The Moroccan Ministry of Tourism has set up Monday a crisis unit to "monitor and supervise the repatriation of thousands of customers" British tour operator Thomas Cook, bankrupt.
The Moroccan authorities have not specified the number of tourists concerned nor the operating mode of this unit responsible for "getting as much information as possible". Morocco received in 2018 some 683,000 British tourists, totaling 2.14 million overnight stays, according to figures from the Moroccan Observatory of Tourism, which does not specify which fraction travels with Thomas Cook.
In the first half of 2019, British tourist arrivals recorded an increase of 18%, ahead of France, Spain, Belgium or Italy, according to the same source The two tourist poles of the country, Marrakech and Agadir, which total more than half of the overnight stays in the country, should be the most affected by the bankruptcy of the British tour operator, according to the local press.