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Tourism: The very first signs of recovery

O N the eve of the summer sea- Fatim-Zahra Ammor, And it’s a global trend that the World

son, there is a general mobili-
Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has
guest at the Club
zation of the entire ecosystem
of the tourist industry. Indeed, after two de L’Economiste also just confirmed. That being said, the
reference year remains 2019, since it
meeting: “We have
years almost at a standstill, the tourism done extensive work predates the health crisis. Precisely, at
industry is about to make a new start. with the Moroccan constant scope compared to the refe-
And to get off to a good start, one of Tourism Board to rence year (2019), the sector generated
secure a large volume
the very first positive signs will have of seats, i.e. more barely 60% of the revenues. Despite
been the easing of access procedures than 4.25 million considerable losses, optimism remains
to Morocco, which took place last seats for this summer prevalent, given the harbingers of reco-
Tuesday, May 17 in the evening, by season! There are very which are increasingly confirmed.
offering tourists the choice between 300,000 tourists regis- “We are quite confident of a return to
tered with traditional
the vaccination passport and the PCR TOs and 2 million 2019 flows by summer. We have carried
test. One day after the removal of the overnight stays with out substantive work with the National
PCR test lock, Fatim-Zahra Ammor, online TOs. We are Tourist Office (ONMT) to secure a cer-
minister of Tourism, Handicrafts, So- convinced that next tain number of seats. We are talking
cial and Solidarity Economy, took part summer will see great about more than 4.25 million secure
in the Club de L’ Economiste meeting. things happen” seats for this summer season! There
(Ph. F. Alnasser)
Without hesitation or demagogy, the are 300,000 tourists registered with
minister, from the RNI party, delive- recovery are there”, immediately said porting evidence, the line ministry has traditional TOs and 2 million overnight
red an exhaustive analysis concerning the line minister. Indeed, according to identified 1.4 million tourists at border stays with online TOs. This means that
the levers for accelerating Morocco as Fatim-Zahra Ammor, since February posts and 2.9 million overnight stays. we are convinced that next summer will
a destination, the priority actions to re- 7, date of the opening of the borders In terms of revenues, the Morocco see things happen,” said the minister.
build the market, the catalysts via tour and of the easing of health restrictions, destination collected no less than 9.7 The goal of the line ministry and of
operators (TO), the accommodation the very first progressive signs of reco- billion MAD (about US$ 97 million), tourism professionals is to increase the
establishments, and the air transport, very have been recorded in a context “which represents more than 80% number of tourists and arrivals in order
in order to multiply the flow of tourist of improvement in the epidemiologi- compared to the same period in 2021,” to be able to return, from the beginning
arrivals. “Certainly, the tourism sector cal situation and against a backdrop of notes the minister. One thing is certain, of 2023, to the performance levels
will have been the most impacted by the sharp decline in the progression of the the recovery is definitely here. Moreo- achieved in 2019.o
health crisis. But today, the first signs of virus and of the contagions. With sup- ver, it is confirmed almost everywhere. Amin RBOUB

Farmers: Social protection on track

O N Wednesday, the spot- lows them to deduct the contribution

for the CNSS. In this operation, the
light was on the ministry of
Agriculture who organized
for farmers, one, Al Ard, is a profes-
a seminar on strengthening the com- bank wishes to create two accounts
pulsory medical insurance (AMO) sional account and another account,
implementation mechanism and on Dar, is a personal account which will
the establishment of the National be used to receive the benefits related
Agricultural Registry (RNA). But in to the medical services. These will be
reality, this is a pretext to speed up two separate accounts and the Bank
the implementation of the generali- will not be able to make withdrawals
zation of social protection in favor from the Dar account.
of farmers, who number 1.6 million In this major project, an important
people. This resulted in the signing element comes into play, namely
of four partnership agreements for the draft law creating the National
the exchange of information and Agricultural Registry (RNA) which
data, one with the Crédit Agricole du establishes a new major stage in the
Maroc group, the second one with the management and governance of the
National Land Conservation Agency, The draft law establishing the national agricultural register institutes a major new step in the management and sector, in particular the acceleration
and a third one with the social secu- governance of the sector, in particular the acceleration of the social protection of farmers of social protection for farmers. The
rity agency (CNSS), this latter having this system, particularly on the cru- the two institutions will exchange RNA consists of a comprehensive
also signed an agreement with the cial issue of the financial relationship information and files. Crédit Agricole census of operators and agricultural
Crédit Agricole group. between the beneficiary and CNSS. will make available 720,000 custo- holdings at the national level, with
To support this project, Crédit Agri- A relationship based on the payment mers who are account holders. To this their geographical location. This sys-
cole will launch a communication of the contribution and the service, figure, it will be necessary to add the tem will also be used to provide data
campaign to make farmers aware “which requires a financial interme- 150,000 to 200,000 accounts of Ardi on agricultural development programs
of the need to sign up for this new diary who must be able to provide ad- and Fellah. This is an essential point and information facilitating access to
strategic product. Moreover, Crédit ditional services that go hand in hand that will save time in the rollout of this health coverage and to social protec-
Agricole has undertaken to help the with this service”, underlined the boss system. For most customers, Crédit tion for farmers.o
line ministry and the CNSS to deploy of this Bank. It is in this capacity that Agricole will offer a product that al- Mohamed CHAOUI
Friday 27 May 2022