Morocco

Countries and regions across the world have long understood the potential of the MICE segment as a vehicle to drive high-value tourism and economic development. In recent decades this has led to significant investment, with nations working to position themselves as centres for the industry, both regionally and globally, aided by greater air...

Aided by easier and cheaper travel, global tourism has experienced two decades of almost uninterrupted growth. According to the World Bank, the number of international departures more than doubled between 1997 and 2017, from 687m to 1.57bn per annum.

Morocco is amongst the best developed tourism markets in Africa, benefitting from its close proximity to Europe, a wide variety of landscapes and attractions, year-round warm weather in parts of the country, and a more stable political and security environment than some of its regional competitors. The years since 2016 have seen healthy rises...

Although agriculture, tourism and industry are all well-established sectors in the region and retain significant potential to function as motors for economy-wide growth, the region also has the opportunity to reinvent itself and expand through the entrenchment of new business activities, such as offshoring, ICT and renewable energy production...

Fez-Meknes is one of Morocco’s most important manufacturing centres: the region is the site of 653 industrial units, equal to 8% of the national total, and the sector employs 26,300 people, or 5% of the national workforce. The regional sector has grown significantly since the end of the 20th century, and the region has become home to a large...

Boasting a dynamic and diversified economy, the Fez-Meknes region contributed 9.4% to Morocco’s national GDP in 2018, fourth by economic output behind the Casablanca-Settat, Rabat-Salé-Kenitra and Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima regions. Established in 2015 as one of 12 distinct administrative areas through the territorial reorganisation mandated by...