Morocco biography

Tourism in Morocco is well developed, maintaining a strong tourist industry focused on the country's coast, culture, and history. The Moroccan government created a Ministry of Tourism in 1985.^[1] Tourism is considered one of the main foreign exchange sources in Morocco and since 2013 it had the highest number of arrivals out of the countries in Africa.^[2] In 2024, according to the Ministry of Tourism, a record annual total of 17.4 million tourists visited Morocco, up 20% compared to 2023.^[3]

History of tourism

In the second half of the 1980s and the early 1990s, between 1 and 1.5 million Europeans visited Morocco.

Most of these visitors were French or Spanish, with about 100,000 each from Britain, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Morocco biography

Tourists mostly visited large beach resorts along the Atlantic coast, particularly Agadir. About 20,000 people from Saudi Arabia visited, some of whom bought holiday homes. Receipts from tour