Tourism in Morocco continues to climb towards pre-pandemic levels. The accelerated pace of the recovery even portends an surpassing of 2019 performances for the summer period.

Thus, the sector maintains its sustained pace across all aggregators, including the number of tourist arrivals. The month of June, in fact, recorded more than 1,140,000 tourist arrivals. A performance exceeding that of June 2019, having seen the arrival of 1,092,000, an increase of 5%. This growth is further accentuated compared to the same period of 2021 to reach 235%.

Moroccans Living Abroad made a significant contribution to this growth, with the arrival of 620,000 MRE in June, an increase of 27% compared to June 2019. These arrivals will peak during July and August 2022.

Several factors will contribute to the acceleration of this recovery, including the strengthening of air capacity which exceeds that of 2019, the various partnerships signed with tour operators to secure a significant number of arrivals and the various measures undertaken in favor of the attractiveness of the destination, such as the launch of the electronic visa from July 10, the impacts of which will be felt on medium-term arrivals to the Kingdom.

source: ecoactu.ma