French group Accor has opened the world's first ibis budget hotel in the port of Tangier, northern Morocco.
Formally an Etap, the 121-room ibis budget Tangier is the first of 518 Etap/Formule 1 hotels across 17 countries to be converted to the new ibis budget brand.
Three more are expected to open in December: the ibis budget Grenoble Sud Seyssins, in France; the ibis budget Leysin, in Switzerland; and the ibis budget Bonn Süd Königswinter, in Germany.
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