While waiting for the resumption of their activities, tourism professionals are offering preferential and attractive offers to domestic tourists, in order to mitigate the negative impact of the coronavirus on the sector.
The global health crisis has strongly impacted all the vital sectors of the country. Tourism, the main lever of the Moroccan economy, has experienced an unprecedented 45% drop over the past 4 months.
The Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) is launching a series of promotional actions to support the relaunch of the sector, accompany Moroccan citizens, regions and operators.
The Moroccan tourism sector, one of the sectors most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, is preparing for its relaunch. Relying on its potential, Morocco remains a choice tourist destination for tourists at the end of the pandemic, according to the magazine "Travel Daily News".
Tourism professionals in the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region met on Tuesday to develop a program to revive domestic tourism, which will be operational as soon as the lockdown is lifted.
The hotel group "Accor" is betting on the resumption of tourism activities in Africa after the Covid-19 crisis. In this perspective, it favors Morocco to develop a leisure tourism.
While Morocco has not yet set a date for the reopening of its borders, tourism professionals are impatient and are warning about the loss of their share of the global market in 2021.
Lufthansa group airlines are preparing to resume their flights to Agadir . They offer up to 2,000 connections to around 130 summer tourist destinations.
Faced with the impact of the health crisis related to covid-19, hotels and inns would benefit from lowering their price schedules in order to capture the money that many Moroccan tourists spend each year abroad, particularly in Spain, due to the sometimes high prices charged in Morocco.
Spain is reopening its borders to foreign tourists, including Moroccans, as of July, the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, announced on Saturday.
Faced with the impact of covid-19 on global tourism, Morocco could focus on domestic tourism in order to revive a sector in agony.
Two French camper van tourists, blocked in Morocco for a month and a half, found an opportunity to finally return home. Even if they have to spend a good part of time on the boat before reaching their homes, the two French tourists are determined to face everything.