Tourism stakeholders in Marrakech angry

Tourist transport owners, taxi drivers, as well as restaurateurs and resort operators in Marrakech and the Al Haouz region, who pay VAT and taxes, are up in arms against the German reservation site Get Your Guide, whose services they criticize.

In Marrakech, tourist transport owners, taxi drivers, as well as restaurateurs and resort operators accuse the German reservation site Get Your Guide of “selling illusions to foreign tourists in foreign currency without paying taxes to the Kingdom. » They accuse the platform of violating commercial law by operating without a travel agency or booking coupon. They denounce the fact that reservations are made online directly from Europe via their site based in Berlin, Germany. Also, they criticized the fact that payment in Moroccan dirhams is prohibited. Only foreign bank cards are accepted, they specify.