Luxury and travel magazine Conde Nast Traveller has listed Morocco’s Fairmont Taghazout Bay hotel, 20 kilometers from Agadir, on its “Hot List 2022” of the best new hotel openings worldwide.

Morocco’s Fairmont Taghazout Bay Among Best New Hotels Worldwide

Rabat – Luxury and travel magazine Conde Nast Traveller has listed Morocco’s Fairmont Taghazout Bay hotel, 20 kilometers from Agadir, on its “Hot List 2022” of the best new hotel openings worldwide.

This year, the “Hot List” includes 96 new hotels worldwide. The entire list also includes the best restaurants, bars, museums, cruises, destinations, and transportation.

Fairmont Taghazout Bay is the only Moroccan hotel that features on Conde Nas Travelers’ “hot list,” with the Moroccan resort coming third in Africa after Botswana’s wilderness safaris DumaTau camp and Kenya’s Eden Nairobi.

Mozambique’s Sussurro comes in fourth place in the continent, followed by Mango House Seychelles, LXR Hotels and Resorts in Seychelles, and Sterrekopje Farm in South Africa.

Inaugurated in 202, the luxury five-stars resort is located in the heart of the resort Taghazout Bay. Taghazout Bay offers 146 rooms, suites, and villas overlooking the Atlantic ocean, with several leisure facilities that combine Moroccan and modern fabrics.

“One of the first luxury resorts to debut in the windswept fishing village of Taghazout, this beachfront property deftly melds the Fairmont’s stalwart service and amenities galore with a distinctly laid-back vibe,” Conde Nast quoted travel and lifestyle writer Alexandra Kirkman as saying.

Kirkman highlighted that the hotel’s interiors are filled with “locally sourced fabrics and bold accents of inky Moroccan blue, while floor-to ceiling windows afford views of the surfers (and occasionally a sauntering camel) on the beach.”

Tourism in Morocco has suffered colossal losses as a result of border closures and other strict measures the country has taken since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But as Morocco began to relax its COVID measures and finally lifted its travel ban on February 7, more than two million passengers traveled to Morocco between February and March.

With the number of visitors averaging 12 million every year, Morocco is also Africa’s second-most visited country after Egypt.