Yesterday King Mohammed VI presided over the signing ceremony of a convention to develop and upgrade a tourist resort in Ifrane (200km east of Rabat) for a sum amounting to USD 46.36Mn.The project, to be carried out by the Moroccan-Kuwaiti Consortium, is part of a project dubbed "Biladi" designed to promote domestic tourism. The new resort will be built on an area of 30ha with an accommodation capacity of 1,450 beds in the form of tourist residences and camping sites.
Launched back in July 2007, the "Biladi" plan provides for the creation of eight new tourist stations in the most popular tourist cities in Morocco, such as Marrakech, Casablanca, El-Jadida, Agadir, Essaidia, Tangiers, Fes, and Kenitra. It is planned to raise the country's hosting capacity to 9 million overnight stays by 2012, against 2.6 million in 2003.
The projects were described to the king with detailed information about the projects in Ifrane between now and 2009.The program envisages developing several streets and green spaces in the city, modernizing irrigation water pumping networks, public lighting, and the construction and equipping of four public fountains.
A NEW MOSQUE
Earlier in the day, King Mohammed VI laid the foundation stone of a USD 1.09Mn mosque to be constructed in Atlas Mountain town. Spanning on an area of 1,250 sq meters, the mosque has a capacity of 1,400 people. It includes prayer halls for men and women, and other trade-oriented facilities. Construction works are expected to run for 16 months.
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