As Algeria opens its doors to more visitors, its tourism sector is rapidly expanding to host them
Algeria’s government wants to see five times more annual visitors to the country by 2030. We take a look at how the tourism sector is being developed to attract and host them all.
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00:00Algeria Tumoro
00:12Hello and welcome to Algeria Tumoro, with its picturesque Mediterranean cities,
00:17its mountains of Djordjura and the ancient Atlas,
00:20its prehistoric art of its vast Saharan desert.
00:23Algeria is full of breathtaking landscapes.
00:262.5 million tourists have enjoyed it in the last 12 months,
00:30but the country wants to do better.
00:32It wants to multiply this figure by 5 by 2030.
00:35How?
00:36This is what I propose you to discover with us.
00:41Attracting more tourists requires a new strategy.
00:44It is based on 5 dynamics.
00:46Investment, improvement of services, promotion,
00:49development of communication infrastructures
00:52and the establishment of a solid legal framework
00:55for the management of the sector.
00:57A strategy that is also synonymous with currency.
01:00The only year of 2023 saw more than 1.4 billion euros enter the country.
01:05We have actually put in place a whole strategy
01:08that goes in the direction of development,
01:10in particular of tourist investment
01:13through a certain number of laws,
01:15a certain number of support
01:17to allow tourist investment to meet the demand
01:21both nationally and internationally.
01:27More than 3 million tourists have flown in the last 12 months,
01:30of which more than 2 million were foreigners
01:33and 1.1 million came from the national community abroad.
01:37The country has not experienced such a boom in 20 years.
01:41To boost the hospitality offer and surf on these good results,
01:45the Investment Law offers an advantageous framework
01:49249 areas of tourist expansion
01:52are made available in different regions of the country.
01:56More than 8,400 projects have already been registered.
01:59Projects that should generate 210,000 direct jobs.
02:03And digitization is in place.
02:05It facilitates and clarifies the steps.
02:08We want to create what is called the unique digital framework
02:12through digitization,
02:14in which the operator can accomplish
02:16all the processes related to investment,
02:18starting with information
02:20on investment opportunities,
02:23on investment procedures,
02:26up to registration and obtaining authorizations.
02:32It is the improvement of the investment climate
02:35for more transparency and equal treatment.
02:38We know that in tourism,
02:40the funder is a driver of investment dynamics
02:42and Algeria is experiencing a real revolution in this area.
02:45The new laws are weighing a certain weight
02:48in terms of preparation.
02:50Procedures that will eventually lead to 90,000 additional beds.
02:54And this is just the beginning.
02:56The goal is 300,000 additional beds by 2030.
03:00Tourist areas were created in 1988.
03:04So far, we have not concretely developed any areas.
03:07It is an opportunity to start this sector
03:10and make it available to all foreign national investors
03:14in order to reach a large French port.
03:17We have a coastline that is really well served,
03:20but we are currently working a lot more on the plateau,
03:24so mountain tourism, thermal tourism,
03:27because Algeria has 248 thermal sources
03:30that are not really exploited.
03:32According to the data of the World Tourism Organization,
03:35Algeria is recording the third largest
03:38African tourist progression in the space of five years.
03:41This data illustrates the ambition of the country.
03:44By 2030, it is not less than 12 million people
03:47that Algeria intends to make discover its treasures.
03:51In our strategy, which is the director scheme
03:54of tourism management Horizon 2030,
03:56we set ourselves as a goal
03:58that the tourism sector would be an economic sector
04:01for which Algeria must count.
04:03And that's why we put all this strategy
04:06to make tourism a product
04:09that contributes to the raw national product
04:12of the Algerian economy.
04:14And we, the notion of tourism,
04:16it is quite different from the global notion
04:18as we define it,
04:20because we, in the first place,
04:22tourism is first of all a guest.
04:29What makes the Algerian destination attractive
04:32for many foreign investors,
04:34especially since the loyal, targeted and national clientele
04:37but also in the Mediterranean outskirts,
04:40that is, France, Italy, Spain,
04:43and why not, in the long run,
04:45address the Chinese and Russian markets.
04:48And it is in this magnificent setting
04:50that this chapter on tourism closes.
04:53See you soon in a new edition of Algeria Tomorrow.