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Egypt has decided to grant foreign yacht tourists three-month visas, as opposed to the previous one-month allowance, in a move to boost the sector. The Ministry of Transport indicated in a statement issued Tuesday July 25 that the move is meant to remove all obstacles facing foreign yacht tourists along the Egyptian coasts and to […]
More than 7 million tourists visited Egypt during the first half of the year, Tourism and Antiquities Minister Ahmed Issa said Monday. Issa made the announcement during a meeting with the Standing Committee for Licensing of Hotel and Tourism Facilities. He indicated that the figures were achieved thanks to the efforts of the private sector […]
Tangier’s College of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences is organizing a Moroccan-Spanish scientific meeting on circular economy and tourism, in partnership with the International University of Andalusia and in coordination with the Cefal Foundation. Participants to this 3rd edition seek to enable tourism stakeholders, professionals, students, and graduates of specialized tourism institutes to learn about […]
Angola and the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are reportedly inching towards a settlement of a 50-year dispute over one of their offshore oil blocks, which may also pave the way for the expansion of collaboration between the two countries in various sectors. If successful, the deal could help reduce tensions between the […]
Morocco’s tourism sector is showing strong recovery with 5.1 million arrivals in the first five months this year, auguring well for the country’s inflow of hard currency. Arrivals until May are in fact 20% higher than the same period in 2019, the reference pre-covid year. Arrivals in May alone were 55% higher with 1.1 million […]
The operators of luxury Safari camps in Zimbabwe, which charge more than $1,000 a night, have lodged objections against a planned oil exploration program in the country’s UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mana Pools National Park. The Zimbabwean top tourist attraction, the pristine Mana Pools, could be under threat after a mining company applied for a […]
Africa’s travel market is open again and experiencing a boom, despite the serious damage the industry sustained due to the Covid-19 pandemic — this is a sentiment expressed by an estimated 600 exhibitors at the World Travel Market (WTM) Africa, the continent’s biggest and most important travel and tourism event that has officially opened its […]
Morocco announced a road map worth 6.1 billion Dirhams (590 million dollars) to attract 17.5 million tourists and 12 billion dollars in tourism receipts by 2026. The sector has turned the page on the pandemic with arrivals increasing to 11 million in 2022, that is a recovery rate of 84% compared with 2019. The road […]
In their post-Covid recovery plans, East African countries are promoting niche products, such as cruise, adventure, culture and sports tourism, in emerging tourist markets such as China, in a strategy expected to spur growth in the sector. To reduce over-reliance on traditional source markets in Europe and the United States, East African countries are shifting […]
The Moroccan Ministry of Tourism & Handicraft, the Moroccan Society of Tourism Engineering (SMIT) and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) signed, on Friday in Marrakech, a partnership agreement for the promotion of investment and digitalization in the tourism sector in Morocco. The agreement, signed on the sidelines of the thematic session of the 117th Executive […]