested in collaborating with partners that will help to solidify Tunisia’s security as he warned that attacking the wall being built at the Tunisian-Libyan borders will be considered as a threat to the country’s security. President Essebsi was speaking to private TV channel Attassia when he […]
In reaction to UK government’s decision to deter its citizens from travelling to North Africa following the Sousse attack, Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid said that the government has improved security for the tourists and that he would call British Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss the issue. As soon as the British foreign Office […]
The Egyptian security forces have botched up Wednesday a new terror plot hatched to deal a hard blow to the tourism sector, one of the major pillars of the economy of the most populous country in the Arab world. The target was this time the ancient Karnak Temple in Luxor, one of Egypt’s world famous […]