Agafay Luxury Desert CampPrivate camp 40 minutes from the city. Exclusive-use dinner, fire pit and stargazing — the standard gala option for groups.
Abstract handling, registration, sponsor and exhibitor fulfilment, and on-site delivery for medical, scientific and association congresses in Marrakech — run by a licensed Moroccan operator, at net rates.
A congress is a slow machine. Bidding, abstracts, accreditation, registration, sponsorship, then four days where everything happens at once — often eighteen months apart, with a different chair each time. Most of what goes wrong in edition three is something edition two already learned and then forgot when the committee rotated.
We hold that knowledge instead: which session room has the difficult acoustics, which hotel releases its block late, how long the shuttle actually takes at eight in the morning rather than on the map. Your scientific committee keeps its attention on the science, and the operational file carries forward. Delegate transfers and hotels are run by our DMC Marrakech operations desk.
Contracted and delivered through one desk in Marrakech.
Abstracts and scientific programme
Submission intake, blind allocation to reviewers, scoring, acceptance notices and the final programme export. Reviewers are chased by the system on a schedule, not by your secretary at midnight.
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Registration and badging
Delegate categories that reflect how your membership is actually structured — member, non-member, trainee, accompanying, day rate — with on-site badge printing and a desk that clears an arrival queue.
Sponsor and exhibitor programme
A prospectus with tiers that sell, floor plans that make the good stands obvious, and a fulfilment checklist so nothing promised in March is forgotten in November.
Accreditation support
Learning objectives, faculty declarations, attendance capture and certificate issue, assembled as the file the accrediting body expects.
Delegate logistics
RAK arrivals, multi-hotel allocation, shuttle loops timed to the session grid, hospitality desks and rooming lists.
On-site delivery
Session stewards, technical liaison, speaker preview, signage and a coordinator who knows which room has the temperamental microphone.
Social programme
Welcome reception, gala dinner and accompanying-persons tours — in riads, Palmeraie estates or an Agafay camp, contracted directly.
Bid support
Destination case, venue holds, costed budgets and letters of support when you are still competing for the congress.
Every component of a congress, handled under one agreement.
Planned in stages against fixed academic and commercial deadlines. This is the arc we work back from.
Bid & venue selection
Destination bid documents, venue capacity letters and budget modelling for the board or general assembly vote.
Registration opens
Platform live with early-bird tiers and the delegate category structure locked to your membership.
Abstract submission window
Submission opens and blind peer review runs against your scientific committee's own timeline and scoring rubric.
Sponsor & exhibitor sales
Prospectus in market, booth allocation begins, and fulfilment obligations tracked against each signed contract.
Final programme & badging
Abstract book compiled, accreditation documentation submitted, badges and access control finalised.
On-site delivery
Registration desk, session-room management and real-time problem-solving across every day of the congress.
Reconciliation & reporting
Financial reconciliation, sponsor fulfilment report, and the delegate survey your committee needs for the next bid.
Handover to the next edition
Lessons-learned review and a written knowledge file, so the incoming committee starts from this congress rather than from nothing.
Marrakech Menara takes direct flights from most European hubs in under four hours, which keeps delegate travel time — and the travel budget line — low for a European or North African association. The congress centre and the Hivernage hotel cluster sit within walking distance of each other, so parallel sessions do not depend on coaches.
The argument that wins a vote, though, is usually the social programme. A gala in a Palmeraie estate or under canvas in Agafay is something a delegate remembers and tells a colleague about, and attendance at the next edition is partly built on that.
The social programme, accompanying-guest excursions and post-congress tours that sit around the scientific schedule — all run by our own ground team.
Agafay Luxury Desert CampPrivate camp 40 minutes from the city. Exclusive-use dinner, fire pit and stargazing — the standard gala option for groups.
Chez Ali Fantasia DinnerHorsemanship, music and a seated dinner in caidal tents. Absorbs large numbers without losing the spectacle.
Medina Half-Day TourBahia Palace, the Saadian Tombs and the souks with a licensed local guide. The orientation half-day most programmes open with.
Agafay Desert Day TripStone desert, camel ride and sunset dinner without the long drive south. The highest-impact single day out of Marrakech.
3-Day Merzouga Sahara TourTizi n'Tichka, the Dades gorges and a night in the Erg Chebbi dunes. The pre- and post-event extension asked for most.
Traditional Hammam & MassageSteam, black soap and argan massage in a proper hammam. The recovery slot after a long travel day or a late gala.
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Every item runs for split groups and staggered departures. Capacities and coach plans supplied with the quote.
Scientific committees and association organisers who have run a congress edition in Morocco with our PCO team.
Committees and procurement ask for this before a congress file is signed off — licence, office and who actually runs the ground operation.
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Anything not covered here, ask the ops desk directly on WhatsApp.
Either. If your society already licences a submission system we work inside it and take on the administration. If you do not have one, we set up and run the submission, blind-review and scoring workflow, then hand you a clean export for the programme book at the end.
Yes. We assemble the documentation the accrediting body asks for — session-level learning objectives, faculty declarations, attendance capture and post-event certificates — and keep the evidence trail intact. We prepare the file; the accreditation decision stays with the awarding body.
The institutional memory sits with us rather than with a rotating committee. Supplier contacts, floor plans, rooming patterns, what ran late last time and why — all of it is documented and handed to the incoming chair, so each edition starts from the last one rather than from a blank page.
Yes, and this is worth starting early. We prepare the destination case: venue holds, hotel capacity by star band, indicative costed budgets, letters of support and airlift evidence. If the bid goes elsewhere you owe nothing for the bid work itself.
The Palais des Congrès handles plenary formats in the high hundreds, and Hivernage hotel venues cover parallel sessions from twenty upward. Above roughly two hundred residential delegates we move to multi-hotel allocation with shuttle loops timed to the session grid.
We quote a management fee against a defined scope, plus line-itemised ground costs at net rates. The two are separated on purpose, so your treasurer can see what is our fee and what is pass-through supplier cost, and so registration income can be modelled against it honestly.
Delegate estimate, target dates and whether the destination is confirmed or still being bid. That is enough to start.
Trade only. A costed programme back within 24 hours.
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