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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

‘I know I’m lucky to be alive’: Morocco travel insider says country will rebuild tourism in wake of earthquake

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The British man who has done more than anyone else to build tourism in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains says he is “lucky to be alive” after he was caught up in Friday’s catastrophic earthquake.

But some students attending the schools in the area he helped to establish have died.

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