Rabat - Around 5 million tourists visited Morocco over January-July 2009, an increase of 8% compared with the same period of last year, the tourism department reported.The French tourists topped the list with 1.94 million (+8%), followed by the Spaniards (1.11 million, + 14 %), the Belgians (291,000, +16 %), the Dutch (273,000, +14 %), the Germans (259,000, +4 %), the Britons (209,000, -10 %) and the Italians (186,000, +10 %). The arrivals of Scandinavian tourists showed a stagnation.The rise had no impact on the number of overnight stays which slipped by 2%, reaching some 9.5 million against 9.66 million a year earlier.The drop in overnight stays is due to the decrease posted by the French market (-5%) and the British (-18%), which represent 81% of the drop. As for the Spanish and Arab markets, they showed a rise of 3% and 4% respectively//en.yabiladi.com/topics/some-million-tourists-visited-morocco-44-3328904-3328904.html#msg-3328904 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:43:30 +0200 Phorum 5.2.15