Mozambican tourism revenues reach more than US$85 million

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Mozambican tourism revenues reach more than US$85 million

2:15 CAT | 10 Dec 2015

Club of Mozambique

Receipts from tourism in Mozambique topped US$85 million in the first half of the year, during which time the country welcomed more than 834,000 foreign visitors.

According to Minister of Culture and Tourism, Silva Dunduro, speaking in Bilene, Gaza province, the sector had this year conducted many activities showcasing Mozambique’s tourism and cultural potential and attracting many tourists and businessmen to the country.

The country was represented at the Expo Milano and at the Venice Biennale in Italy, and has become a member of the World Tourism Organization, helping it to influence decision-making on tourism development policies.

The minister detailed how his department had held its third annual International Tourism Fair entitled “Descubra Moçambique” (Discover Mozambique), hosted the SADC’s Round Table of Ministers of Tourism, attended the Investment Tourism Conference and participated again in the “East 3 Route” project.

“These are some of our accomplishments this year. We must also assess in depth the challenges we face engaging in future opportunities,” Dunduro said.

The minister also alluded to the recent inauguration of the Matola Interpretation Centre, erected in honor of the victims of apartheid who perished during attacks by the South African army in Mozambique in the beginning of the 1980s.

Over the year, the culture and tourism ministry has provided industry professionals, other public entities, artists, cultural entrepreneurs and representatives of associations and cultural groups with the technical, professional and scientific means of developing their human and social potential.

It has also approved 89 projects valued at US$146 million, creating over a thousand new jobs, generating income and stimulating the activities of small local producers, and approved and funded 60 small cultural projects valued at five million meticais.

Addressing the matter of economic infrastructure, Dunduro said that this year, 23 new hotels, with a total capacity of 984 beds, had opened across the country. Three more hotel units were inaugurated under the project “Kapulana” umbrella in Guijá (Gaza), Mueda (Cabo Delgado) and Funhalouro (Inhambane), creating over 90 new jobs.

Source: Jornal Notícias