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Vietnamese images promoted in Morocco

A seminar which aimed to promote Vietnam’s tourism potential was held in Casablanca city, Morocco in early November, attracting representatives of travel agents, tourism service suppliers and aviation companies.

At the seminar jointly held by the Vietnamese Embassy, travel tourism agency Privilege Group and Morocco’s Diplomatic magazine, Ambassador Cao Xuan Than affirmed that Vietnam is an ideal, safe and reliable destination for foreign tourists.

The Vietnamese government always creates favourable conditions and supports tourism enterprises to ensure safety and security for foreign visitors, he said, adding that the embassy in Morocco will act as a bridge to provide information and facilitate visa processing for Moroccan tourists.

On the occasion, he also asked airlines which offer flight services to Vietnam, such as AirFrance and Qatar Airways, to pay more attention to promoting sale promotion campaigns and offer preferential airfare conditions for Moroccan companies conducting tours to Vietnam.

Head of the Moroccan Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Ministry’s Department of Asia and Oceania Badre Eddine Allali hailed the Vietnamese Embassy’s initiative of organising the seminar to promote the images of Vietnamese people and land to Morocco, a country of 30 million people, which welcomes 8-9 million foreign tourists, bringing in 7 billion USD a year.

Chairman of Casablanca travel agents’ association Ahmed Berkhmis said Vietnam will become a favourite destination for Moroccan visitors.

He also asked the Vietnamese embassy in Morocco to support local tourism enterprises in information exchange and seeking partners from Vietnam.

Vietnam is still an unusually strange destination to Morocco. Every, only 200 Moroccans come to Vietnam to seek business opportunities or visit. This is a limited number in comparison with the number of Moroccan visitors to other Southeast Asian countries every year.

Statistics show that about 4, 000 Moroccan tourists visit Thailand every year, and the figure to Malaysia and Indonesia is double that.

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