The Ministry of Tourism, Crafts and the Social and Solidarity Economy announced the launch, on Monday, of a call for expressions of interest to identify accommodation establishments (EHT) wishing to benefit from financial support from the State, with a total envelope of one billion dirhams, to help them quickly restart their activity. “On February 21, 2022, a call for expressions of interest (AMI) was launched to identify Tourist Accommodation Establishments wishing to benefit from financial support from the State in order to financially support them for a rapid restart of their activity. An amount of 1 billion has been reserved by the government for this support,” indicates the ministry in a press release received by MAP on Tuesday. The methodology and approach for implementing this measure of State financial support for EHTs were agreed in close consultation with the parties concerned, namely the Ministry of the Economy and Finance and professionals, the same source said. This support, which targets EHT classified within the meaning of the regulations in force, consists of the granting of a subsidy aimed at improving the quality of the offer and the quality of the services offered.
The subsidy is granted up to a maximum of 10% of the turnover (CA) achieved by the establishment concerned for the year 2019, capped at 10 million dirhams (MDH).
The management of this state support is entrusted to the Moroccan Society of Tourism Engineering (SMIT). EHTs can obtain the AMI file from the latter upon simple request sent to the address (support-eht@smit.gov.ma).
At the end of the local committees’ evaluations, the results obtained from the combination of several criteria will make it possible to classify the requests for support by region and for each category. The government has approved a major emergency plan amounting to two billion dirhams to support the recovery of the tourism sector impacted by the new coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic, recalls the ministry.
