Being mindful of the important role that the means of communication and information play in promoting tourist destinations, CRT Marrakech has launched the Website you are now visiting. It is manifest that the new technologies of information compel us to make this window available to the tourist-sending markets-- a window aimed at informing such markets on our city and its surrounding areas.
Marrakech has huge tourist potentials that are yet to be discovered.
With its prestigious past, Marrakech has the privilege of being the city of choice for scores of intellectuals, heads of state, artists and internationally fêted movie, music, and sports celebrities.
Every year, the ochre city hosts large economic, artistic and cultural events. Several conventions and conferences of worldwide scope and reach have taken place in Marrakech, thanks to the city’s magnificent facilities, such as The Conventions Palace and the upscale, luxurious hotels, casinos, and golf courses.
Concomitantly, the Marrakech region is replete with natural riches. The city’s propinquity to the High Atlas mountains, with the peak of Jebel Toubkal ascending to 4,165 meters, the valleys of Ourika and Asni punctuated with picturesque Berber villages, the national park of Toubkal where one can find a fauna and a flora of the most exceptional variety in the world, those are but a few examples of the so many assets that make the region an obvious destination for travelers and world trekkers.
The Marrakech region also includes a seaside resort: the enchanting city of Essaouira, less than a two-hour westward drive from the city of Marrakech.
Visitors who stay in Essaouira will discover a city with an ancient civilization and age-old traditions. The forts of Essaouira’s old town and the city’s port are a living illustration of how large this seaside resort was since it was founded by the Portuguese in the 16th century. It was then called Mogador. Essaouira, however, was originally discovered by the Phoenicians in the 6th century BC.
