El patrimonio geológico de Marruecos: una potencialidad para el desarrollo de un turismo de salud, como factor de lucha contra la pobreza

The whole Moroccan territory conceals a rich essentially thermal and mineral geological heritage. The exploitation of this national heritage to therapeutic ends can play an important economic and social role by the generation of jobs, especially in the arid and of the Sahara zones that endure the drought, the desertification and the emigration of the farming youngsters. It is in the setting of the call of the Chief of Staff of the united Nations inviting, in the declaration of the Millennium, the nations to contribute important way to the struggle against poverty and the extreme poverty, that we proposed, for these resource less surroundings, the tourism of health like an alternative of development associating the struggle against poverty and the lasting tourism. Our article also appears in the setting of the National Initiative for the Human Development (NIHD), placing the Moroccan citizen as finality of the develop-ment strategies and first factor and strength of this development