APA-Rabat (Morocco) More than 100 million viewers can now be informed about the weather of the Moroccan tourist resort town of Agadir in the south-west, with 50 channels providing this service as of Friday.

The weather imagery of the Atlantic city, a major Moroccan tourist destination, was launched in partnership with 50 Arab and European audiovisual media, the second experiment of this kind in Africa after that of South Africa.

The service will be provided by a camera fixed by a team of the German channel Earthtv.com on the roof of a hotel, the Moroccan media disclosed.

Tourism investments in Morocco during the next five years will amount to nearly 80 billion dirhams, i.e. 10 billion dollars.

Morocco had beaten its own record in 2008 by welcoming nearly 8 million tourists, representing a 7 percent growth compared to 2007, which earned the country about 58 billion dirhams.