{"id":171848,"date":"2025-03-10T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/?p=171848"},"modified":"2025-03-10T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:27:36","slug":"un-tourism-touts-morocco-as-alluring-prospect-for-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/?p=171848&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"UN Tourism Touts Morocco as Alluring Prospect for Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-tpl-ville-accroche\">Madrid &#8211; UN Tourism Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili highlighted Morocco as a prime destination for investors in the tourism sector.<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-wrapper-img-corps\">\n<div class=\"node-tpl-image-legende\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mapnews.ma\/en\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/corps_article_image\/public\/marrakech_jpg.jpg.jpg?resize=450%2C266&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"266\" title=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-tpl-corps\">\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Positioned as an alluring prospect for investors, Morocco boasts a strategic location, modern infrastructure, and a government deeply committed to fostering foreign direct investment (FDI),\u00a0\u00bb Pololikashvili said in a report published on Saturday by the UN organization based in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>In the report titled \u00ab\u00a0Investing in Morocco,\u00a0\u00bb UN Tourism notes that Morocco has averaged USD 3.5 billion in FDI annually across all sectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0From 2014 to 2023, USD 2.2 billion was allocated to the tourism sector. Greenfield investments in tourism amounted to USD 2.6 billion between 2015 and 2024.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>UN Tourism notes that in 2024, Morocco welcomed 17.4 million tourists, a 35% increase compared to 2019, which allowed the sector to nearly double its contribution to GDP, rising from 3.7% in 2020 to 7.3% in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>With a decade of 2.5% growth, Morocco has emerged as the fifth-largest country in Africa by GDP. This report emphasizes the role of tourism in Morocco&rsquo;s economic performance, grounding it in resilient fiscal and monetary policies, a stable political and socio-economic environment, and deliberate efforts to boost the sector.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid &#8211; UN Tourism Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili highlighted Morocco as a prime destination for investors in the tourism sector. \u00ab\u00a0Positioned as an alluring prospect for investors, Morocco boasts a strategic location, modern infrastructure, and a government deeply committed to fostering foreign direct investment (FDI),\u00a0\u00bb Pololikashvili said in a report published on Saturday by the UN &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":162672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowteS_DA:productID":"","footnotes":"","iawp_total_views":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[108],"tags":[35787],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":171848},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/agadirtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/agadirtoday.com-2024-10-27_09-50-23_812331.jpg?fit=504%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peJLke-IHK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171849,"href":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171848\/revisions\/171849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agadirtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}