At the insistent request of tourism professionals, the government is easing the conditions of access for tourists to Morocco. In addition to the removal of the serological test, the required time for the PCR test will be extended to 72 hours, instead of 48 hours currently.
The Mamounia palace, which has been undergoing renovations for a few months, hopes to reopen its doors from October 16th. All that tourism operators are waiting for is the lifting of the state of emergency and real air programming.
Several Moroccan hotels have just received the Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice 2020 award. Let’s take a look at the list in detail.
Since September 4, as part of the "Clean Hands" operation, the judicial police are facing behaviors that could harm public health in the Kingdom. The facts could be reclassified as criminal.
Following the closure of several venues and the withdrawal of alcohol licenses, professionals in the field, through the Alliance of Free Trade Unions, organized a sit-in this Friday, September 25, starting at 10 a.m., in front of the Wilaya of the Casablanca-Settat region.
In anticipation of the imminent reopening of Moroccan airspace, tourism professionals in the Marrakech-Safi region are busy. The arrangements revolve around the "3R" operation.
In Marrakech , hoteliers want to save the winter season at all costs despite the closure of borders. Already about fifty establishments have reopened their doors.
18.3 billion dirhams (MMDH). This is the amount published by the Directorate of Studies and Financial Forecasts (DEPF) and relating to the losses of the tourism sector due to the crisis of the new coronavirus, at the end of the first seven months of 2020, i.e. a 44.1% drop in revenue.
In view of the health crisis context and its impact on the tourism sector, Adel El Fakir, Director General of the Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT), traveled to France on Monday and Tuesday to meet and reassure the main travel producers and distributors, as well as representatives of the industry.
While foreigners and business visitors can now disembark on special flights provided they have an invitation from companies and hotel reservations, Moroccan tourism professionals are waiting to be enlightened.
Seasonal tourist rentals have seen a slight improvement this summer, with an increase of more than 300% in demand, from 102,923 in February to more than 420,000 in August. This trend has fallen at the end of July due to the ban on travel between several cities in Morocco.
The Moroccan police are putting pressure on smuggled alcohol sellers. Several operations were carried out simultaneously in several cities.