Beach Tourists Prefer Algeria and Lebanon

Tourists preferring beach vacation to any others and looking for diversity, pay their attention to the new travel directions - Lebanon and Algeria that shall soon become very competitive as compared with other African resort countries - Egypt, Tunis and Morocco. Morocco is a special item in this list, since in 2007 the tourist flow to this country broke all records (+8%, the total number of tourists made up 7 million people) which is caused by effective domestic policy and appearance of the new routes of low-budget airlines (easyJet, AirBerlin, Ryanair) from Europe to Marrakesh, Agadir and Fez.

"Euromonitor International" predicts the boom of beach tourism in Lebanon and Algeria in the next five years. Unusual and beautiful nature, cultural and historical sights, historic mysteries and various exotics shall attract a big number of European tourists. The specialists recommend both countries to borrow Tunisian or Egyptian models of tourism development in which sea, sun and beach are combined with the high level of service, unique thalassotherapy and antique sights.

The tourism in Lebanon and Algeria is now restrained by visa issues and lack of qualitative hotels. However, before 2015 "Accor Group" plans to open 36 hotels in Algeria, and "Marriott International" and "Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide" are already constructing new beach resorts. The company "Maltese Corinthia Group" owns so far the only 5-star hotel in Tripoli, whereas the Italian company "Gruppo Norman" is building the resort for 3.8 thousand guests on the Farwa island. Investment companies from the United Arab Emirates are also showing interest in the region.

Iuri Tarabanov writes about interesting travel experiences. His Travel site is http://www.travelime.com