Tanger will become a tourist City Break

The Prime Minister of Morocco made the regional tourism development.
One of them is to transform Tangiers in the City-break - the city for two days and longer breaks on travel for tourists Morocco property.

The calculated at 10 years, the program will strengthen the infrastructure of the city "strait", located in 278 km north of Rabat property, and its region, improve tourist attraction Tangiers.

The authorities expect that in addition to achieving long-term prospects, the program will allow the city to accept the International universal exhibition in 2012. Currently, Tangier is a candidate to receive the exhibition, together with the cities of other countries.

In 10 years in Tangiers property will include new hotels to 23 thousand seats will be contained in the order of cultural objects. Target programs - in 2016 figure to reach 5.5 million tourists admission person-nights a year. At first glance, this figure looks fantastic, because current results much more modest - 700 thousand person-nights.

Laila Aluyat (Laila Aluat) Head of Tangier-Tetuan in the Office of the Investment Department of the Touring Morocco believes that the objectives can be reached, because the Tangier - is a very popular resort and cultural center on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The increase in the flow of tourists here are still constrained only limited capacity of local infrastructure.