Guides: planning your event in Marrakech

Before taking a team to Morocco for a team building event, the employer should check four things: each employee’s health cover on site, including assistance and repatriation; the fact that an accident during the programme will in principle be treated as a work accident; the authorisation, insurance and supervision of …

A CSR or charitable team building activity in Morocco makes sense when it buys at a fair price, funds, or brings skills to people who work there all year round, and much less sense when it organises a visit. The tax section of this article is for companies based in …

Yes, a team building event in Marrakech still works in summer, on one condition: move the activities around the day instead of cancelling them. From June to August, average highs range from 33.6 °C to 37.7 °C, above the 28 °C benchmark that France’s occupational safety institute, the INRS, uses for physical activity. …

A rally or treasure hunt in the Marrakech medina is the most accessible team building activity: it is done on foot, needs no particular fitness, and its cost per participant stays the same whether you are 30 or 100. Our costing model puts it, with shuttles included, at about €1,300 …

A hot air balloon flight in Marrakech for a company group takes up a whole morning: one long-established operator gives an average total duration of 4 h 30, including 40 to 60 minutes in the air, with hotel pick-up before sunrise. Depending on the month, the alarm therefore goes off between 4:00 …

Team building in the Agafay desert almost always follows the same pattern: leave Marrakech in the early afternoon, two hours of quad biking on the plateau, then dinner at the camp as night falls and a shuttle back to town. Sunset sets everything else: it comes at around 17:30 in …

For team building in Marrakech, the right venue is not just one that can house the group and has a meeting room: it is one where the activity can take place on site, or close by, without depending on the weather. Four criteria make the difference: a shaded outdoor area …

In Marrakech, five team building activities can be costed without surprises: a rally through the medina, a craft workshop, a Moroccan cooking class, quad biking in the Agafay desert and a hot air balloon flight. For 20 participants, with local shuttles included, allow roughly €800 to €1,400 for the craft …