Milan Lalić
Gordana Jovanović
UPOREDNI PREGLED TURISTIČKIH POKAZATELJA U TUNISU I MAROKU U PERIODU 1990-2010. GODINE
DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2016.4.640
UDC: 911.3:338.48-1/-6(611+64)"1990/2010"
Abstract: Tourism today is one of the fastest growing industries and an important economic activity for many developing countries as well as several developed countries. The Mediterranean region, the first worldwide tourism region, represents 25.8% of global tourism receipts and 31.5% of international arrivals in 2010. From 1990 to 2010 in the Southern Mediterranean countries recorded growth rates the greatest in world tourism. As a part of this area, the Maghreb countries (especially Morocco and Tunisia) constitute a non-negligible tourist destination. Thus, tourism is considered one of the vital sectors in both countries. In the period 1990-2010 the share of tourism in GDP increased from 5.4 to 9.3% in Tunisia and 3.7 to 10.1% in Morocco. In the same period, tourism directly employs increased from 4.7 to 8.5% of total employment in Tunisia, and 3.6 to 9.3% in Morocco. Morocco is the first country that Atlas was developed tourist industry, while Tunis, compared to Morocco rather late involved in the development of the tourism industry. Morocco is less than three times larger than its Tunisian and it has about three-times more people. GDP per capita in Tunisia, about 1.46 times higher than Morocco. In the first decade of the third millennium Tunis a year is visited by an average of 6.8 million foreign tourists who realized around 33 million nights and brought revenue of US$ 2.4 billion US dollars. Morocco in the same period visited by an average of 6.5 million visitors, who made an average of about 16 million overnight stays, while the revenue earned an average of US$ 5.7 billion. So, although the approximate number of categorized units and beds, with about the same number of tourists total tourism receipts in Morocco is 2.4 times higher. The subject of this paper is a comparative view of tourism indicators and research competitiveness of the tourism sector in Tunisia and Morocco. We used the statistical data of the National Tourism Organizations, the National Institutes of Statistics of the two countries, as well as the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and the World Economic Forum.
Key words: tourism, Tunisia, Morocco, tourism indicators, competitiveness index