Agadir’s Tourism Boost: 10,000-Bed Hotel Renovation Plan Unveiled

It is a major mission that the Souss-Massa Tourist Development Company has set itself, notes the MAP. Its general manager provided further explanations during an information seminar on the mechanism for granting the subsidy dedicated to the renovation of hotel establishments in the city, which mobilized several actors in the sector. Abdelkrim Azenfar notably specified that the SDR is focusing its action on the renovation of hotel infrastructures and the promotion of rural and cultural tourism, as well as tourist animation.

"The Renovation Program aims to diversify and thematize the tourist offer, support international trends, upgrade the tourist product, and improve the competitiveness of the sector," Abdelkrim Azenfar clarified during the same seminar, which also saw the participation of the Agadir Hotel Industry Association (AIHA) as a partner.

As part of this program, Azenfar specified that a total of 4,985 of these beds belong to hotels without arrears, 316 beds with arrears, 1,691 beds belong to hotels in receivership, 745 beds from hotels in liquidation, 958 beds come from closed hotels, while 1,388 beds are provided by state-owned hotel establishments.

As for the subsidies that will be used to renovate these hotels, they come from the Ministry of Tourism, Crafts, Air Transport and Social Economy, the Region, as well as the municipality of Agadir, according to the general manager of the SDR.