French group to build $119 million tourism complex in Casablanc

The French hotels group Accor will build a $119 million tourism and trade center in the Moroccan economic and financial capital of Casablanca.

The center will be built in downtown Casablanca over 21,000 square meters, owned by four different institutions. A local commission was set up to supervise the cession of the plot before next December 25.

The Moroccan government will assist Accor in its endeavor to invest in the Moroccan tourism sector, ministers of the interior and of economy and finance, Driss Basri and Fathallah Oualalou told a meeting of the Casablanca municipalities personnel.

Accor which obtained recently the management of the large Jamai Palace of Fez, listed as a national historic monument, is running 12 tourism hotels in Morocco.