Moroccan Tourism Minister Fatima Zahra Amour revealed that the number of tourist arrivals during the period between January and April last year increased by 216 percent on an annual basis, with the resumption of air travel strongly.
She pointed out that "the number of foreign visitors amounted to about 1.5 million tourists, while the hard currency income from tourism amounted to 14.62 billion dirhams (1.5 billion dollars) during the same period, that is, a growth rate of 123 percent year-on-year, and a total number of overnight stays amounted to 2.9 million, an increase of 82 percent.
The government expects that more than 4.5 million tourists will visit this year, thanks to traditional bookings and flights.
Tourism was one of the areas most affected in Morocco by the Corona pandemic, and to save it, the government provided financial support more than once to workers in the sector. To mitigate the effects of the crisis, which was exacerbated by a complete suspension of flights between the end of last year and the beginning of 2022, the government allocated two billion dirhams (about two hundred million dollars) in monthly subsidies to regular employees.
Source (Al-Arab Newspaper of London, Edited)
