Government enters event management market in Mozambique

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Government enters event management market in Mozambique

1:08 CAT | 06 Mar 2020

Photo: A Verdade

In a bid to create three million jobs, after the failed 1.5 million in the past quinquenium, the government is to enter the event organisation sector, one of the country’s most thriving markets, albeit one cannibalised by the private sector which dominates it, @Verdade reports.

One of the three priority activities of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism during President Filipe Nyusi’s first 100 days of governance is the creation of the Convention and Events Agency ( Agência de Convenções e Eventos/MICE).

The government believes that this new institution will create new jobs and further promote business and events tourism, particularly in Maputo.

The strategy of the new state agency is not known, but the truth is that, with it, the government will compete directly with the private sector, which during the last decade has developed a small industry which starts with the rental of spaces and marquees, and passes thence on to the ornamentation and catering services which, among others, employ thousands of Mozambicans, albeit in a precarious way.

Actually, if the National Inspection of Economic Activities (INAE) started paying visits to all the places where salty and sweet food is prepared, many families would be without a livelihood.

Turismo-evento — *File photo: A Verdade*

By April, the department headed by Eldevina Materula will also have to have set up the new National Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, which, centred in Maputo, will have the task of stimulating the circulation and commercialisation of cultural products, producing statistical data on cultural and creative industries, mapping the companies operating in the field, encouraging the emergence of new companies and improving the collection of revenue from the creative sector.

By Adérito Caldeira

Source: A Verdade