The next Notam from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation indicating the lifting or not of air traffic in Morocco will be made public on October 10. A decision that airlines and professionals in Marrakech are eagerly awaiting to consider a resumption.
The new measures put in place by the Moroccan authorities have allowed Agadir to welcome its first foreign tourists. This situation comes after several months of freezing tourism activity due to the coronavirus.
The Moroccan Ambassador to Poland, Abderrahim Atmoun, and the representative of the Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) in Poland, Rachid En Naciri, organized the golf tournament "The Open Ambassadors Cup" in Warsaw last Saturday in partnership with other embassies. They took the opportunity to present "the tourist assets of Morocco as a golfing destination par excellence".
Tourism Minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui says that the projects to resume tourism in Morocco, including the abolition of the PCR test requirement, are under evaluation. This was during the videoconference organized by the CFCIM last Thursday.
The battle to relaunch tourism in Morocco is being waged on two fronts, domestic and international. An international call for tenders has been launched, and three global communication agencies are working on the project and will submit their work in mid-October.
It’s a year to forget for many Moroccan professionals working in vacation rentals. In addition to the absence of international tourists, they had to face the tightening of rules imposed by the health authorities.
Creating an Investment Fund to revive investment, this is what the tourism sector’s program contract plans. At the forefront, consolidation and innovation projects.
A Marshall emergency plan has been unveiled by tourism professionals in Agadir-Souss-Massa to revive the sector in the Kingdom. The intensification of domestic flights, the creation of small hotel management groups, among others, are part of it.
The Moroccan government is responding favorably to a request made by tourism professionals. This concerns the elimination of the serological test and the duration of validity of the PCR test.
Tourism promoters have their souls riveted to the recovery and spare no effort to successfully carry out the winter season. According to Nadia Fettah Alaoui, the Minister of Tourism, Handicrafts, and Transport, two pillars support the promotion of the tourism sector: the reopening of air traffic and the implementation of competitive offers to attract more foreign tourists.
The Mamounia palace, which has been undergoing renovations for a few months, hopes to reopen its doors from October 16th. All that tourism operators are waiting for is the lifting of the state of emergency and real air programming.
The coronavirus has had a negative impact on tourism in the Merzouga area and the entire Tafilalet region. In the absence of visibility on the sector, professionals are launching a distress call.