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The global financial and economic crisis has caused severe problems to many sectors of the economy, including the tourist business. For any destination like Morocco, whose main causes of earnings are travel and leisure, mainly from EU countries and also the USA, and the flow of transfers by Moroccans Living Abroad (MLAs), this crisis may seem a like a real threat to the economy, that received a traveller revenue of 57 billion dirhams in 2008, approx. 20% of their GNP. This external link was removed for your protection

Many of the obvious as we take into account that revenues from tourism have dropped by 20% within the first months of 2009 according to the same period in 2008, from 4.33 to 3.46 vast amounts of dirhams. But the Moroccan tourist industry has the possibility to avoid the negative effects from the crisis, as well as enjoy the changes undergone through the sector. According to the Moroccan Secretary of state for Tourism, 7.878.639 tourists chose Morocco for his or her holidays in 2008, an increase of 6.4% with regard to 2007. However it seems that tourists chose to shorten their stay, because the degree of overnight stays in listed hotels establishments has fallen by 3%. Marrakech is definitely the favourite destination of tourists in Morocco.

From an overall total accommodation total capacity of 152.936 beds throughout Morocco, 44.394 seem to be in Marrakech, which represents almost 30%. The ONMT (Office National Marocain du Tourisme), the primary tourist Moroccan administration, has declared that Morocco has the potentiality to manage as much as the results of the global financial crisis. One of its main assets is the proximity of Morocco towards the main issuing countries, which facilitates the traffic of travelers with smaller budgets. Thus, the diversification from the products and of an investment continues to be accelerated, a situation that's been profited by low-cost airlines and travel agencies.

Among the examples of the diversification completed by the Moroccan tourist industry is its will to are designed for different visiting nationalities. Apart from MLAs, which make up nearly half from the tourists that visit Morocco, the has traditionally focused on receiving guests from France (1.707.055 French tourists in 2008 and 22% of total visitors) and Spain (595.279 Spanish tourists in 2008, 8% of the total). However in recent years, progressively more tourists in the United kingdom and Belgium have decided to visit the Maghribian country. Also, the number of tourists from countries outside the EU has almost doubled at that time from 2001 to 2008. The fact that Morocco is putting an enormous effort about this geographical diversity which it's comfortable with its important is reflected by its try to attract fleeing nationalities. This external link was removed for your protection

For instance, the number of German travelers has fallen by almost 10% from 2001 to 2008. In order to modify this tendency, new intends to attract German visitors to the country happen to be set in motion, like the recent opening of a spa resort in Taghazoute and also the similar projects of spa resorts in Saidia (June 2009) and Mazagan (October 2009), that have been strategically conceived to reply to the requirements of the German market. So, the diversification from the tourist industry as well as the help suggested, together with a growing excellence of the training of tourist agents, an augmentation from the investment in marketing and promotion, along with a new emphasis on the cooperation of private and public economic operators is allowing Morocco to ride out the threats from the global economic situation while increasing the quality of its tourism, the diversity of its services and the well-being of its visitors.

If you decide to have a taste of the quality and number of the Moroccan tourist industry, we advise you to visit the country and enjoy it top notch. You can get a good idea from the excellence, service and range of accommodation hotels Morocco has to offer simply by surfing the web. Also, in order to make the very best of your trip in Morocco I recommend you to make contact with the local travel agent to find out about the numerous various different vacations and leisure activities that you could get in this excellent and diverse country.