The Moroccan authorities in Rabat have chosen Maspalomas as the starting point in the Canary Islands for the new culinary diplomacy agenda with the aim of launching a message of cooperation between the service sector of both markets. In this way, the processes of cultural rapprochement through gastronomy are first started with the support of the support entity Asociación Sociocultural El Atlas.
The first event of Morocco's new Canary Islands agenda in the Canary Islands was the Maspalomas Tourism Forum. The new Moroccan consul in the Canary Islands, Fatiha El Kamouri, who is also a jurist specialized in International Law and a doctorate in Legal Sciences from the Mohamed V University of Rabat, comes from the management of the Moroccan consulate in Bilbao and political advisor to the Embassy of Morocco in Madrid in addition to occupying positions of technical responsibility in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of his country. After her official incorporation in December in her position in Las Palmas, she has chosen to concentrate the first agenda of Morocco's reinforcement on the islands in Maspalomas.
The mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Concepción Narváez, stated in 2023 that "the environment of Maspalomas is appropriate, where the marriage between two geographically close towns, but even more so from the feeling of friendship, will merge to present and exhibit the best of himself." The Culinary Diplomacy Festival 'Gastronomic Morocco' takes place in the south of Gran Canaria with the presence of the best Moroccan chefs in the world who work in large hotels and high-quality restaurants.
