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Tourism: Morocco and Ecuador aim for training cooperation

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During talks in Rabat, Moroccan Tourism Minister Jalal Charaf and Ecuadorian Minister Roberto Carlos Kury Pesantes highlighted vocational training and the promotion of traveller flows. According to Maroc Diplomatique, the Ecuadorian minister also said his visit aims to promote investment, trade and tourism.

Morocco and Ecuador want to develop their tourism cooperation, particularly in vocational training, according to Moroccan Minister of Tourism, Crafts and the Social and Solidarity Economy, Jalal Charaf. The two countries discussed this subject during talks held on Monday 9 November 2026 in Rabat, which also covered the sharing of expertise and the promotion of traveller flows between the two destinations, according to MAP.

Ecuador’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Roberto Carlos Kury Pesantes, said his visit aims to promote investment, trade and tourism. He invited Moroccans to discover what Ecuador has to offer. Jalal Charaf announced that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) is being prepared, with signature expected soon between the governments of the two countries.

These exchanges follow the signing, the same day, of an agreement waiving visas for ordinary passports between the two countries.

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