Travel receipts stood at more than 8.24 billion dirhams (MMDH) at the end of January 2023, against only 1.13 billion dirhams in the same period of 2022, indicates the Foreign Exchange Office.
These revenues thus exceed their level reached at the end of January 2020 (6.74 billion dirhams), the period before the closure of the borders linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, specifies the Office which has just published its monthly indicators of foreign trade.
Expenditure stood at 1.55 billion dirhams, the Office said, noting that this level remains lower than those recorded at the end of January 2019 (1.58 billion dirhams) and at the end of January 2020 (1.83 MMDH), periods before the Covid-19 crisis. Thus, the excess balance of travel stood at nearly 6.7 billion dirhams at the end of January, against only 378 million dirhams a year earlier.