Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 8:07 PM
Casablanca – The Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) has encouraged the opening of 35 new lines with 10 airlines for the 2023 summer season.
“As part of the fulfillment of its ambition to promote the tourism sector and in order to benefit from the influx of foreign tourists to Morocco following the historic feat of the Moroccan national team in the final of the world 2022, the ONMT continues to make greater efforts with travel prescribers and national and international airlines to increase the number of tourists to Morocco,” the Office said in a press release.
Thus, the Office has announced an expanded program which concerns 8 Moroccan destinations and promises to support tourist destinations to prepare for a unique summer season. This is reflected in particular by the opening of 35 new lines with 10 airlines for the 2023 summer season, specifies the same source.
In this regard, Adel El Fakir, Director General of the ONMT, quoted in the press release, said: “As you know, air transport is a lever for the development of the tourism sector. For the Office, it seemed necessary to contribute to the creation of new airlines linking Morocco to the rest of the countries of the world in order to strengthen the good reputation enjoyed by our country, by working to ensure an intensive link between Moroccan destinations and the markets. transmitters of tourists to the Kingdom”.
These are 8 Moroccan destinations which are concerned by this vast and friendly program, recalls the Office, citing Agadir, Essaouira, Fez, Marrakech, Nador, Ouarzazate, Rabat and Tangier.
As for the new airlines, they concern 9 source markets: Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom. 10 airlines will operate these new lines, point to point: Aegean Airlines, Air Arabia Maroc, Binter Canarias, EasyJet, Eurowings Discover, Luxair, Ryanair, TUIfly Belgium, Volotea and Vueling, notes the press release, noting that all the delegations of the ONMT abroad have been mobilized for this purpose, with the aim of obtaining the expected results of this approach.
The press release thus cites 4 new airlines for the city of Agadir which will link it to Strasbourg and Lisbon with Ryanair; in Frankfurt with Eurowings Discover and in Glasgow with EasyJet;
There are also 4 new airlines for Essaouira that will connect it to Bordeaux with EasyJet; in the Canary Islands with Binter, in London with Ryanair and in Barcelona with Vueling;
The office also reports 4 new airlines for Fez will link it to Alicante and Palma de Mallorca with Ryanair, to Duesseldorf with Air Arabia Maroc and to Clermont-Ferrand with Ryanair; 7 new airlines for Marrakech will connect it to Nantes with Volotea, to Paris with Vueling, to Franckfurt with Eurowings Discover and with Ryanair; in Athens with Agean, in Luxembourg with Luxair, in Amsterdam and Lisbon with EasyJet; in Girona and Palma de Mallorca with Ryanair and, finally, in Bilbao with Volotea and with Vueling.
Two new airlines for Nador, which will link it to Toulouse and Palma de Mallorca with Ryanair; 2 new airlines for Ouarzazate which will be connected to Barcelona and London with Ryanair.
Three new lines for Rabat which will be connected to Brussels with TUIfly Belgium and to Toulouse and Madrid with Ryanair and 4 new lines for Tangier which will be connected to Montpellier, Cologne, Palma de Mallorca and the Canary Islands with Air Arabia Maroc.
Through this operation, the ONMT pursues its main mission in terms of promotion and marketing of the Moroccan tourist brand and emits strong signs that will inevitably qualify it to gain more confidence from tourism professionals and various international destinations for a season. successful, the beginnings of which are now beginning to emerge on the horizon, concludes the press release.