{"id":186674,"date":"2024-12-16T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-morocco-set-to-overtake-egypt-as-africas-most-visited-country\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:00:05","slug":"africa-morocco-set-to-overtake-egypt-as-africas-most-visited-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-morocco-set-to-overtake-egypt-as-africas-most-visited-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Morocco Set to Overtake Egypt As Africa&#8217;s Most Visited Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em> Morocco is on track to set new tourism records in 2024, with the country poised to become Africa&#8217;s most visited destination, surpassing Egypt. French nationals remain the largest group of foreign tourists, followed by British visitors. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">By November 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/morocco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morocco<\/a> had already welcomed nearly 16 million tourists, marking a 20 percent increase compared to the same period in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">With these numbers continuing to climb, Moroccan authorities are optimistic about reaching a new milestone next year,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412160028.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco is on track to set new tourism records in 2024, with the country poised to become Africa&#8217;s most visited destination, surpassing Egypt. French nationals remain the largest group of foreign tourists, followed by British visitors. By November 2024, Morocco had already welcomed nearly 16 million tourists, marking a 20 percent increase compared to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":186675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6287,5042,4697,415,5609,257,23436,7106,254,8565],"class_list":["post-186674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-country","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-overtake","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visited"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}