Tourism in North Africa

  • The future of the tourism in Egypt Accessibility and attracting investors the key issues for tourism industry say industry leaders

    EGYPT, 2016/04/07 Egypt’s major tourism stakeholders are optimistic about the next of the rapidly rebounding sector as the Ministry of Tourism’s strategy takes flight While Egypt and its world-famous attractions may have been a must-visit destination for a lot of people, since the 2011 revolution times have been tough on the tourism industry. The fall in tourist numbers has led to action by the government and the Egyptian Tourism Authority (ETA) in the form of a $68 million campaign that aims to reach 20 million tourists by 2020. However, with the arrival of political stability, Egypt’s tourism sector is presently seeing gradual recovery. 9.9 million tourists came to the country in 2014, up from 9.5 million in 2013. The campaign aims to further increase tourism numbers by focusing on six major areas: marketing, accessibility, cultural development, productivity, business development and new project development.
  • Morocco Bids to Replace Turkey, Egypt as Russian Tourist Destination

    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.
  • Morocco wants more Russian tourists

    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.
  • Tourist numbers in Egypt have plunged in recent months

    EGYPT, 2016/01/08 A string of British airlines have again delayed the resumption of regular flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh following a plane crash before this year. The airlines initial suspended flights next the crash of a Russian airliner near the Red Sea holiday destination on October 31 in which all 224 people on board died. Investigators have concluded it was downed by a bomb and the Islamic National group has claimed responsibility. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the attack had raised doubts about "the capability of the security on the ground" at the airport.
  • Tunisia has been actively restoring its national image

    TUNISIA, 2015/09/29 Tunisia has been actively restoring its national image next the attack on the National Bardo Museum, attempting to revive its crucial tourism industry, local media said on Friday. The museum raid, which left 23 people dead and over 50 others injured, was the majority deadly one since Tunisia's independence from France in 1956. The Islamic National group later claimed responsibility for the attack. While Tunisian authorities were investigating on the identities of the attackers, local citizens spontaneously began mending the spotted image of the historic North African country, according to local media Tunis Times.
  • Discovering Tetouan and its region

    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.
  • Tourism is the real target of the Tunisia attacks: industry set to suffer

    TUNISIA, 2015/08/30 Vast stretches of sand were blank of people along the normally packed beaches of Sousse on Saturday. There were still a few tourists around; they had taken the entirely correct view that the place was safer presently than it has ever been in recent times, having a heavy security presence in the wake of Friday’s massacre. But even these hardy visitors said they would be gone as any minute at this time as their holiday finishes, and the gloomy hotel and restaurant owners do not expect a new wave of custom to follow this summer, or indeed anything like the same numbers for the next season either. It is perhaps surprising that there were so a lot of Western tourists around for the dreadful slaughter. They obviously had not thought that the attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis three months ago, in which 20 foreigners died, meant that they, too, were potential targets. Or perhaps they simply decided approaching despite the risks involved.
  • Egypt hopes to generate $20 billion from tourism by 2020

    EGYPT, 2015/03/31 Egypt hopes to generate $20 billion in revenue from tourism by 2020 by attracting 20 million visitors, new tourism minister Khaled Ramy said on Sunday at an international investment conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. An uprising that toppled leader Hosni Mubarak four years ago hit the economy hard, discouraging investors and tourists and slashing economic increase. Egypt hopes the conference will project an image of stability and help attract billions of dollars. Ramy said that goal was part of strategic plans that include creating two new resorts through nearly $1 billion of investment over five years and hiring a private company to run a three-year advertising campaign.
  • Tunisia’s tourism sector sees a 5% increase in arrivals

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  • Foodie travelers explore the cuisines of Angola, Botswana and DRC

    AFRICA, 2014/11/08 For a lot of travelers, food is the central focus of their journeys. They are often called “foodie travelers,” and enjoy partaking in the various types of food found in the myriad of cultures around the world. How else does one get to take in and savor the culture of a place than through an experience of food that involves all the senses? Hearing the sizzle coming from the kitchen, smelling the aromas of the dishes being prepared, seeing the plates of delightful food being served, tasting the delectable flavors, and in a lot of cases, eating without utensils and reveling in the feeling of picking up one’s food and licking one’s fingers like a delighted child. The fifteen nations of Southern Africa - Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe – offer a wide variety of delicious dishes for the foodie traveler to enjoy. Today, we explore some of the foods of Angola, Botswana, and the Democratic Republic of Congo