{"id":196282,"date":"2018-06-22T18:25:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T21:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=196282"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:25:43","slug":"morocco-tourist-numbers-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/morocco-tourist-numbers-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco tourist numbers up 12%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabat \u2013 Morocco welcomed 3.4 million foreign tourists from January to April 2018, up 12% from a year ago, Moroccan news outlet <em>MAP<\/em> quoted National Tourism Observatory as reporting this week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_196279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196279\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-196279\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/agadirafp-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/agadirafp-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/agadirafp-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/agadirafp-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/agadirafp.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Souk El Had, a market in Agadir, Morocco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>MAP<\/em> said tourist numbers climbed 19%, while the number of Moroccan expatriates visiting their home country was up 1%. Out of the leading issuer countries, numbers increased the most from Italy (18%), Germany (14%), France (11%), the UK and the Netherlands (10% each).<\/p>\n<p>Nights spent in hotels was up 10% in the first four months of this year, with tourist hubs Marrakech (pictured above) and Agadir accounting for 61% of total stays.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue from non-resident tourists reached MAD 21.1 billion (USD 2.2 billion), up 18% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>In April alone, tourist inflows to Morocco saw a 4% year-on-year increase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-196277\">Manuel Cohen\/AFP<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-196279\">Gon\u00e7alo Silva\/NurPhoto<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country welcomed 3.4 million visitors from January to April, with revenue going up 18% to USD 2.2 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":196277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[3400,3401,416,433,30322],"class_list":{"0":"post-196282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-agadir","9":"tag-map","10":"tag-morocco","11":"tag-tourism","12":"tag-turistas-en"},"wps_subtitle":"The country welcomed 3.4 million visitors from January to April, with revenue going up 18% to USD 2.2 billion. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}