{"id":1667,"date":"2024-12-12T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2024-12-12T14:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T14:40:10","slug":"morocco-expects-a-record-15-9-million-tourists-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=1667","title":{"rendered":"Morocco expects a record 15.9 million tourists in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEWS AGENCIES <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the tourism ministry, the tourist industry is celebrating a significant milestone, with 15.9 million visitors registered by the end of November 2024, representing a 20% increase over the same time in 2023.<br>November alone showed a significant surge, with 1.3 million tourists visiting, a 31% increase from the previous year. This increase indicates Morocco&#8217;s rising popularity as a worldwide tourism destination.<br>Moroccan people residing abroad account for a chunk of the growth, with visits increasing by 17%. This surge brought an additional 1.1 million visits, demonstrating the deep bond between Moroccans living abroad and their home country.<br>Tourism accounts for around 7% of Morocco&#8217;s GDP. It is also a significant source of employment and foreign cash, making the industry critical to the country&#8217;s prosperity.<br>To continue drawing visitors, Morocco has increased air connectivity to important markets and is promoting lesser-known places around the country, making it more appealing to a wider variety of holidaymakers.<br>Morocco&#8217;s tourist plan is ambitious. The country intends to welcome 17.5 million tourists by 2026, and 26 million by 2030, when it will co-host the FIFA World Cup alongside Spain and Portugal.<br>These goals reflect Morocco&#8217;s desire to maintain its status as one of the world&#8217;s top tourism destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS AGENCIES According to the tourism ministry, the tourist industry is celebrating a significant milestone, with 15.9 million visitors registered by the end of November 2024, representing a 20% increase&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-regional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}