Tourism in Morocco
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EGYPT, 2016/04/03
The North African kingdom wants to quintuple the number of Russian tourists within three years. 31 March 2016
Additional nations are seeking to exploit Egypt’s and Turkey’s tourism woes by making inroads into the Russian sun-and-sand package tour business.
Morocco has joined the race, revealing plans to attract far larger numbers of Russian tourists, Moroccan Minister of Tourism Lahcen Haddad says.
“Russia offers us a large opportunity. We want to increase the number of arrivals from Russia by 400 %, from 40,000 per year to 200,000 per year, over three years,” Haddad says as reported by Bloomberg.
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CASABLANCA, 2016/04/03
The Ministry of Tourism of Morocco is planning to attract additional travelers from Russia, China and West Africa next a significant decline in tourism from Europe. The opening up of new air routes is underway, according to the minister Lahcen Haddad.
“We want to increase the number of arrivals from Russia from 40,000 to 200,000 per year over three years,” said Haddad, pointing out that Russia offered Morocco large opportunities.
Tourism from Europe has declined significantly in recent years due to the turmoil in traditional holiday destinations in the Middle East. Instability in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia since the Arab Spring inclunding recent terrorist attacks in Turkey are keeping European travelers away.
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MOROCCO, 2015/09/28
Entirely renovated recently, Sofitel Tamuda Bay offers an oasis of calm and voluptuousness on one of the majority beautiful bays of the Mediterranean.
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ALGIERS, 2014/08/18
Despite the growing tension between Morocco and Algeria, Algerians consider their neighbor part the top 5 of their favorite destinations.
According to the Algerian daily L’Expression, Morocco remains the third favorite destination for Algerians.
Speaking to L’Expression, Amine, a manager of a travel agency in Algiers Centre, said that “the top destinations are Turkey, Tunisia, Spain and Morocco.”
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MOROCCO, 2014/02/14
Morocco expects European holidaymakers to lead an 8 % rise in tourist arrivals in 2014, as it looks to China and Turkey to help drive further increase in the second-biggest sector of its economy.
“We expect tourism receipts to increase by 4 %,” Tourism Minister Lahcen Haddad said in a telephone interview from his office in Rabat. “We will provide incentives to local hoteliers to help them resist wild price cuts they had imposed on them because of the economic crisis in the euro zone.”
To guarantee next increase of an industry that plays a key role in shoring up national gain, Morocco plans to establish direct flights with China in 2015, Haddad said. Boosting arrivals from Turkey and Brazil is as well on its radar, he said.
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CASABLANCA, 2013/05/26
Additional than half of Morocco's 9 million annual arrivals come from just two nations, Spain and France, but both have suffered economic crises and there have been drops in the number of people coming from those nations.
Lahcen Haddan told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that Morocco is hoping to attract additional visitors from Britain, Germany, and Saudi Arabia.
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EGYPT, 2013/03/28
Additional than 40,000 new rooms across 207 hotels are currently being built by African hotel developers, according to estimates by a hospitality consultancy. And while much of the hospitality development in Africa was formerly concentrated in the five North African nations of Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, the tide has turned and a lot of of the new projects are presently focused on Sub-Saharan Africa, according to W Hospitality Group, based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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MOROCCO, 2012/12/27
With ski season just around the corner, consider heading to of these unusual ski spots this year. Forget the crowds in the French Alps or Aspen and try the slopes of Morocco or Dubai.
Morocco is normally associated with spice markets and camel-back desert tours, but those looking for some unusual slopes can chief 80 kilometers south from Marrakesh to the Oukaimeden Ski Resort, located in the Atlas Mountains at 3,000 meters altitude, making it the highest ski resort in Africa.
