Morocco Aims to Boost Tourism with Marina and Pleasure Port Expansion

Initiated by the International Association of Port Cities (AIVP), this convention was signed by the Moroccan Society of Tourist Engineering (SMIT), the International Association of Port Cities (AIVP), the National Ports Agency (ANP) and the Association of Moroccan Pleasure Ports (APPM), on the sidelines of the 17th World Conference of Cities & Ports held in Tangier.

The objective is to bring together the various stakeholders in order to strengthen investments in the development of tourist boating, indicates a press release from SMIT, specifying that it is a question of making the marinas attractive and visible all year round, in particular through better physical, functional and economic integration of their environment, better matching between the characteristics of existing sites and specific investment opportunities.

SMIT recalled that the Moroccan coastline has dozens of pleasure ports, with quite modern and developed port infrastructure and services, which can represent a wealth for the blue economy encouraged by the Government.

For their part, the Moroccan marinas have privileged assets to develop an internationally oriented tourist activity, it is pointed out.