Tariq Kabbage, Mayor and MP of Agadir and President of the AMEV: "Idaoutanane holds potential for the development of sustainable tourism"

During the opening session of the conference-forumtourism and climatechange, Tariq Kabbage spoke in his capacity as Mayor of Agadir, MPof Agadir-Idaoutananeand President of the Moroccan Association of Eco-Cities (AMEV). Here is the full text of this important speech."I would like to thank the Rural Tourism Development Network for organising this event on 'Tourism and Climate Change'.Climate change is one of the issues that challenge the citizens of the world: What future for future generations? Will we have the intelligence to find solutions to the distressing questions of this millennium?I am returning from a brief trip to France where I attended the screening of a film entitled "One Planet, One Civilisation, the Present and the Future". This film shows that under all climates, whether equatorial, semi-arid, mountainous, monsoon, oceanic, or polar, profound changes are taking place and…