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• Luxury Sofitel Resort in Agadir Shuts Down Amid Tourism Crisis, Staff Layoffs
  11 May 2020, by Kamal

  The luxury hotel, the Sofitel Agadir Royal Bay Resort, would have closed down, after having released all of its staff.
  The grand palace of Agadir would have been heavily impacted by the economic crisis caused by the covid-19 pandemic, which has affected all sensitive sectors, particularly the tourism sector, reports Rue20.
  Due to lack of customers, the hotel would have incurred significant deficits, the site reported, adding that some human rights associations suspect the establishment (…)

• Accor Group’s Sofitel Agadir Faces Uncertain Future as Management Contract Nears End
  29 May 2020, by Kamal

  The situation of the staff of the luxury hotel, Sofitel Agadir Royal Bay Resorts, is in suspense, after the divorce between its main Emirati shareholder and the company Risma, the legal representative of the French group Accor.
  According to the site Agadir24, the businessman from the Gulf does not intend to extend the management agreement with the Moroccan company, whose contract expires in June.
  The freezing of relations between the two partners would have contributed to the stagnation (…)

• Police Raid Marrakech Sofitel Hotel, Arrest 70 at Illegal New Year’s Eve Party
  5 January 2021, by Kamal

  The curfew imposed on New Year’s Eve did not prevent the organization of parties. This is particularly the case at the Sofitel Marrakech where 70 people were gathered in the hotel’s nightclub.
  The management of the prestigious hotel establishment did not heed the closure order issued by the city authorities and continued to welcome customers in defiance of the state of health emergency, reports Alyaoum24.
  A raid, carried out around 11 p.m. by a BNPJ unit in coordination with the DGST (…)