Hamid Bentahar was elected new president of the National Confederation of Tourism (CNT), on Saturday in Marrakech, at the end of the elective ordinary General Assembly. Embodying novelty, creativity and the future, the Hamid Bentahar-Hicham Mhammedi Alaoui pair, who succeeds Abdellatif Kabbaj-Fouzi Zemrani, thus won the electoral campaign for the presidency of the Confederation with 139 votes out of 142.

“It is with great emotion that I assume today this position of president of our National Confederation of Tourism, our home to all and I understand all the responsibility that this implies in this unprecedented economic context”, said Bentahar in his speech on this occasion. Bentahar is also President of the Regional Tourism Council of Marrakech-Safi and CEO of the Accor Gestion Maroc group.