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Churchill’s visit – empire travel

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Introduction Travelling to Morocco in the 1930s would have been pioneering. The French spent the 1920s developing tourism infrastructure and promoting tourism to its colonies (more on ’empire tourism’ in a future blog). Travel to French Morocco by Europeans was for the privileged few, not the masses. It seems fitting…

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Desert sunset in Morocco - Erg Chigaga great dunes

Championing Morocco’s Green Credentials

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Morocco will be centre-stage from 7 November, when it hosts the next UN climate change conference in Marrakech (COP 22). We should be applauding Morocco's green credentials and hopefully these will come to prominence at the COP 22 in Marrakech. Climate-conscious Morocco is a climate-conscious country (more on plastic below)...
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Carpet souk in Morocco - Wild Morocco tours

Pricing in Morocco (or bargain-hunting)

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Morocco is an African nation. You may be wondering - surely it's a cheap destination; it stands to reason that we'll find low prices for everything? If we don't, then presumably we can simply negotiate the price? Unfortunately this is not the case. Expect pricing in Morocco at around the...
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