The Hilton group announces the elimination of 2,100 jobs worldwide due to the impact of the health crisis related to covid-19 on tourism. Are its Moroccan employees affected by this wave of layoffs?
Tourism is the priority for Moroccans after confinement. They are eagerly awaiting the lifting of confinement, recently postponed, in order to rediscover the pleasures of travel.
Closed for a few months due to the coronavirus, the seaside resorts of Saïdia and Marchica are preparing to reopen. Despite all the goodwill of the competent authorities to offer attractive offers, these sites could lose, as soon as they resume, the clientele of Moroccans living abroad (MRE).
The Head of Government, Saâdeddine El Othmani affirmed, on Tuesday, June 16, before the House of Councillors that tourism is one of the economic sectors that will be relaunched during the second stage of the deconfinement.
According to a recent study conducted by the Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT), 70% of Moroccans want to travel after the confinement period. This could give a breath of fresh air to the tourism sector, which has been hit hard by the health crisis related to covid-19.
The city of Fnideq is getting ready to welcome tourists after the ban on cross-border trade with Ceuta. This is how development work is being initiated in this city to succeed in this conversion.
After three months of suspension of tourism activities following the Coronavirus, the Regional Tourism Council (CRT) has put in place a plan to fight the health crisis.
Lacking foreign tourists this year, Morocco will have to rely on locals and perhaps also Moroccans living abroad if they are allowed to return to the country.
Tourism and air transport were the first to be affected by the pandemic. For the recovery, Nadia Fettah , Minister of Tourism, Handicrafts, Air Transport and Social Economy, is calling on all Moroccans to prioritize their country.
A man of Moroccan origin was arrested on Tuesday by the Spanish police. He is accused of his "alleged participation in the financing of terrorist activities".
After more than three months of suspension of its activities, the players in the tourism sector are preparing for the resumption. A roadmap has been put in place aimed at the takeoff of the sector through the preservation of employment, skills and the capacities of professionals with sustained attention to domestic tourism.
Heavily impacted by the global health crisis, Marrakech, a tourist city par excellence, is preparing to relaunch its activities. An integrated and complementary tourist product will soon be put in place at the request of the associations and representative bodies of the car rental sector.