This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from Hibapress, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Rabat
Prime Minister, Aziz Akhenouch, yesterday, on Monday, in the House of Representatives, stressed that the security and stability that our country knew under the wise direction of King Mohammed VI played a major role in the unprecedented results obtained by the tourism sector in the tourism sector in our country in 2024.
In his commentary on the questions of parliamentarians during the monthly session of questions devoted to the subject: “The main trends in the tourism policy of our country”, he added that the tourism sector had obtained in the era of this government Exceptional results, by attracting more to 17.4 million tourists in 2024.
Akhenouch declared that this number is significant, but the most important is that Morocco managed last year to attract 3 million additional tourists compared to the year 2023, explaining that over a period of 10 full years of 2010 to 2019, the sector was able to attract only 3.2 million additional tourists.
The spokesman underlined the figures, that this means that this government, thanks to the validity of the choices it has made in the tourism sector, has reached in one year what was made in the previous 10 years, Stressing that these results indicate that the tourism sector for the government is a real success, it is not political auctions, as much as the moment of collective pride, as it said.
In this context, Aziz Akhenouch Recalled the Circumstance In Which His Government Assomed Responsibility, Recalling that its Appointment was made in the glory of the Border Closing Crisis Due to the Pandemic, Which Lasted for Two Years from 2020 to 2022, Wher the Majority of The borders have been closed and which was the tourism sector is the most affected.
The exceptional stage in which his government was appointed, according to Akhenouch’s expression, at the end of the closure and at the start of the boot, it is necessary to make a set of choice, and it is necessary to be The options that are correct because the sector lived almost in a structural crisis.
He stressed that the government in this context did not hesitate, so that in the context of an urgent plan, it decided to give the tourism sector 2 billion dirhams, in order to support it because we took 5 important measures.
The Prime Minister mentioned these measures, which is the extension of the disbursement of the remuneration of the tourism sector in the 2000 dirhams tourism sector through the National Social Security Fund, the exemption from tourism institutions of the functions to engage In this fund, extending the degree for the payment of bank loans and exempting the owners of the professional tax hotel due to two years.
The government has also allocated, according to Akhenoush, the amount of a billion dirhams to rehabilitate hotel institutions, of which many tourist institutions have benefited.
