The current situation of the tourism sector in Ouarzazate and its constraints were at the centre of a meeting organised on Saturday evening in this city, with the participation notably of local officials and tourism operators. Speaking during this meeting, which comes within the framework of the implementation of the Communal Development Plan (PCD) of the Ouarzazate province, the president of the municipal council of this city stressed that the decentralised system leaves the way open for the search for mechanisms aimed at establishing clear strategies for the realisation of socio-economic development at the local level. He recalled, in this sense, that the municipal council of Ouarzazate has developed a PCD for the 2010-2016 period following a participatory approach, noting that 63 projects, linked directly or indirectly to the tourism sector, are programmed within the framework of this plan. He specified that 51 of the total programmed projects have been completed or are in the process of being completed thanks to a budget of 208 million DH. For his part, the president of the provincial tourism council stressed that the tourism sector suffers from several constraints linked notably to deficiencies in terms of entertainment, organisational dysfunctions, and the weakness of investments in this sector. He called for the combining of efforts of professionals and local authorities in order to find adequate solutions to the problems of the sector and to be able to achieve the objectives set in this field. The director of the CPT of Ouarzazate emphasised the importance of the convergence between the efforts deployed by the various actors concerned with a view to meeting the challenges faced by the region in the sectors of tourism and film production, the two main locomotives of the local economy.