Moroccan tourists continue to be the driving force of tourists in Agadir. The pearl of the South has indeed welcomed 62,583 tourists from Morocco, far from foreign tourists.
Sino-Moroccan cooperation is intensifying more and more each year. According to figures made public by the Head of Government, Saad Eddine El Othmani, Chinese tourists are flocking in impressive numbers to the Kingdom since 2016 when the country decided to exempt Chinese tourists from visas.
Morocco and the Philippines have started negotiations over the past week that have resulted in the opening of direct air links between the two countries. Good news for Moroccan tourism and for the economic and social relations between the two States.
A sexual assault on a young French tourist led to the closure of two restaurants on the mythical Jemaa El-Fna square in Marrakech. The perpetrator, despite his connections in the tourism industry, was placed in custody for the purposes of the investigation.
Moroccans seem to have chosen their dream destination. Indeed, more than 120,000 of them visited Turkey during the first nine months of 2019, thus placing the Kingdom in third place among African countries whose citizens like to spend their vacations there.
Morocco ranks 66th out of 140 countries, thus falling back one place in the Global Index established by the World Economic Forum (WEF). This is revealed by the 2019 Global Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Ranking, which also indicates that the kingdom nevertheless shows better scores at the regional level, in certain sub-indices.
In Agadir to spend a few vacation days, a British tourist was found dead on Friday, September 6, on the beach of Tiguert.
The Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) and C Trip, China’s leading online travel agency, signed a three-year co-marketing partnership on Friday, September 6. Its objective is to strengthen the flow of Chinese tourists to Morocco.
The months of June, July and August were very profitable for the ochre city. Indeed, with the massive arrival of tourists, Marrakech will have achieved a record summer with an occupancy rate of 63% in the first half of the current year.
Tourism revenues have seen a marked increase between 2016 and 2018. French, German, American, Italian and Chinese tourists are the major contributors.
Very good news for Moroccan tourism, whose players can rub their hands. According to statistics from the Tourism Observatory (OTM), more than 5.4 million tourists, including more than 2 million Moroccans residing abroad (MREs), visited Morocco between January and June 2019.
Tourists have again been very numerous to visit Agadir during the first half of this year. A 5.25% increase was recorded, compared to the same period last year, with the French being the top visitors.