After completing his academic path and training in major hotel and tourism brands, Al-Dahi preferred the people of Al-Khattat (a businessman) to return to his city in Dakhla (southern Morocco), and to invest in tourism, specifically related to the region's heritage and culture.

Al-Dahi, who is currently the Secretary-General of the Regional Council for Tourism in Dakhla, says that the “Dakhla Region, the Valley of Gold,” has enormous potentials and many opportunities, which allow it to be an attraction for investments across the world and a locomotive for economic development.

Morocco's gateway to Africa

Dakhla is called the Pearl of the South, and is considered the gateway to Morocco on Africa.

It attracted the interest of lovers of sand and dunes, lovers of the sea and recreation, and formed a meeting place for thought, cinema and business.

And after America decided to open a consulate, it made headlines and was placed on the projects and work schedules;

To focus on the question, what is its potential?

And its strengths and projection for the future?

The Dakhla region is the Valley of Gold, in the far south of Morocco, on the border with Mauritania.

This location, in addition to its proximity to the Canary Islands, entitles it to play the role of an open pole between Africa and Europe. Dakhla is considered its capital, and it is also its largest city.

Dakhla is a peninsula with a desert nature bordered by 3 Atlantic coasts, with a warm climate, and more than 300 sunny days a year.

Since 2014, the city has been ranked the best place in the world for windsurfing and surfing.

Dakhla Bay, with its warm turquoise waters and lakes, is home to migratory birds, pink flamingos, turtles, humpback dolphins, and more.

Significant economic potential

The "region" extends over an area of ​​142,865 square kilometers.

That is, 20% of the area of ​​Moroccan territory, and its population is 143 thousand people, according to the general census of "housing and housing" for the year 2014.

It has various natural qualifications represented in the desert, oases, archaeological sites, and a coast that offers a diverse tourism offer, extending along 667 kilometers on the Atlantic Ocean, which is a marine resource that makes the marine fishing sector an essential sector that affects other activities associated with it from aquaculture, manufacturing and trade.

Dakhla has a long sea coast and fisheries (websites)

During 2018, it recorded a gross domestic product per capita of 85,669 dirhams ($ 8,600), which is higher than the national average (31,473 dirhams, or about $ 3,200), and it represents about 3.5% of the GDP growth.

The contribution of primary sector activities (agriculture and fishing) in the “Dakhla Region and the Valley of Gold” to the region’s GDP was 28%.

Special development program

And Morocco had formulated a development program for the southern regions extending from 2016 to 2021, which includes programs contracts for the completion of more than 700 projects, for which a total initial financial envelope was allocated, estimated at 77 billion dirhams, before it was later raised to 85 billion (more than 9 billion dollars). Its completion is 70%.

The program is concerned with developing the necessary infrastructure and facilities, such as the Atlantic Port project in Dakhla, the desalination project and its supply to irrigate 5,000 hectares in the north of the city of Dakhla, in addition to new wind power plants in a number of southern regions.

A future economic center

Al-Dahi, the people of Al-Khattat, said - in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net - that the region’s qualifications were limited to exploitation, explaining that coastal and cultural tourism, the fishing sector, the development of agricultural and industrial activities and the possibility of developing clean energies could form the basis of the region’s economic attractiveness, and an improvement in the business climate in the “Dakhla” area. ;

Which qualifies it to become a future economic center, as expected.

Al-Dahi, the people of calligraphy, introduces the desert culture through tourism offers (websites)

Al-Dahi expected that the US move to open the consulate would contribute to the actors benefiting from trade relations, and opening the American market to local products.

On the future of the region and the economic impact, Professor of International Relations Khaled Al-Shayat believes that the mechanism of agreement represented by the opening of a consulate with economic tasks increases confidence in the Moroccan model and the Moroccan development vision in the region.

Al-Shiat expected that the region would develop to the first financial center in Africa and as an export platform, and Al-Shiat pointed to the geopolitical importance and investment structure directed towards the south, as well as creating a new line through Mauritania and Senegal, which is expected to result in an integrated civilizational space in the region.

In a related context, Khattat Yinga, Chairman of the Dakhla Region and the Valley of Gold, said that the decision of the United States of America to open a consulate in Dakhla is support for the development path in the southern regions in general, and the region in particular.

Yinga clarified - after a meeting held by the Minister of the Interior with the heads of the regions devoted to tracking the advanced regionalization project - that "Dakhla" will have major structural projects such as the Atlantic Port and the National Road, which passes through the Guerguerat crossing;

This will make the party play a very important role in promoting trade exchange between the North and the South.