A contribuição do turismo para a economia moçambicana

Abstract

0 Tourism is a constantly growing sector all over the world. It is an international and highly competitive business. For countries with few resources (scarcity of foreign exchange), as is the case of Mozambique, the economic reasons for the development of tourism are stronger because there are few alternatives and almost no availability of human and physical resources to intensively develop the industry and agriculture. Tourism has great potential to contribute to the expansion of demand for goods and services from local production, also covering small producers and can contribute to the expansion of employment opportunities for the majority of the population. Tourism activity is an alternative for reducing regional disparities between regions of a country. It is an activity that is related to various branches of economic and non-economic activities, or in other words it is an activity of great importance, whose breadth drags a series of benefits and costs that require an integral evaluation that allows for enhancing some and attenuating others . It should be noted that, although it can be argued that tourism offers an important alternative form of economic activity, it should be considered as a component of a broader set of development initiatives, within the scope of any economic system. This is not to say that, under certain circumstances, tourism cannot be the largest source of income and employment in a region, but rather that the impact and role of tourism will vary in each of them.