الخميس، 21 أغسطس 2014

Political stability leads the tourist boom in Morocco


Morocco is witnessing a remarkable improvement in the tourism sector, in the current period, after a period of stagnation following the events taking place in the flaming countries of the Maghreb neighbors, especially Libya. 


Tourism plays an important role in the economy of Morocco, where is the core of the service sector in Morocco. 


Sources responsible tourism, that tourism revenue in Morocco rose to 31 billion dirhams (about 3.8 billion dollars) during the first seven months of the year, no more than 4.3% compared to the same period last year. 


According to the sources, visited the Moroccan cities of more than five million tourists, including expatriates, also increased the number of foreign tourists about 10%, especially the British and the Germans and the Italians and the French and the Belgians and Spaniards, who make up the bulk of the tourists, as well as Arabs, Americans, Japanese, Chinese and Russians. 


The Ministry of Tourism is expected to reach the end of the year the number of tourists about 10 million, on revenues amounting to around 60 billion dirhams, making it the second most important source of hard currency, along with remittances, estimated at more than 33 billion dirhams until last June. 



Morocco and betting on the success of the current tourist season which has seen a rise in demand for hotels and resorts, exceeding the capacity of the hotel units. 


Club twentieth 

And performs Morocco tourism plan ambitious cost more than 14 billion dollars, in partnership financial with boxes Gulf, including «Wesal Capital», for the construction and hotel units and villages and equipment tourist willing to attract 20 million tourists annually beginning of the next decade, which will raise revenue to more than 18 billion dollars. 


The Minister of Tourism Hassan Haddad, in a press statement, that Morocco is determined to join the club of the twentieth and the first tourist destination in the world in the year 2020. 


Haddad explained, that it is not far-fetched, because Morocco is available on multiple qualifications; especially political stability and proximity to the largest exporting markets for tourists. 


The Minister expressed his satisfaction after Morocco's success in attracting 10 million tourists in 2013, an increase of 6% compared with the year 2012, despite difficult economic conditions. 


Village cinema 

According to Moroccan sources in the tourism sector, is expected to witness a city of Ouarzazate known Hollywood Morocco, during the coming weeks, the announcement of the requests for bids for the completion of a field study of interest to create a project village Snimaúah on an area of ​​200 hectares, in the framework of supporting gravity and tourist Senymaúah of the city along the lines of the village Senymaúah PLoS Angeles. 


Abdul Razak said Zitouni, director of "Committee for film and Ouarzazate" in a press statement, said that the idea of ​​the film was the village project fell within the scheme of the Commission on the film, and it would be along the lines of the village of Los Angeles and corresponding in Eastern Europe. 


He highlighted that the Regional Council for the provinces, "Massa-Draa," devoted a cover financially of half a million dirhams for the completion of the study, as that province, the city has allocated a spot of land for this project, which will be depending on his area integrated to attract more of the productions of the film, and especially the American and European. 


And on the level of tourism, contributed to the foreign film production Ouarzazate, in the lifting of the proportion of publicly-level hotels increased by 52 per cent, it is out of 6,000 beds have been booked through 1500 bed the previous six months.

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