On a year-on-year basis, these receipts firmed up by 628.4%, instead of a 56% drop a year earlier, specifies the DEPF in its recent economic report.
In the same vein, we recall, a framework agreement for the deployment of the strategic roadmap for tourism 2023-2026 was signed during the month of March. This roadmap aims, by 2026, to attract 17.5 million tourists, to reach 120 billion in foreign exchange earnings, to create 80,000 direct and 120,000 indirect jobs, in addition to repositioning tourism as a key sector. in the national economy. This roadmap has a budget envelope of 6.1 billion dirhams.
Thus, the number of tourist arrivals to the destination “Morocco” increased by 13.6% in January 2023, following increases of 16% in December, 10.1% in November and 15.1% in October. 2022, according to the same source.
This improvement was driven by sustained growth in arrivals of Moroccans residing abroad – MRE (+45.4%), mitigated, however, by the decline in those of foreign tourists by 7.2%, following +3, 5% a month earlier, explains the DEPF in its recent note on the economy.
In January 2022, the number of tourist arrivals fell by 98.6% compared to January 2019, in connection with the closure of national borders to counter new variants of the corona virus.
