Marrakech’s Iconic Jemaa El-Fna Square Sees Gradual Revival as Tourism Slowly Rebounds

The famous Jemaa el-Fna square, the beating heart of Marrakech, is gradually regaining its crowds, reports the MAP, which points out that thanks to the manifest will of the political and tourist chain, the effects of the recovery are being felt, even if we are still far from the emblematic effervescence.

The first foreign and national tourists are rediscovering the animation of the city which offers, for the time being, a timid service of master craftsmen and shop owners. Women specializing in henna tattoos are the attraction of foreign and national tourists.

Thus, through Marrakech, the tourism sector, weakened by the pandemic, seems to be slowly recovering with local tourists who are offering themselves arts and other accessories as souvenirs.

"With the decision to apply low-cost tickets for flights, several Moroccan and foreign tourists have arrived in Marrakech. Life seems to be resuming its normal course after a year and a half of pandemic," said Hicham, a silver jewelry seller in Jemaa el-Fna square, to the MAP. "But something has been broken in us," he admitted. "We have no idea what will happen next, but our faith in God is great," he confesses.

A prayer that expresses the feeling of an entire tourist chain that hopes to regain the crowds of the good old days and restore Marrakech to its rightful place.