Morocco shut its borders in late November and will only reopen them at the end of January. It has also banned new year celebrations and is enforcing its vaccine pass requirements more strictly in response to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Tourism generated $8bn , or 7% of Morocco's economy, in 2019, but the Central Bank expects it to have made only $3.6bn this year. “We fear that by the time borders reopen we will find it hard to sell Morocco due to the sudden border closures,” said Emmanuelle Barat, a tour operator.“I have received no customers for the past 10 days,” said Taher Onsi, a restaurant owner in Marrakesh, adding that domestic tourism could not offset the fall in foreign visitors.
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