One Million And A Half Million Foreign Tourists entered the capital of Algeria in 2016

The Algerian capital Algiers received during the year 2016, more than one million and a half million visitors, who were recorded at their entry into the national territory through the International Airport of Houari Boumediene of Algiers, according to the latest statistics worked out by tourism officials.

The latter indicated that most of these visitors, representing businessmen and investors, were on the rise throughout that period with on focus the hiked number of incoming Africans and Chinese compared to the traditional visitors from Europe and Turkey, in view of the improved investment and business climate in Algeria against a backdrop of the re-establishment of security in the four corners of the country.

Despite the slow pace in the development of its tourism industry, Algeria still benefits from its multifarious cultural variety with on prime focus its enthralling Sahara and remains in the Top 5 of the continental tourism classification, according to the UNWTO documentation. 

The Algerian authorities have of late decided to deal seriously with the tourism sector by embarking upon the building through partnership projects of brand-new tourism-related infrastructures notably hotels, resorts, holiday Ins and other leisure premises across the country in order to shore up and modernize national and foreign tourism by notably upgrading for the latter the “Algeria destination” overseas.

While the north of Algeria allows tourists to hark back to the millenary history of the country through its museums, its enticing landscapes and its ancient ruins, the gorgeous South offers them the endless golden dunes and the breath-taking mountainous massifs of the immense Sahara.

As a matter of fact, the overall number of foreign tourists who visited Algeria increased in 2013, after reaching 2.6 million in 2012, 2.3 million in 2011 and 2.07 million in 2010.