MARRAKECH - Morocco

Marrakech

Marrakech, the "Red City" or the "Pearl of the South" in tourist brochures, has experienced tremendous growth in tourism over the past decade. It has become a must for luxury tourism and for mass tourism. The development of low-cost has also helped attract new customers, which comes in Marrakech for the weekend. International tourism has also been encouragement from the Ministry of Tourism Vision 2010 and Vision 2020, tourism texts defining guidelines nationally, make Marrakech a major consolidate pole. Jemaa el Fna is a centerpiece of this strategy, a place designed to strengthen the cultural image of the city, and retain tourists in a city that was mostly, until the 2000s, a step in the circuit imperial cities and a gateway to the mountains and the desert south. The city has also become a popular place of recreation for city dwellers in Rabat and Casablanca. The Ministry of Tourism has set up there a decade of encouraging national tourism policy with Bladi Plan, which provided attractive prices in hotels for Moroccan tourists and building more housing in suitable style Holiday, Family, Moroccans. Although he did not have the expected results, the plan encouraged the arrival of Moroccan tourists in Marrakech, visible on the site all year round. Of all the tourist attractions of the city, the Jemaa el Fna is the most popular and the one that experienced the highest increase in attendance over the last twenty years. At any time of day or night, thousands of Moroccan and foreign tourists flock there