After Royal Air Maroc, Easyjet and Ryanair, the Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) has announced a new agreement with Air France and its subsidiary Transavia. The objective is to ensure a large number of flights for the winter tourist season, particularly during the year-end period.
Israeli airlines are working to operate flights to Morocco as early as 2021, with more than 150,000 Israeli tourists on board the planes. This could give a new impetus to Moroccan tourism, which has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) wants to make Casablanca a top tourist destination. In this context, new guidelines have been presented to tourism stakeholders to revive tourism in the large metropolis.
The imminence of the start of the vaccination campaign in Morocco augurs a glimmer of hope among tourism professionals. The vice-president of the National Confederation of Tourism (CNT), Fouzi Zemrani, envisions a resumption of the sector starting in April 2021.
The police elements at Agadir Al-Massira airport made an unexpected discovery from a Swedish passenger. A man was trying to conceal about 1,600 reptiles in homemade objects, to bring them back to Sweden.
The Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) is on a tour of the 12 regional councils to develop its post-Covid response strategy.
Awaiting the arrival of foreign tourists, Morocco wants to focus on medical tourism. It represents a potential of 300,000 additional arrivals in the kingdom, says Imad Barrakad, chairman of the board of the Moroccan Tourist Engineering Company (SMIT).
On the initiative of professionals, the Marrakech Convention Bureau (MCB) has just been created, in order to set up a strike force for this segment. The MCB benefits from the support of the Regional Tourism Council (CRT), the association of travel agents in the region (ARAVMS) and the association of Marrakech hoteliers.
A second call for applications has been launched for the benefit of the owners and managers of hotel establishments in Agadir . The final deadline to benefit from the grant dedicated to the renovation and upgrading of their establishments is set for December 31, 2020.
Subject to the reopening of the Moroccan borders, the airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) will launch two weekly direct flights between Dakhla and Paris. A first.
Companies in the tourism sector affected by the effects of the coronavirus will continue to benefit from the support of the Moroccan state until March 2021. This is the result of an agreement signed between the National Confederation of Tourism, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Tourism.
Among the 10 resorts that will be open for the holiday season is the one in Morocco, Marrakech la Palmeraie, Club Med announced at a press conference.