{"id":56852,"date":"2017-04-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/moroccos-tourism-sector-is-on-the-rise\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:26:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:26:30","slug":"moroccos-tourism-sector-is-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/moroccos-tourism-sector-is-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco\u2019s tourism sector is on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The tourism sector in Morocco experienced significant growth at the beginning of this year. According to information published this Tuesday (4) by news outlet <em>Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP)<\/em>, the number of visitors that entered the country in February went up 10.6%, with overnight stays in hotels increasing 18.8%. The data is from the Moroccan Ministry of Tourism.<\/p>\n<p><!--[{![cemb_9_713246_1]!}]--><\/p>\n<p>Hotel occupancy rates rose by five percentage points, reported the ministry. According to <em>MAP<\/em>, tourism has been registering positive results since November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The number of tourists rose from both the markets considered to be traditional to Morocco and those rated as emerging markets. Visitor numbers increased by 6% from France, 22% from Spain, 19% from Germany, and 7% from the United Kingdom. <\/p>\n<p>Among &ldquo;emerging&rdquo; markets, there was an increase of 923% in the number of visitors from China, 82% from Russia, 62% from Japan, 32% from the United States, 20% from Canada and 17% from Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In January and February, overnight stays in hotels climbed 14.8%, with the occupancy rate at 4%. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the main tourist destinations in the country registered an increase in the number of visitors in the year&rsquo;s first two months: Marrakech (17%), Agadir (19%), Fez (37%), Tangier (25%) and Casablanca (8%). <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by S&eacute;rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-189757\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country had an increase of 10.6% in the number of visitors and of 18.8% in hotel overnight stays in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":189757,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism"},"wps_subtitle":"The country had an increase of 10.6% in the number of visitors and of 18.8% in hotel overnight stays in February.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56852","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=56852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}