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Tourism is an important economic sector for many countries in Africa. There are many countries that benefit heavily from tourism like Kenya, Uganda, Algeria, Egypt, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana and Tanzania. [1] The touristic particularity of Africa lies in the wide variety of points of interest, diversity and multitudes of landscapes ...
The World Tourism rankings are compiled by the United Nations World Tourism Organization as part of their World Tourism Barometer publication, which is released up to six times per year. In the publication, destinations are ranked by the number of international visitor arrivals, by the revenue generated by inbound tourism, and by the ...
In Africa, there are 91 cultural, 50 natural, and 6 mixed sites. [1] Several efforts have been devoted to increasing the number of sites and preserving the heritage of existing sites on the continent; for example, on 5 May 2006, the African World Heritage Fund was launched by UNESCO to target the region of Sub-Saharan Africa. It planned to ...
In 2017, there were 10.3 million tourist arrivals, compared with about 10.1 million in 2016, a 1.5% year-over-year increase. 30% of the tourists were one of the 3.8 million Moroccans living abroad. Marrakech itself had over 2 million visitors in 2017. [ 4 ] In 2019, more than 13 million tourists visited Morocco.
Tourist attractions in Cape Verde (10 C) Tourist attractions in the Central African Republic (9 C) Tourist attractions in Chad (9 C) Tourist attractions in the Comoros (3 C) Tourist attractions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (10 C, 5 P) Tourist attractions in the Republic of the Congo (7 C)
In 2016, 1,284,279 tourists arrived at Tanzania's borders compared to 590,000 in 2005. [6] In 2019, the Tanzanian tourism sector generated US$2.6 billion in revenues with 1.5 million tourist arrivals [7]. In 2020, due to Covid-19, travel receipts declined to US$1.06 billion and the number of international tourist arrivals declined to 616,491.
Morocco, [d] officially the Kingdom of Morocco, [e] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south.
Lists of tourist attractions in Africa (42 C, 11 P) A. Amusement parks in Africa (2 C) Aquaria in Africa (3 C) B. Beaches of Africa (1 C) H.