Tourism statistics in Morocco

The Moroccan Ministry of Tourism announced on Wednesday, July 5, the number of tourists in Morocco in the last five months of the current year increased by 16 per cent compared with last year. He has visited about 2.09 million tourists in the country that period, including 696 thousand Moroccan immigrant abroad. The ministry said that the highest recorded in Tangier by 31 per cent. In Marrakech, the figure was 27 per cent and 14 per cent in Agadir and 11 per cent in Casablanca and 9 per cent in Meknes and 8 per cent in Rabat and 6 per cent in Essaouira.
Tourism in Morocco recorded a decline in revenues amounted to 43% in early 2002 due to the effects of the events of September 11 in the United States amounted to tourism revenues in the first month of this year, $ 102 million compared to the same period in 2001, with revenues of about $ 179 million.
And works in the Moroccan tourism industry about 620 000 people and was the industry has seen a significant development in the years who scoop September 11 In 2000, tourism revenues increased 28% and reached 8.26 billion dirhams ($ 38.2 billion), but that Morocco aims to receive ten million annually by 2010, tourists from around 2.4 million tourists last year. And trying to Morocco to minimize the negative effects left by the events of September to continue in more projects, work has started since October 2002 for the development of sites for the construction of 36 hotels with about 7 thousand rooms in Marrakech, an investment costing 44.6 billion dirhams as well as some of the projects for many investors.
Morocco may be less harmful than the bad situation of tourism in the world due to the moderation that sets it apart.
Moroccan Tourist Office has set out to identify the most prominent features of the emergency plan to cope with the current crisis, Morocco is able to attract between 5 and 6 million tourists without taking into account the border tourism, which would change to some extent tourism and attract a variety of which an estimated two million tourists increase can Moroccan tourism who are abroad and publicity campaigns studied with priority given to all classes