The impact of the health crisis linked to the coronavirus on Moroccan tourism continues. Some studies show that Morocco could lose up to 10 million tourists this year.
An unprecedented loss for Moroccan tourism. The summer season is far from being profitable for tourism professionals whose sector is hard hit by the health crisis. The cause? ? The remarkable absence of internal tourists in hotels, especially in the seaside segment, in this month of July, explains the newspaper Les Inspirations Éco. Difficult resumption of tourist activity in this context marked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the state of health emergency.
Zoubir Bouhout, director of the Provincial Tourism Council, believes that the probability is high that the achievements of this atypical 2020 season will bring the sector back to the early 1980s. Moreover, a statistical study focused on monitoring the repercussions of this health crisis on national tourism shows that the number of arrivals could exceed 2.37 million tourists, which represents a huge loss of more than 10.5 million tourists compared to the 2019 season. This is essentially due to the 5.5 million foreign tourists staying (TES) and the 4.9 million fewer MREs, it is specified.
For Najia Ounassar, president of the Agadir Hotel Industry Association (AIHA), the sector lacks visibility on its future. “Apart from a few hotels, the majority of establishments remained empty during the month of July and professionals will sail on sight during the month of August? “, she says.
source: bladi.net
