Presidents of Mozambique and Portugal inaugurate luxury resort in Maputo Nature Reserve

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Presidents of Mozambique and Portugal inaugurate luxury resort in Maputo Nature Reserve

3:09 CAT | 18 Mar 2022

Photo: Lusa

The US$10 million Montebelo Milibangalala Bay Resort results from a partnership between the Montebelo Hotels & Resorts chain, Grupo Visabeira, and the Mozambican state.

The President of the Republic of Mozambique, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, together with the visiting President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, today inaugurated the landmark Montebelo Milibangalala Bay Resort development in Maputo National Park.

Resulting from a partnership between the Montebelo Hotels & Resorts chain, a Grupo Visabeira company, and the Mozambican state, the Montebelo Milibangalala Bay Resort aims to be a reference not only for the tourist scene in Mozambique, but for the whole of Southern Africa.

During the opening ceremony, Fernando Daniel Nunes, director of Grupo Visabeira – a holding company with a multinational presence and a turnover of US$1.4 billion in 2021 – highlighted the economic importance of the new resort in the Montebelo Hotels & Resorts portfolio. Not only for the direct investment of US$10 million dollars, but also to leverage the tourism sector in Mozambique and capitalise on its direct and indirect benefits for the country.

“The tourism sector, in addition to adding value to local attributes – natural, cultural and social – promotes the generation of employment and income distribution, as well as the creation of new businesses and the increase in the production of goods and services, stimulating entrepreneurship and the development of communities. Now, with the Montebelo Milibangalala Bay Resort, an investment with multiplier effects, Mozambique is better prepared for the resumption of tourist activity expected this year,” Nunes declared.

In its first phase, Montebelo Milibangalala has available 20 villas of types T0 to T1, T2 and T2+2, served by a restaurant serving Mozambican and international cuisine, a bar, a lounge, a swimming pool and meeting facilities. The excellent offering has, as Fernando Daniel Nunes highlighted, “the Clean & Safe Seal certification, awarded by INATUR, which certifies compliance with health protocols, validated by the competent authorities, in the context of the fight against Covid 19”.

The resort’s comprehensive project includes three lines of accommodation: the Earth, Sea and Sky paths, each representing the habitats of the three large groups of animals that inhabit the 104,000 hectares of Maputo National Park.

Taking advantage of its privileged location, the Montebelo Milibangalala Bay Resort intends to offer tourists, through various programs, close contact with the surrounding habitat and its primordial elements: the fertile land and fauna and flora of Africa and the warm and pristine beaches of the Indian Ocean, with Milibangalala beach at their feet.

Montebellomnp — *Photo: Visabeira – Montebelo Milibangalala*

Montb.b — *Photo: Visabeira – Montebelo Milibangalala*

About Grupo Visabeira in Mozambique

Grupo Visabeira, present in Mozambique since the late 1980s, is a multinational company founded 42 years ago in the city of Viseu, where it still has its headquarters. Today, the Group develops its business in Mozambique in several areas of activity, from Telecommunications, Energy and Construction, to Industry and Tourism.

Grupo Visabeira has companies in 18 countries, in addition to Portugal and Mozambique, namely in Angola, S. Tomé and Príncipe, Morocco, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Denmark, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Republic of Ireland, India, Brazil, Mexico and the United States of America, and is present with its products and services in more than 120 nations on four continents.

Operating in several countries, either autonomously or in partnership with important global operators, Visabeira Global aggregates the areas of Telecommunications, Energy, Technology and Construction, and its subsidiary Constructel Visabeira is today one of the largest providers of network engineering services in the telecommunications, electricity and gas in Europe.

In Mozambique, and in the various sectors of economic activity in which Grupo Visabeira is present, in the area of engineering and infrastructure of telecommunications networks, TVCABO Mozambique, a partnership with the national historic operator: TMCEL, plays a particularly important role. TVCABO Mozambique is a pioneer company on the African continent, one of the first in the world and a leader in Mozambique, assuming technological innovation and the quality of its services as distinctive characteristics. Also in the field of telecommunications, Televisa is a company that works with different operators and has been reinforcing its leading position in the expansion of the fibre optic network and in the 4G coverage project, which continues to be implemented throughout the territory.

The energy sector is another important area of Grupo Visabeira’s activity in Mozambique, and Eletroctec deserves mention for the plethora of skills and capabilities with which it operates in electricity infrastructure throughout the entire Mozambican territory.

In the construction area, Sogitel and Edivisa are leading companies, operating in the real estate sector and in the execution of civil construction and infrastructure contracts.

In trade and services, Mercury, a trading company dedicated to the import and sale of a wide range of goods, is particularly relevant, including products from Grupo Visabeira, such as Vista Alegre, one of the world’s leading producers of premium porcelain and crystal, distinguished in 2021 with 19 international awards, and also the Casa da Ínsua wine, awarded in the most demanding wine competitions in the world.

In the area of Tourism, Turvisa stands out, which manages a universe of hotel units such as the Montebelo Indy Maputo Congress Hotel and the Montebelo Girassol Maputo Hotel and also the emblematic Montebelo Gorongosa Lodge & Safari, among others, which the Montebelo Milibangalala Bay Resort now joins.