Morocco’s Tourist Transport Industry Faces Crisis, Pleads for Government Aid

In order to draw the government’s attention to the grievances of this professional category regarding the unemployment that has affected it for more than 18 months, the umbrella organization of tourist carriers has addressed "a final" appeal to the government, according to a press release.

The note indicates that the sector is at the last stage of its gradual demise, begging the government to empathize with the plight of professionals who are facing a situation of extreme precariousness.

For months, laments the FNTT, the rulers have turned a deaf ear, specifying that it is now "urgently necessary to save thousands of jobs, come to the aid of thousands of families who subsist thanks to this sector, preserve an essential link in the tourism chain and prepare the recovery with innovative tools".

In fact, according to the FNTT, the demands of the professionals can be summarized as "the exemption from tax and professional tax in accordance with the 2020/2022 program contract, and the implementation of the decisions of the vigilance committee as provided for in the program contract by postponing, without interest, the loan maturities until the end of December 2021, given the inactivity that the sector has experienced since March 2020".

Furthermore, the federation leaders also ask the tourist transport to "extend support to employees until the end of 2021, due to the interruption of their means of subsistence as well as to reformulate the specifications and work to involve professionals in the development of any future program or action plan concerning the tourism sector".