2016 witnessed the launch of the Kingdom’s historic Vision 2030 and the accompanying National Transformation Programme, both of which call for a major overhaul of the state’s economic apparatus and envision a more open market framework and more dynamic, private sector-led growth moving ahead.
A series of investments in the ecotourism and heritage segments are beginning to yield results in Sharjah’s expanding family tourism industry.
Welcoming more than 10m tourists annually since 2014, Morocco is Africa’s number-one tourism destination in terms of foreign arrivals. This comes on the back of a decade of steady development under the framework of two successive sector development plans, Vision 2010 and Vision 2020 aimed at structuring and consolidating the tourism industry...
In a bid to attract 1.5m additional visitors by 2018, the Moroccan National Tourism Office (Office National Marocain du Tourisme, ONMT) rolled out a Dh400m (€36.7m) investment plan in 2015 aimed at diversifying its source markets through two main channels: improving Morocco’s air connectivity – with a projected opening of 57 new air routes –...
What can be done to increase the attractiveness of Casablanca as a travel destination? KABBAJ: Casablanca is the first destination in Morocco for business and cruise tourism. It is also the third tourism destination overall after Marrakech and Agadir. However, despite its mythic name – once featured in a cult movie – strong...
Welcoming more than 10m tourists annually since 2014, Morocco is Africa’s top tourism destination by foreign arrivals, the result of a decade of steady development under the framework of two successive sector development plans, Vision 2010 and Vision 2020. Despite an increasingly challenging regional environment, the sector has proved resilient thanks to the kingdom’s political stability, with...
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