Algeria has decided to develop its tourism, in order to try to compete with Morocco and Tunisia, which have a head start. While Morocco, a tourist country, welcomed 14.5 million visitors in 2023, Algeria, larger and richer, welcomed only 3.3 million foreign tourists, according to the Algerian Ministry of Tourism. According to tourism professionals in Morocco, tourism and travel generate 700,000 direct jobs in the kingdom, and many more indirect jobs, far from the 500 jobs created in Algeria in 2021, according to the Statista website. . Its tourist office aims to attract 12 million tourists by 2030, a fourfold increase, reports Daily Mail. “To achieve this, we, as a tourism sector and traditional industry, seek to encourage investments, provide facilities for investors, build tourism and hotel facilities,” said Saliha Nacerbay, director general of the National Tourism Office, at the International Tourism and Travel Fair, organized in Algiers from May 30 to June 2. Read: Algeria wants to appropriate Moroccan selham Algeria plans to build hotels and restructure and modernize existing ones. Around 2,000 tourism projects have been approved so far, of which 800 are currently under construction, reports the Moroccan Ministry of Tourism. It is also renovating its historic sites, with 249 sites intended for tourism development. Approximately 70 sites have been prepared and restoration plans are underway for an additional 50 sites.
