Agadir International Conference-Forum: Adapting the tourism offer to climate change

Under the aegis of the Ministry of Tourism, the Rural Tourism Development Network of Southern Morocco (RDTR) and Ibn Zohr University organised an International Conference-Forum in Agadir on 8 and 9 June 2012, under the theme "Tourism and Climate Change in Morocco and the Mediterranean Region: A Global Challenge, Local Solutions".This conference-forum, whose opening ceremony was chaired by the Wali of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region, in the presence notably of the President of the Regional Council, the President of the Prefectural Council, and the MP-Mayor of the city, is part of a local desire to develop the search for solutions to the problem of tourism and climate change.After addressing this problem in two plenary sessions, the participants then worked in workshops: workshops 1A and 2A: Sustainable Tourism and Climate Change; workshop 1B: Adaptation of the tourism offer to climate change…