Over 5 million tourists visited Morocco up to October

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Rabat, Dec. 20 - Tourist arrivals in Morocco in the first ten months of 2005 have totalled some 5,052,833, i.e. a 5% increase in comparison with the same period of 2004, according to the Tourism Ministry figures.

The statistics include 2,573,552 foreigners while Moroccan expatriates compose the rest of the arrivals.

French tourists rank first with 1,157,960 arrivals and a 16% rise in comparison to last year said the figures. The other nationalities include Spain (292,084), Great Britain (157,612), Germany (120,467, the only nationality to register a decrease - 2%), Belgium (108,239, i.e. 19% increase) and Italy (100,422).

Morocco has set up a tourism strategy that eyes attracting some 10 million tourists by the year 2010.

Thats funny how the spaniards hate the moroccans yet they outstrip the rest of the other countries ...

[aswad]

I will be a new tourist of Morocco