{"id":1975,"date":"2021-02-11T02:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=27046"},"modified":"2021-03-16T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:23:26","slug":"unwto-official-visit-to-morocco-initiates-preparations-for-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/unwto-official-visit-to-morocco-initiates-preparations-for-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"UNWTO Official Visit to Morocco Initiates Preparations for General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/un-world-tourism-organization-news\/unwto-official-visit-to-morocco-initiates-preparations-for-general-assembly\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"UNWTO-Nadia Fettah Alaoui-Official Visit to Morocco Initiates Preparations for General Assembly\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/UNWTO-Nadia-Fettah-Alaoui-Official-Visit-to-Morocco-Initiates-Preparations-for-General-Assembly-500x304.jpg\" alt=\"UNWTO Official Visit to Morocco Initiates Preparations for General Assembly\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p class=\"p_brief\">Rabat, Morocco, February 9, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Kingdom of Morocco met to advance the organization of the <strong>24<sup>th<\/sup> UNWTO General Assembly<\/strong> in October 2021, the <strong>first global high-level United Nations event to be held since the beginning of the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022<a style=\"color: #096b27;font-weight: 600\" href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/category\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/un-world-tourism-organization-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Read all the latest UNWTO News and Announcements here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Led by the Secretary-General, Zurab Pololikashvili, a delegation from UNWTO has concluded an official visit to Morocco to discuss the programme, calendar and facilities to be prepared for this statutory meeting that will focus on <strong>Education and Youth, Rural Development and Digital Innovation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p_quote\">Tourism is adapting to the new reality and we face the future with optimism and with the backing of our Members<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Tourism of Morocco, Nadia Fettah Alaoui, and her team accompanied the delegation during this three-day visit and expressed their commitment to organizing an \u201chistoric\u201d General Assembly to showcase the importance of restarting international tourism in a safe and more sustainable way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Prime Minister of Morocco, <\/strong>Saadeddine Othmani and the <strong>Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita<\/strong> welcomed the UNWTO Secretary-General in Rabat highlighting the importance of the celebration and the high-level support of the host country. The delegation was also received by the <strong>Governor of Marrakesh-Safi region,<\/strong> Karim Kassi Lahlou, and other local authorities and representatives of the private sector of the area that will be strongly involved in the preparations for this meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<a style=\"color: #096b27;font-weight: 600\" href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/category\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/un-world-tourism-organization-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Read all the latest UNWTO News and Announcements here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Secretary-General Pololikashvili thanked the Prime Minister and his government for their \u201chard work\u201d to ensure that the Assembly will be a success on the back of the unprecedented crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. He said: \u201c<strong>Tourism is adapting to the new reality<\/strong> and we <strong>face the future with optimism<\/strong> and with the backing of our Members.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabat, Morocco, February 9, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Kingdom of Morocco met to advance the organization of the 24th UNWTO General Assembly in October 2021, the first global high-level United Nations event to be held since the beginning of the pandemic. \u2022 Read all the latest UNWTO News &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}