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In times of crisis, the tourists prefer to stay with their pennies.

The British were the first to follow very closely the fluctuation of the indices of the stock to jump to the Morocco.

During the first ten months of this year, the nights in the accommodation establishments classified by nationality fell by 21% from the United Kingdom of 13% from the Belgium of 8% of France and 7% of Italy. Only tourists from Arab countries have continued to spend the nights in the Kingdom rose by 18% over the first ten months of fiscal year 2007.

With the Dutch (+ 33%) and Spanish (+ 8%), nights recorded by non-residents total declined by 5%. And residents that saved the last marking an increase of 7%.

Therefore, the nights from January to October 2008 have decreased by 2%, according to the latest statistics of the Observatory of tourism.

"The average occupancy of rooms in late October 2008 has experienced a drop of four percentage points from late October 2007." "However, the main tourist destinations continue to show satisfactory rates (59% for Agadir, 58% for Marrakech, 55% to Tangier and 52% for Casablanca)", according to the Observatory of tourism.

On the eve of the announcement of these statistics, Mohamed Boussaid, Minister of tourism and crafts, said that the Moroccan market "has all the assets to quickly rebound and overcome this crisis."

"Destinations near and medium mail from the European market, which represents most of the clientele of the Moroccan tourism sector, will be relatively spared and even an advantage in times of crisis", he added in the work of a panel of the Mediterranean forum in Tangier on the impact of the crisis on the Morocco.

Moreover, less nights means also less revenue. During the first ten months of this year, travel receipts have regressed from 1.5% to 49 billion dirhams.

On the other hand, the evolution of the arrivals of tourists by country of residence shows an increase of 6% from essentially by the MRE. The arrivals were mainly recorded by Spain (+ 13%), Holland (+ 7%), Belgium (+ 6%) and France (+ 5%).

It should be noted also that the influx of tourists from the United Kingdom are folded 18%.