Tourism Minister Fatim-Zahra Ammor has just launched the human capital strengthening programs planned as part of the tourism roadmap for the 2023-2026 period . Proof of the importance the Moroccan authorities attach to the role of people in the development of the sector.
Morocco is gradually recovering from the devastating earthquake that hit the Marrakech region on September 8. Despite this tragedy, tourists have continued to flock to the ochre city, which has helped the kingdom and local populations overcome this terrible ordeal.
In preparation for the 2030 World Cup, which it is co-organizing with Spain and Portugal, Morocco plans to increase the capacity of new hotels to 500,000 beds to accommodate the many tourists who will visit the kingdom on this occasion.
More than 960,000 tourists visited Morocco in September 2023, an increase of 7% compared to the same month last year, the Ministry of Tourism, Crafts, and Social and Solidarity Economy announced on Tuesday.
The Minister of Tourism, Handicrafts and the Social and Solidarity Economy, Fatim-Zahra Ammor, mentioned the possibility of reopening certain closed hotels to accommodate the victims of the earthquake that hit the kingdom on the night of Friday, September 8.
The Moroccan authorities have just put things in order in the hotel industry. For a few days now, a new procedure for classifying tourist accommodation establishments has been in effect in the kingdom.
Hotel operators in Morocco have denounced, in a letter addressed to the Ministry of Tourism, the monopoly of the Booking platform, calling for urgent action by the authority to put an end to these abuses.
In Morocco, national tourists and Moroccans living abroad are facing high prices at the start of the summer vacation season. The Minister of Tourism, Fatim-Zahra Ammor, was questioned on this subject by deputies.
The Moroccan government is working to regulate alternative accommodations. A new tax for accommodation with locals will soon be introduced. A way for it to regulate home-based tourism.
Moroccan tourism has experienced a spectacular surge with the arrival of 2.9 million tourists at border posts during the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 17% compared to the same period in 2019.
Slowly but surely, the tourism industry is gradually recovering from Covid-19. This emerges from the presentation of the budget of the Ministry of Tourism before the Commission of Productive Sectors in the House of Representatives.
Tourism Minister Fatim-Zahra Ammor launched the work on the new roadmap for the sector with the National Confederation of Tourism and its main member associations and federations.