Tourism professionals in Marrakesh have organized a sit-in this Thursday, January 20, to protest the “dire circumstances” of the “agonizing sector,” due to the pandemic and the recent government’s decision to close borders.
A statement from the consortium of tourism operators in the Marrakech-Safi region stated that the sit-in is in protest of the “government’s silence, evasions, and prosthetic solutions.”
The statement highlighted that “70% of Marrakech’s population has been affected by the dramatic tourism situation.”
Being a preferred destination for European tourists, especially this time of year, Marrakech is suffering from the government’s “blurry vision that paralyzed the tourism sector and its various related operators,” according to the statement.
The consortium of tourism operators called out the government’s “lack of strategy” to support the tourism sector after inflicting “severely restrictive measures,” which they say has exacerbated the situation.
The national tourism sector has been struggling with the effects of the pandemic, and the subsequent preventive measures “stifling” the professionals.
The government recently announced an emergency plan, deploying a budget and delaying debt repayments until the improvement of the new COVID-19 wave, that’s plagued the country for the last 6 weeks.
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