Well beyond the economic rebound expected and announced for the post-Covid-19 period, Essaouira thus sees brilliantly recognized the validity of the structural and pioneering choices around which, at the initiative and under the impetus of the Essaouira Association -Mogador, she chose in 1991, to found its rebirth and its specificity by offering the beauty of its sites and its beaches a setting set with the depth of its history and the richness of its cultural heritage.
A press release from the Municipal Council indicates that in 1991, Essaouira had about ten hotels with an offer of less than 500 approved beds.
Today the number of hotel accommodation establishments in the Cité des Alizés exceeds 500 units, of which two thirds are hotel riads and one third with establishments of up to 250 rooms, the whole representing 9,800 beds in the sector. formal and about as much in the informal.
With a DNA nurtured and shaped for more than 30 years by the exceptional richness of its material and immaterial heritage, by the proactive and successful addition of all its diversities and by the quality of its cultural offer, the city of Alizés harvests today today the fruits of a singular and premonitory vision which sheds all its light on the beauty of its sites and on the exemplary and civic urbanity of its civil society, now comforted and reassured by the relevance of its choices and by the durability of the accumulated achievements throughout recent years.
It is in this perspective that we must understand the exceptional national and international impact and success of Bayt Dakira, a spiritual and heritage space for the preservation and enhancement of the Judeo-Moroccan memory, unique in its kind in the south of the Mediterranean. and in the land of Islam.
This House, which was honored by the visit of King Mohammed VI on January 15, 2020, receives more than 1,000 visitors per week, Moroccans and foreigners of all faiths, all ages and all generations.
An unprecedented performance that gives full meaning to the successful upgrade of the Medina of Essaouira, an unprecedented project in the process of being completed which is part of the Royal Plan for the restoration of the Medinas of Morocco.
The tourist operators of Essaouira aspire that this tourist dynamic initiated this year be accompanied by the increase in air links with Europe which were before Covid-19 of the order of around thirty direct flights weekly, despite the impressive flows and in permanent and substantial progression of national tourism as evidenced by the statistics of arrivals in the Cité des Alizés.
Similarly, tourist operators also aspire to provide Essaouira with a highway that connects it to the entire national highway network from Tangier.