Valuing the Economic Costs of Beach Erosion Related to the Loss in the Tourism Industry: The Case of Tetouan Coast (Morocco)

Impacts and social implications of landuse-environment conflicts in a typical Mediterranean watershed

“…Besides, the exceptional international attractiveness of this coastal area (considered the preferred summer tourist destination in Morocco) leads to an excessive increase in the number of arrivals during the main months of the summer season (i.e. July and August), which can at least triple the number of ordinary residents (Aderghal, 2016;Flayou et al, 2017;HCP, 2008;Tekken and Kropp, 2015). The result is an extreme shrinking of available space, personal comfort, and excessive momentary pressure on available natural resources.…”

Blue Skies, Blue Seas: Air Pollution, Marine Plastics, and Coastal Erosion in the Middle East and North Africa

“…For a similar region in Morocco-the Tetouan coast with its main tourist beaches-total eroded surface in the period 1958-2018 amounted to approximately 490 hectares (Benkhattab et al 2020). Drawing on these numbers and projections about future beach retreat, lost revenues to the economy due to the retreat of these beaches alone could total US$190 billion in the next few decades (Flayou et al 2017). 10…”