{"id":199103,"date":"2018-08-10T20:32:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T22:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=199103"},"modified":"2018-08-13T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:26:46","slug":"morocco-welcomed-5-1-million-tourists-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/morocco-welcomed-5-1-million-tourists-h1\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco welcomed 5.1 million tourists in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabat \u2013 A total of 5.1 million tourists visited Morocco in H1, a 10% rise over the same period of last year, according to the country\u2019s Tourism Observatory. The information was published by Moroccan news agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapexpress.ma\/actualite\/economie-et-finance\/hausse-de-10-des-arrivees-touristiques-au-maroc-a-fin-juin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign tourist numbers to Morocco were up 17%, and the number of Moroccan citizens traveling abroad was up 1%. Numbers increased from the leading sources of tourists to Morocco, including Italy (18%), Germany (13%), France (10%), Holland (8%), the United Kingdom (7%) and Spain (6%).<\/p>\n<p>Hotel stays climbed 10% year-on-year in H1. Occupancy averaged at 44%, and the strongest results were seen in Marrakech (56%), Agadir and Taghazout (55%), and Casablanca (56%).<\/p>\n<p>Revenue from non-resident tourism reached MAD 31.2 billion (USD 3.3 billion), up 15.2% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph features tourists in the Roman ruins of Volubilis, in the Mekn\u00e8s area of Morocco.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani &amp; Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-199101\">Fadel Senna\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of visitors climbed 10% in comparison to the same period of last year. The sector generated USD 3.3 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":199101,"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":[3400,2129,4369,41414,416,433,2247,4370],"class_list":{"0":"post-199103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-agadir","9":"tag-marrakech","10":"tag-meknes","11":"tag-meknes-en-2","12":"tag-morocco","13":"tag-tourism","14":"tag-tourists","15":"tag-volubilis"},"wps_subtitle":"The number of visitors climbed 10% in comparison to the same period of last year. The sector generated USD 3.3 billion. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199103","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=199103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}