A record number… Essaouira welcomed more than a million tourists in 2024
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press
The president of the Essaouira Regional Tourism Council, Redouane Khan, confirmed that the Windy City “reached a historic level during the year 2024 by recording more than a million tourists”.
In a statement on last year’s figures, Khan confirmed that “the city of Essaouira also reached a new record by recording more than 3 million overnight stays.”
The Essaouira Regional Tourism Council stressed that these figures reflect the performance of classified tourist accommodation establishments, noting that to this are added “the significant influxes of the informal sector and the rental of businesses by residents, which represent still a very important part of tourism.” the tourist market in Essaouira.
According to Khan, “the year 2024 was also characterized by exceptional dynamism in the tourism sector in Essaouira, which has seen the seasonal nature of tourist flows disappear for ten years”. Today, Essaouira is full of tourists all year round, winter and summer, autumn and spring.
The same source underlines that “this development was brought and supported by the civil society of Essaouira represented by the Essaouira Mogador Association, which organizes or co-organizes dozens of music festivals in addition to dozens of forums and meetings all throughout the year to discuss, among other things, the centrality of culture, arts and heritage. » In the pioneering sustainable development strategy carried out legitimately and successfully for more than 30 years by the Essaouira Mogador Association.
He added that this year looks very promising, recalling the astonishing progress of the workshops of the City of Arts, Culture and Heritage, which will bear the name of the world-renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer, as well as the launch renovation and development work. for the “Mogador” tourist resort, with a total investment of up to 5 billion dirhams.
The Regional Tourism Council concluded that “it remains to provide a more adapted response to the challenges of national and international connectivity of the city of Essaouira by road, air and rail to enhance and improve the exceptional dynamics experienced the windy city.”
