800k Spanish tourists expected in Morocco by 2010

Some 800,000 Spanish tourists are expected in Morocco by 2010, i.e. twice the figures reported in 2006, said, here Wednesday, Managing Director of the Moroccan Tourism Office, Abbas Azzouzi.

Tourist arrivals from Spain flared up 17% in 2006, Azzouzi told MAP on the fringes of the 7th Euro-Mediterranean Forum, underlining that the new low cost airlines will consolidate the neighborhood advantage between the two countries.

To accompany this increasing demand, said Azzouzi, Morocco will consolidate the traditional destinations, promote new tourism formulas and improve Morocco's image in Spain.

Morocco's efforts are part of an ambitious strategy dubbed "Vision 2010" to attract some ten million tourists by the end of the decade.