Moroccan tourism revenues amounted to MAD 15.9 billion during the third quarter of 2021, according to the Directorate of Studies and Financial Forecasting (DEPF).
The revenues constitute a 202% rise compared to those recorded during Q3 of 2020, in the first year of the pandemic in Morocco. These revenues remain down 40.2% compared to the same period in 2019.
The annual decline in tourism revenues has eased to a 6.1% decrease for the first nine months of 2021, after a 58.1% decline was recorded back in 2021.
Compared to their level at the end of September 2019, they declined by 58.9%.
In September 2021 alone, these revenues continued the improvement which first started in June, recording an overall annual improvement of 158.4%, 289.7% in August, 144.2% in July, and 15.2% in June.
As for overnight stays and tourist arrivals, they reached 2.9 million and 1.63 million respectively in the first two months of Q3-2021, compared to 1.08 million and 1.58 million in the same period in 2020 and 5.52 million and 3.87 million in 2019.
By the end of August 2021, the number of arrivals increased by 16.2% to 2.1 million arrivals, while the number of overnight stays fell slightly by 0.5% to 5.6 million.
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