{"id":258457,"date":"2019-09-27T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=258457"},"modified":"2019-09-27T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:33:20","slug":"royal-air-maroc-adding-sao-paulo-casablanca-frequency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/royal-air-maroc-adding-sao-paulo-casablanca-frequency\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Air Maroc adding S\u00e3o Paulo-Casablanca frequency"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Royal Air Maroc, the Moroccan airline<\/a>, is adding a frequency from S\u00e3o Paulo to Casablanca next December or January. This will bring weekly S\u00e3o Paulo-Morocco flights to four, plus two leaving from Rio de Janeiro, making up a total of six Brazil-Morocco frequencies a week.<\/p>\n

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Alruiz, sales manager with Royal Air Maroc<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The airline also entered into an agreement with One World \u2013 one of the biggest global alliances, comprising Latam, Qatar Airways, American Airlines and others. The deal is expected to become effective by the end of H1 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have signed it, but now we must integrate the systems, the mileage, the data\u2026 It takes time, but by June, everything will probably be connected,\u201d Royal Air Maroc sales manager told ANBA during Abav Expo, a travel industry show taking place until Friday (27) at Expo Center Norte, in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

Alruiz said the alliance will add connectivity to stopovers in Brazil and across Latin America. \u201cThe company will certainly grow a lot. Clients will get the ease of checking in two 23-kg luggage items and carry one 10-kg handheld item, since the connection flight. For instance, it they depart from Porto Alegre (RS) to take the flight in S\u00e3o Paulo, the luggage will be included in the final, one-off ticket price. That will cut costs for passengers,\u201d he said. The S\u00e3o Paulo-Casablanca flight takes about eight hours.<\/p>\n

Morocco<\/strong><\/p>\n

Besides Royal Air Maroc, Morocco\u2019s stand (pictured above<\/em>), the highlight of Abav Expo, featured 11 Moroccan tour operators and the Casablanca Regional Travel Agencies Association, comprising 15 operators. \u201cWe wish to increase stand size and bring even more companies next year,\u201d said Abdellatif Achachi, director-general of Morocco\u2019s Official Tourism Delegation to Brazil and Portugal. \u201cIn 2018, we exceeded 53,000 arrivals of Brazilians in Morocco, a 19% increase from 2017,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Achachi at Morocco’s stand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2011, according to Achachi, there were only 12,000 arrivals. \u201cWe nearly quintupled Brazilian tourist numbers in these seven years,\u201d he said. This year, however, the director pointed out an obstacle to growth. \u201cThe crisis in Brazil meant less tourism to all destinations, including Morocco, because the dollar and the euro have gained so much. We\u2019ll be glad to see 1% this year,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n

The director said he has a target of seeing Brazilian tourism to Morocco increase by 15% a year. \u201cFor the coming years, the target still stands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Apart from the fair, a B2B event was held on the 24th<\/sup>, with 22 Brazilian and 27 Moroccan operators, to further cement Morocco\u2019s position as a destination for the Brazilian industry. \u201cIt was a total success. We\u2019d never had an event like this before. Now, with the B2B and the fair, we\u2019re striking up partnerships for next year,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n

For Achachi, the fair is a great opportunity for Moroccan operators to do business. \u201cThe stand is above all a business platform for the operators, to help bring in Brazilian tourists and to do more business. That\u2019s our main goal,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

Tunisia<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tunisia’s stand at Abav Expo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For its first time at Abav Expo, Tunisia participated with an institutional stand of tourism office in Brazil, as well as three Tunisian tourism agencies and a hotel. The charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires with the Embassy of Tunisia, Mohamed Amin Sayeb, told ANBA that tourism have a prominent place in the country\u2019s development policy. \u201cLast year was the best one out of the last ten years for tourism in Tunisia, at over 8 million tourists, up 17% from 2017. The country’s population is 11 million people for you to have an idea, and tourism accounts for 7% of the GDP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sayeb and Anissa Ramoundi, Tunis Tourism regional director, listed some of the country\u2019s main attractions, such as beaches; the Sahara desert; Chott el Jerid salt lake; Star Wars film sets in Ong el Jemel, Kairouan mosque, Africa\u2019s largest and oldest mosques; the cities of Cartago and Dougga, UNESCO World Heritage Sites; Djerba island and La Ghriba synagogue, which receives Jewish pilgrimages every May; thalassotherapy, that is, the use of seawater as a form of therapy; and others. \u201cWe are Maghreb\u2019s smallest country, but don\u2019t be fooled by our size. Ours is a tiny but great country,\u201d said Sayeb.<\/p>\n

One of the agencies at the stand is Gold Experiences<\/a>, which is based in S\u00e3o Paulo and has an office in Tunis. The company\u2019s founder and CEO Slim Fsili told ANBA that the agency specializes in luxury tourism with land-based packages ranging from USD 2,000 to USD 4,000 including hotels, shuttles, food and tours. \u201cWe work with hotels such as Anantara Tozeur, which opened earlier this year, La Badira Hammamet and Four Seasons Tunis, and we want to put Tunisia on the luxury tourism map, as we have everything: a wine route, desert, history, culture, and beaches,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Sayeb (R) at the Tunisia stand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tunisian agency Up to Go Travel<\/a> director general Obbaia Ahmed came to Brazil for the first time to participate in the show. \u201cWe want to foster this market. I came here to learn how Brazilian tourism works and understand our potential target audience here and help taking more Brazilians to Tunisia,\u201d he said. \u201cOur country is small but is greatly location, it\u2019s easy to get there. There\u2019s no direct flight, but from Rome it\u2019s a 50-minute flight, from Casablanca a 2-hour flight, and there are many airlines that serve us,\u201d Ahmed said, mentioning Tunis Air, Royal Air Maroc, Air France, Alitalia, Air Europa, Turkish, Lufthansa, Emirates, Qatar, and others.<\/p>\n

Silver Tours<\/strong><\/p>\n

A small stand in the show belongs to Silver Tours<\/a>, an Egyptian tourism agency that specializes in destinations such as Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Morocco, Turkey, and Palestine. \u201cWe work on several markets and we are in Brazil to foster this one that is already a market but we expect it to grow, despite the dollar hike,\u201d said the company\u2019s sales director sales director Mohamed Mousa.<\/p>\n

Quick facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abav International Tourism Expo 2019
\nSeptember 25 to 27, from noon to 8 pm
\nExpo Center Norte
\nRua Jos\u00e9 Bernardo Pinto, 333
\nVila Guilherme, S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 SP
\nhttp:\/\/www.abavexpo.com.br\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum & Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

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