A delegation of Chinese senior officials is visiting Morocco

A delegation of Chinese senior officials is in Morocco since the 6th of June to discover the country as a destination for tourists, reports on Thursday the Moroccan National office of Tourism (ONMT) in a communiqué. The group includes around fifty Chinese decision-makers who work for travel agencies, and media in the region of Pekin, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Their trip will last till the 16th of June 2017.

The delegation will have the chance to discover during this visit tourism assets of cities like Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech Tangier, Chefchaouen and Fes with all its newly refurbished historical sites. «we were fascinated by the places we have visited so far and the hospitality, I think that Morocco provides just what a Chinese tourist would look for», Mr. Wang, a Journalist who works for CCTV declared in a communiqué.

China offers a significant tourism potential, several operations have already been carried out by the ONMT to develop the promotion of Morocco in the Chinese market, but also to enhance the attractiveness of the country as a destination and thus create demand, says the ONMT. The latter also reports a 300% increase in Chinese visitors in just a year. «A performance generated under the impulse of the Royal Decision to remove entry visas for Chinese nationals», said the same source.