Mozambique intends to attract, in the near future, a greater flow of tourists, thus contributing to the maintenance and creation of new jobs.
In this context, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism created the Clean & Safe Seal, a mechanism to certify that the entities and services of the culture and tourism sector that directly or indirectly intervene in the area strictly comply with the health protocol validated by the Ministry of Health.
The deputy minister of Culture and Tourism, Fredson Bacar, said recently in Maputo that the Clean & Safe Seal is recognised as a brand that came to convey comfort and safety not only to customers, but also to tourists, in the context of Covid-19 in the country.
“We have seen falls in the sector in the order of 95%, which contributed to a substantial reduction of the economic indicators of reference in the areas of accommodation, restaurants and similar, as well as the volume of investments and revenues,” he said.
The governor also said that, in the period from January to March 2021, the country registered 93,803 international visitors against 503,933 in the same period last year, which represents a decrease of 81.4 percent.
According to Fredson Bacar, international tourism receipts stood at about US$25.74 million, a drop of about 51.5 per cent from the same period in 2020.
“It is our perspective, as a Government, as well as the service providers that operate in the area of hospitality and tourism, to boost the sector again, opening the doors to receive visitors, obeying, inescapably, the protocols issued by the Health authorities,” he stressed.
For Fredson Bacar, it is in this path that the Government, in partnership with the private sector, started efforts to initiate in March the national vaccination campaign.
“The immunisation emerges as one of the basic precepts for the resumption of all economic activity, as it has continuously proved to be a powerful tool in controlling the pandemic in various parts of the world,” he said.
The source noted that the Covid-19 pandemic had had harmful effects on different sectors of activity, particularly the culture and tourism sector, which recorded a significant reduction in production levels and the workforce.
