Riad Accommodation Blog

Accommodation website Hotels.com has reported that holiday searches by people across the UK seeking sunshine holidays are 212 per cent for the last week in April, suggesting that people are intending to take advantage of the extra bank holiday.

For example, searches for trips to Spanish island of Tenerife were up 154 per cent while searches for Portuguese destinations were up 147 per cent compared to one year ago. The biggest increase in popularity was for Marrakech, a destination, which has built upon its 2010 searched by 235 percent.

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HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, visited Wednesday the ancient library of Al-Karaouine in Fes. Upon his arrival, Prince Charles was received by Regional Director of  Morocco‘s Culture Ministry in Fes and the curator of the Al Karaouine Library, before touring the various rooms of the facility, including the Assaadiyine dome where manuscripts are exhibited.

On this occasion, Prince Charles met four students at Al-Karaouine scientific chairs who will benefit from scholarships granted by the British government.
He also met Al-Karaouine’s Ulema (religious scholars) as well as the British cultural centre’s director in Morocco.
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PRINCE Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles will visit Spain on March 30 on their first official visit to the country since they married six years ago. The couple will visit Portugal, Spain and Morocco, from March 28 to April 6, although according to official sources, they will not visit Gibraltar.

Prince Charles visited Spain in 1987 with Lady Diana, and spent several days with the Spanish Royal Family at the Marivent Palace in Mallorca.

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First held in November 2005, the Arts in Marrakech (AiM) International Biennale is the first major trilingual (English, Arabic and French) festival in North Africa focusing on cutting-edge contemporary art, literature and film. The AiM International Biennale seeks to promote the status of the artist and contemporary culture in North Africa and to dynamize the regional creative scene, enabling discussions with and between artists. Held every two years, the AiM International Biennale promotes inter-cultural and inter-disciplinary exchanges through an educational approach that addresses art professionals, students and the general public.

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The Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles in morocco is a human adventure that is one of a kind. It is the only Rally Raid for women only. Since 1990, the event has been bringing together women between 18 and 65 years of age, from 33 different countries, in the Moroccan desert.

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To allow Morroccan people to discover or re-discover how the Sufi brotherhoods have mainly succeeded in preserving a message of universal spirituality that irrigated the whole of the Muslim culture and nourished its artistic, literary, and even social and economic forms of expression especially in Morocco.

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« Action behind the wheel, luxury each night » is the motto of the « Classic ». `Since its creation in 1993, we have spared no effort and our continued success suggests that we have got it right. The 2011 event will,we hope, live up to its predecessors.
It is true that few organisers have our unique advantages. Starting with the magic of Morocco, an idéal playground for lovers of old and modern sports and thoroughbred cars, those who enjoy on-road driving, thanks to the extraordinary variety of landscape and sites. The 2160-km journey of this 2011 event–divided into 7 legs and 19 regularity tests – will take the participants from Rabat to Marrakesh via Tangiers, Fes, Boumalne Dades (through the brand new raod of the Todra gorges), Ouarzazate and Marrakesh.) This event will go through the Kingdom capital, the Gibraltar detroit, then the Rif regions, Middle and High Atlas…

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The upcoming launch of the training project on active learning in science and technology in partnership Initiated by electronic banking centers in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania and West Africa, will be an opportunity to discuss different strategies and opportunities to expand the uses of smart cards in the region of North Africa, central and west.

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It is in an environment in marrakech that will show case the meeting which gathers 100 exhibitors on 3,000 square meters to present the latest developments in terms of products and materials, Moroccan handicrafts, furniture, paper, and many accessories, ranging from fixtures, linens, fabrics or tableware: the opportunity for professionals to explore industry trends and innovations in Moroccan handicrafts, decoration …
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