In a number of posts over the last year The View from Fez has commented on the way that false guides have decreased in numbers. For years the Fez Medina was plagued with faux guides to the point where travel guides such as the Lonely Planet issued warnings about them and every traveler had a story to tell of being hassled.
So where have all the false guides gone? According to figures from the Tourism Squad some 312 were arrested in 2004 and in 2005 they managed to capture 1167 false guides. In the last three months 194 false guides have been arrested and brought to justice.
According to the squad 77 of the false guides were arrested in September while 54 were pulled out of the Medina in July and 63 in the month of August.
The Tourism squad, which works both in uniform and plainclothes, aims at ensuring security for tourists and to discourage all sources of nuisance such as false guides, beggars, itinerant merchants.
Tags: Morocco Fes, Maghreb news
1 comment:
just been to fez and now in Medelt. every where my girlfriend and i go we are pesterd in the street by guides and when we ignore them we are insulted. the guides are alive and well .lonely planet is correct to point it out.gizmo y lidia espana
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