Morocco Tourism

Morocco Tourism
Some 7.5 million foreign visitors annually visit Morocco (2007 figure). This figure includes the Moroccans in the diaspora visiting family during the holidays, but the number of tourists experiencing very strong growth (+13% compared to 2006). Tourism is the leading foreign exchange earner, ahead of financial transfers from Moroccans abroad and sales of phosphates.

Tourism in all seasons: the main asset of southern Morocco is to attract tourists in winter as in summer. Egypt, the other major medium-haul destination of winter tourism is very hot in summer, when the ocean moderates the climate of strong Moroccan coast. Another paradox of Morocco is to offer the opportunity to ski in the morning and swim in the hotel pool in the afternoon in the shade of palm trees. The ski slope of the Atlas is only two hour’s drive from Marrakech. Marrakech has become in a few years the real capital of Moroccan tourism point of eclipsing Agadir notoriety. Real estate tourism is booming. 

The symposium industry grew quickly. The vast imperial metropolis has become the symbol of easy expatriation cheap for some luxurious for those who come just to spend the weekend, as once we went to Venice. The city has become a rendezvous for the jet-set as a very popular destination. Read: Djemaa el Fna square in Marrakech's famous A totally Francophone population (in tourist areas) and particularly warm, roads good qualities, hotels, and large quantities of all types. Few political risks and limited crime ... is the main asset of Morocco. 

A recommended trip for individual countries, although few tourists there are still likely, especially in the north, abandoned by foreigners. A rich legacy architecture various dynasties that have made ​​the history of Morocco is one of the attractions of the country. But it can also be a source of frustration for the tourists who are mostly just pictures of their guide for the architectural treasures of the country. Most famous monuments are religious (mosques, madrasas, mausoleums ...) access is forbidden to non-Muslims since a decree dating from the time of ... Lyautey. The Muslim architecture is not externalized and west, all wealth is usually hidden from view from the street. We advice tourists keen on Islamic architecture instead go visit the Great Mosque of Damascus or Istanbul's Blue Mosque of trying to see, the hidden, inside the famous Karaouiyine Fez. As madrasas were restored, they are one after the other, closed to visitors ... That said, Greece without its monuments remain exciting to travel the country as Morocco and perhaps even more, because the extraordinary life remaining in its medinas and craftsmanship that is produced there.

Sport and adventure Sahara, especially from Ouarzazzate beginning to compete for its offer in Marrakech two-hour drive, Zagora is becoming the starting point for camel ... A full tourism growth (which takes advantage of the quasi closure of Algeria to tourists for 10 years). "Paradise" of the golfer is another picture (a bit outdated) of Morocco had sought to promote the former King Hassan II. A luxury, certainly excessive for Morocco regularly afflicted by drought.

 The Morocco off the beaten path: Tangier, all nostalgic, the Mediterranean coast to mingle with Moroccan tourists, mountains of the Rif (the country kif, local variant of hashish) and her jewels like the small town of Chefchaouen, so Mykonos mountains (and before tourism) ...