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.
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 Royal Gendarmerie of Harhoura succeeded in apprehending the suspect in the triple knife attack that took place on Sunday, September 27 in a forest near the Miramar beach. He is said to have seriously injured three people during a robbery that went wrong in the forest.
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.
Many young drug-addicted migrants, mostly of Moroccan origin, addicted to drugs, are increasingly being arrested for burglaries and thefts in the Paris region. The authorities, concerned, want to tackle the root of the problem.
A homeless man discovered "SIF" (Without Fixed Identity) for the six different names he answers to himself, was sentenced to one year in prison. The Moroccan is guilty of intruding into a houseboat, snatching a necklace on Place d’Erlon and making insulting remarks to the police.
18.3 billion dirhams (MMDH). This is the amount published by the Directorate of Studies and Financial Forecasts (DEPF) and relating to the losses of the tourism sector due to the crisis of the new coronavirus, at the end of the first seven months of 2020, i.e. a 44.1% drop in revenue.
At the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca , the luggage of many passengers on a Royal Air Maroc (AT 2201) flight from the United States (New York-JFK airport) was stolen.
The judicial police of the Béni Makada district of Tangier arrested an individual for burglary in a medical unit reserved for Covid-19 patients.
Horse breeding and trading is the finding of criminals to launder dirty money. A lucrative activity not subject to strict accounting control and which benefits from the subsidy of the Kingdom.
The Christian cemetery of Mediouna, near Casablanca, is the victim of a wave of vandalism. Out of the sixty or so graves, only one remains almost intact.
In view of the health crisis context and its impact on the tourism sector, Adel El Fakir, Director General of the Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT), traveled to France on Monday and Tuesday to meet and reassure the main travel producers and distributors, as well as representatives of the industry.