ONMT: the Board of Directors approves the opening of two new delegations in Moscow and Beijing
12-02-2009

On that occasion, the members of the Board of Directors have attended a talk given by Mr Hamid Addou, the managing Director of the ONMT, in which he has drawn up a balance of the year 2008, highlighting the positive results recorded by Morocco destination in the field of tourist arrivals (7,9 million tourists) despite the current economic crisis that faces all the tourist generating markets.

In such an international economic context, the ONMT with an overall budget of 550 million dirhams, has put into place an ambitious action plan for the year 2009, through the consolidation of the achievements in the traditional markets and the conquest of new promising ones such as Eastern Europe , Russia and the Gulf countries.

For his part, Mr Boussaid has emphasized the importance of the anticipation plan, CAP 2009, for which the office has raised an amount of 50 million Dhs. The Minister has also said that “the Office, insofar as it is the spearhead of the tourist sector, should be equipped with sufficient skills in order to advance its role and its strategy for the years to come, in close collaboration with strategic partners, including mainly the professionals, the RAM/ONDA and the CRT”. “One of the major projects of the year 2009 is undoubtedly the launch of Saidia's seaside resort next June (the first station of the Azur Plan) ”said the Minister, underlying that “ the Government of His Majesty the King gives special importance to the success reflected in the opening of such a station”.

Having adopted the financial balance of the year 2008 as well as the action plan of 2009, the Board of Directors has also approved a resolution which authorizes the ONMT to open two new delegations in Moscow and Beijing : Russia and China are considered to be dynamic inbound markets. The board has also adopted a resolution intended to provide the ONMT with a program-contract with the State, determining the numerical targets and the necessary means to achieve them.

he issue of human resources as well as that related to the adjustment of the markets regulation, with the aim of granting more flexibility to the procedures of the ONMT worldwide, will be submitted to the approval of the next Board of Directors.

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