Morocco's tourism sector notes positive recovery rates, exceeding pre-COVID era

Morocco's tourism sector notes positive recovery rates, exceeding pre-COVID era
Friday 12 May 2023 - 10:06

The national tourism sector is performing well, both in terms of arrivals and revenues, at a time when tourism worldwide is struggling to recover its pre-crisis levels.

Indeed, at the end of March 2023, Morocco welcomed 2.9 million tourists, a growth of 17% compared to the same period of 2019.

As for the revenues, they have reached the record figure of 25 billion dirhams, up 51% compared to 2019, said a statement by the Ministry of Tourism, Handicrafts and Social Economy and solidarity.

In this sense, the Minister of Tourism Fatim-Zahra Ammor stressed that “our country has taken the right decisions at the right time.”

“The sector has been established as a national priority and all actions implemented have not only strengthened the resilience of the sector during the crisis but also accelerated the recovery, despite a difficult international economic context, “said Ammor, quoted in the statement.

According to the World Tourism Organization’s global tourism barometer, global arrivals in the first quarter of 2023 are down 20% compared to 2019. Apart from the Middle East, which is up 15%, all regions of the world continue to show double-digit declines, reflecting the difficulty of recovering arrivals in an increasingly competitive global arena (-10% for Europe, -46% for Asia, -14% for America, -12% for Africa …).

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