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UMNYA Collection · Investors

Some places are not booked. They are owned.

We design, build and operate eco-hospitality in Morocco, and open the capital of each new project to a private circle of investors.

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What this is

One operator, one company per project.

Umnya runs retreats across the Sahara, the Atlas and the Atlantic coast. UMNYA Collection is the ownership side of the same house: eco-built, atypical hospitality assets in Morocco, designed, constructed and operated by our own team. Desert camps, lodges, a medina riad.

Each project lives in its own company, and investors take shares in the specific project they choose, never in a blended vehicle. Morocco first, where tourism sets records year after year.

Every address in the Collection is positioned as a bespoke experience, not a room to book: private groups, commissioned retreats, whole-property stays. That is what carries the rate, and it is already what we do.

Why Morocco, why now

The state is building the demand we will serve.

Morocco is not hoping for growth, it is financing it. The 2030 World Cup, co-hosted with Spain and Portugal, is being used as an accelerator for a tourism capacity plan already under way.

74%
Marrakech occupancy in 2026 · the highest of any Moroccan city
13.66M
overnight stays in Marrakech in 2025, a third of the national total
+60,000
hotel beds Morocco will add by 2030, taking capacity past 360,000
26M
visitors targeted by 2030, against 19.8M in 2025

Read the two figures together. Supply is set to grow by roughly a fifth; the visitor target implies demand growing by nearly a third. That spread, demand outpacing rooms, is the whole reason to build now rather than in 2029.

Sources: Moroccan Tourism Observatory · Ministry of Tourism (Fatim-Zahra Ammor, July 2026) · Medias24, Le Desk.

The Collection

Six addresses. One operator.

One camp we already run, and five we intend to build, 155 keys in total. Each opens on its own merits and in its own order. Agafay first, then the riad.

Erg Chigaga
Deep Sahara
8 keys
In operation
Agafay
30 min from Marrakech
20 keys
Open · late 2027
Riad Marrakech
Medina
20 keys
Next · 2029
Taghazout
Atlantic surf coast
45 keys
Studied · 2029
Essaouira
Windward coast
30 keys
Studied · 2029
Dakhla
Southern Atlantic lagoon
40 keys
Studied · 2030

Two further sites, the High Atlas and Oualidia, were studied and deliberately left out of the plan: collective forest land in one case, stacked environmental designations in the other. They carry no budget.

The proof
Capital closed · In operation

Umnya Dune Camp, Erg Chigaga.

Our camp in the erg was designed, financed and built by our own team, and it operates today. It has its own helipad: the erg is reachable by air, where the piste takes several hours by 4x4. It hosts the Umnya retreats sold in eight languages, and it set the standard the Collection extends: low-impact construction, small capacity, a high level of care.

It appears here for one reason, so you can judge the operator on something that already stands and runs, rather than on a rendering. It is a build-and-operate proof point, not a profit centre: its cost structure is oversized for eight tents, and its monthly accounts are open in the data room.

Project 01 · Open
Expressions of interest open

UMNYA Agafay.

Agafay desert · 30 minutes from Marrakech

An eco-designed desert camp on the stone plateau of Agafay, at the gates of Marrakech: a season that runs all year, an international airport 25 minutes away, and a city whose visitor numbers keep breaking records.

The land is held under a lease signed with the Ministry, automatically renewable, which expressly authorises twenty rooms, a restaurant, a pool, a spa and activities. The zone itself is closed: no new authorisation is being granted in Agafay. Because the ground is not titled, we build light on purpose, twenty demountable tented keys, opened in two phases of ten, with no permanent structure. The founder has already funded the well, the solar installation and the earthworks.

Total project budget
€917K
Still to finance
€822K
Investor dossier
On request
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Project 02 · Next
Site selection under way

Riad Marrakech, Medina.

Marrakech medina · 20 keys

Adjoining riads acquired and joined into a single house of twenty keys. Under Moroccan law a maison d'hôtes is capped at ten keys without a luxury category, while the riad and kasbah categories reach thirty and carry the high end, so twenty keys sits in the right wrapper.

It is the urban door of the Collection and the answer to seasonality: year-round demand, the highest occupancy floor of the portfolio, and the asset that is easiest to finance and to resell. The shortlist is in progress; the budget stays open until offers are documented.

Budget
Under study
Target opening
2029
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How it works

Three steps, nothing signed before you are ready.

01

You register your interest

A name and an email are enough. You are not committing to anything, you are asking to see the dossier.

02

You receive the dossier, privately

Structure, budget, operating plan and projected economics, sent to you directly, followed, if you wish, by a call with the founders.

03

You decide, in your own time

Any participation is concluded privately, project by project, within the applicable legal framework. No public offer, no countdown, no pressure.

What never changes

Four commitments, on every project.

Built lightly, on purpose

Low-impact construction, small capacities, sites chosen and shaped so the land could take them back. It is what our guests pay for, and what protects the asset.

One project, one company

You always know exactly what you own: shares in a single named asset with its own accounts, never a blend, never a fund.

Umnya operates · and invests

The team that built and runs the Dune Camp operates every Collection asset, and commits its own capital alongside yours.

A circle, not a crowd

The Collection is financed by a limited circle of private investors. Figures, terms and projections are never published on a page, they are discussed.

Who you would be backing

The team that already built one.

Anas El Hachimy
Founder and operator
From The Desert With Love SARL · Marrakech

He designed, financed and built the Umnya camp in Erg Chigaga, eight tented suites in the deep Sahara, and has run it since. Not a developer who commissions an operator: the same field team that raises the tents runs the season, and it is that team that will carry Agafay.

Expression of interest

Ask to see the Agafay dossier.

A few lines are enough. We reply personally within 48 hours.

Several possible. Only Agafay is open today; for the others we will come back to you when the time comes.

Your details reach the founders only. We keep them so we can come back to you when the projects you selected open, and for nothing else. No automation, no third parties. Ask us and we delete them.

This page is an invitation to express interest. It is not a public offer of financial securities, an investment recommendation, or financial advice. Detailed information is shared privately with a limited number of persons, and any investment is concluded within a private framework, in accordance with the regulations applicable in Morocco. Investing in unlisted projects carries risk, including the loss of the capital invested; the past or current performance of one asset is no guarantee of the performance of another.