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Tourism sector stakeholders from completely different areas of the Kingdom took half on this assembly to assist the implementation of this roadmap and its breakdown by sector, primarily based on the tourism specificities of every area.
Thus, this session assembly between professionals and establishments was a chance to check the potential for creating laboratories to spice up the sectors “nature, mountain climbing & trekking, desert & oasis and journey, intangible heritage and sustainable improvement”.
For the pinnacle of the Nature Tourism division on the Moroccan Society of Tourism Engineering (SMIT), Moulay M’hmed Hamidi, the brand new roadmap favors “reasoning by sector reasonably than by vacation spot.”
Tourism, he defined, is present process a paradigm shift and research have proven that statistics ought to keep in mind vacationers by sector.
“Ouarzazate is taken into account the capital of the desert & oasis and journey sector, like Beni-Mellal-Khenifra for Mountaineering & trekking. However different areas might have the traits, which suggests that the emphasis ought to be positioned on the sectors,” stated Mr. Hamidi.
And to assist: “There are additionally cross-cutting sectors such because the sustainable improvement sector which may very well be utilized on the stage of all areas no matter their vacationer specialities”.
Mr. Hamidi additionally stated that the target of this assembly is to conduct consultations with companions from the completely different sectors in an effort to in the end arrive at a sector contract between the supervisory division, the areas and the professionals.
For his half, President of the Regional Tourism Council (CRT) of Drâa-Tafilalet, Mohamed Takhchi, careworn the significance of selling and upgrading oasis and mountain tourism that are the particularity of the Drâa-Tafilalet area, notably in Ouarzazate, and which are a magnet for a rising variety of vacationers.
“In the course of the work of this assembly, we examined the proposals of execs and all stakeholders within the sector, and picked up their suggestions to converge our factors of view and adjust to this roadmap,” he stated.
With a finances of 6.1 billion dirhams (MMDH), the 2023-2026 Tourism Roadmap goals to draw 17.5 million vacationers by 2026, create 200,000 direct jobs and generate 120 billion dirhams in tourism income.
2024-07-02 08:25:16